Bruker Prize Lecture 2024
Since 1986 Bruker BioSpin has generously sponsored an annual lectureship and prize, given to a scientist who has made a major contribution to the application of ESR spectroscopy in chemical or biological systems. The ESR Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to announce that the 2024 Bruker Prize will be awarded to Professor Songi Han.
The RSC ESR committee is delighted to announce the award of the Bruker Prize 2024 to Professor Songi Han for her contributions to the development and application of Magnetic Resonance techniques, in particular her symbiotic and innovative approach to a seamless marriage of EPR and NMR methodology, to allow bespoke control and transfer of both electron and nuclear spin polarization and consequently exquisite and exploitable hyperpolarization.
The 2024 Bruker lecture will be followed by the conference banquet. The list of previous Bruker Prize winners is available here.
Bruker Thesis Prize 2024
The ESR Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Bruker Corporation are pleased to announce the winner of the 10th Bruker ESR Thesis Prize is Dr Fabian Hecker. As winner of the 2024 competition Dr Hecker has accepted an invitation to give a prize lecture at the 57th Annual International Meeting of the RSC ESR spectroscopy group, at University of Warwick, 8th–10th April 2024. For those who cannot attend the meeting we also hope to make the talk available after the event on our YouTube channel.
Dr Fabian Hecker completed his doctoral thesis, titled “17O Hyperfine Spectroscopy to Investigate Water Binding to Organic Radicals”, at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, under the supervision of Prof. Marina Bennati. Our expert reviewers highlighted the outstanding depth of his thesis, commenting on the inclusion of “a detailed analysis of all aspects, from experimental considerations to modelling and simulation approaches”, the “meticulous discussion and analysis” and praising the provision of “explicit guidelines for the best approach in similar future studies.” The thesis beautifully presented a significant body of experimental data including different types of experiments at multiple frequencies, and on both model systems and a series of trapped intermediates in ribonucleotide reductase. This was supported by theoretical developments to facilitate the challenging interpretation of the Mims ENDOR blind spots associated with the I = 5/2 system. We look forward to hearing about this work in the thesis prize lecture which will take place on Tuesday 9th April 2024.
We are grateful to Bruker for their continued support of this prize. The prize lecture will this year be followed by the Bruker reception, celebrating 10 years of the Bruker Thesis Prize.
Details of past winners are available here. Please join our mail list to be notified when applications are opened for the next Bruker Thesis Prize.