SBIC Early Career Award

The <link http: sbichem.org _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) annually awards an Early Career Award that is presented to an early career scientist (no more than 15 years post-Ph.D. at the nomination deadline) who has already accomplished distinguished research in biological inorganic chemistry.

The SBIC was founded in 1995 and established to advance research and education in the field of biological inorganic chemistry.

We are very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2015 SBIC Early Career Award is <link internal-link internal link in current>Professor Serena DeBeer, now director of the department 'Inorganic Spectroscopy' at the MPI CEC.

Professor DeBeer received the award plaque at a special ceremony in Beijing, China at the 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC17) that took place on July 20th-24th, 2015.

Prof. DeBeer joined the conference also as a plenary speaker, as well as the MPI CEC Director <link internal-link internal link in current>Prof. Wolfgang Lubitz.

More detailed information about Prof. DeBeer and her research group can be found <link internal-link internal link in current>here.

In 2009 Prof. Frank Neese, then working at the university of Bonn, was honourd the SBIC Early Career Award.

Now a director at the MPI CEC, Prof. Frank Neese already was a well known and highly respected scientist in the biological inorganic chemistry community in 2009. SBIC president Trevor Hambley wrote a <link http: download.springer.com static pdf _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>note about the "most deserving winner" Frank Neese.

To learn more about Prof. Neese, his research at the MPI CEC you can check his <link internal-link internal link in current>profile.