Dream Chemistry Award 2025 Final – Schedule
The Scientific Committee has selected the most outstanding projects from this year’s submissions and five excellent young scientists from Singapore, Austria, Israel, the Netherlands, and Czechia will now have the opportunity to present their visions in person during the contest’s final, which will take place at IOCB Prague on 1–2 December 2025, and compete for the cash prize of EUR 10,000 and an iconic trophy.
Day 1: December 1
09:30–09:40 Opening
09:40–10:25 Finalist 1 – Xianbiao Fu (National University of Singapore): Electrochemical N2 Activation for Sustainable Ammonia Synthesis: Enabling the Agriculture-to-Energy Transition
10:25–11:10 Finalist 2 – Esther Heid (TU Wien): Reactivity Without Borders: A Multilingual AI for Chemistry
11:10–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:15 Finalist 3 – Muhammad Jbara (Tel Aviv University): Engineering Synthetic DNA-Binding Miniproteins to Modulate Gene Expression
12:15–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–14:15 Finalist 4 – Michael M. Lerch (Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen): A Chemical Operating System for Robots
14:15–15:00 Finalist 5 – Vít Svoboda (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague): From Molecular Chirality to Petahertz Quantum Computing
Day 2: December 2
10:00–10:10 Award ceremony
10:10–11:00 Winner’s talk on their research
11:00–11:50 Guest Lecture – Prof. Marko Mihovilovic (TU Wien): Adventures at the chemistry-biology interface – three decades of dream reactions in green chemistry
11:50–11:55 Closing
