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The award is a sign of recognition and career encouragement to the new generation of organic chemists.
Thieme Chemistry has awarded the "Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2023" to Manuel Nappi, junior scientist at Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS). The award is presented every year to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career as assistant or junior professors.
"It is a recognition of the results achieved so far, but also a challenge. It encourages me to continue doing cutting-edge chemistry" remarks Nappi. His work focuses on using visible light to activate and valorize organic feedstocks in synthetic chemistry: "The mild reaction conditions make our methodologies also compatible with biological macromolecules such as DNA and thus particularly attractive for medicinal chemistry".
The award is intended to be a sign of recognition and career encouragement to the new generation of organic chemists. The awardees are selected exclusively by the editorial board members of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, and SYNFACTS who constantly watch out for promising, young individuals working in chemical synthesis and catalysis or closely related areas of organic chemistry.
After joining different renowned international laboratories, Manuel Nappi joined CiQUS in 2020 as a junior scientist to develop his independent line of research: "Being part of CiQUS is a great opportunity for me. It is an excellent research center with high level facilities, a competitive and multidisciplinary scientific environment, and a very dedicated management and research support technicians". This is not the first time that CiQUS investigators obtain this recognition. In the 2015 edition the "Thieme Chemistry Journals Award" was achieved twice, when the members of the editorial board awarded Martín Fañanás and Moisés Guiliás.
