Upcoming events
7 May 2024, Tuesday, 6 pm CET: Section Board Members meeting
4 June 2024, Tuesday, 6 pm CET: General Members meeting
13 June 2024, Thursday, 6 pm CET: Section Board Members meeting
24 June 2024, Monday, 6 pm CET: General Members meeting
17 July 2024, Wednesday, 6 pm CET: Section Board Members meeting
22 July 2024, Monday, 6 pm CET: General Members meeting
recurring meetings in different subgroups
History
08 April 2022: EFCE Executive Board approved the Preparatory Committee of the new Section
21 August 2022: EFCE Executive Board approved the Memorandum of the new Section
27 September 2022: First official meeting of the new Section 'Early Career Chemical Engineers', launching plans for Spotlight Talks in April and for ECCE&ECAB conference in September 2023.
19 October 2022: Finalized Memorandum (incl. Erratum) of the new Section is published
02 November 2022: First meeting of Section General Members recurring last Wednesday every second month and shifting the meeting of Section Board members to first Thursday every month
08 November 2022: Publication of Section Logo (file available here)
31 May 2023: Spotlight Talk on Open Science organized by Early Career ChemEng Section! (Flyer, Recording on YouTube)
05 September 2023: Election of first official Chair of the Section
17 - 21 September 2023: ECCE14&ECAB7 in Berlin, EFCE Event No. 782
- 18 September 2023: Pubquiz in Berlin
- 19 September 2023: Inauguration meeting
- 20 September 2023: Plenary Lecture of Early Career Awardee Maria
10 November 2023: Section Board Members meeting
29 November 2023: Section General Members meeting. Successful general meeting with 21 participants. We welcomed 10 new general members!
27 March 2024: Celebration meeting: 6 month anniversary since Inauguration (slide deck available here)
Mission
We are the Early Careers Chemical Engineers Section of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE). This section aims to inspire, inform, upskill and influence our community members to choose a lifelong career in chemical engineering.
We do this by:
- Advocating and showcasing the importance of this profession in the advancement of society.
- Promoting top-level chemical engineering science developments,
- Sharing innovations in the field,
- Informing about new strategic technologies,
- Discussing interdisciplinary items
- And much more!
We intend for our activities to help forge an active early career community for our members to develop their present and future capabilities. We do this by bridging the gap for graduates stepping into industry and bringing together the wide range of diverse experiences and interests of Early Career Chemical Engineers through interdisciplinary meetings, conferences and workshops.
Section Board Members
![Sofia Garcia Fracaro Sofia Garcia Fracaro](/Scientific+Groups/Early+Career+Chemical+Engineers/Members-height-992-width-990/_/Sofia Garcia Fracaro.jpg)
Dr. Sofia Garcia Fracaro
Section Role: Section Chair
Location: Germany
Affiliations: Merck KGaA, DECHEMA.
Area of work: Industry, Smart Manufacturing, AR/VR training.
Dr. Silvie Müller
Section Role: Section Vice Chair
Location: Germany
Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/silviemueller/
![Florencia Arrosio Florencia Arrosio](/Scientific+Groups/Early+Career+Chemical+Engineers/Members-height-480-width-373/_/Florencia Arrosio.png)
Dr. Florencia Arrosio
Section Role: Task Force Handbook 101 Chemical Societies
Location: Germany
Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/florencia-arrosio/
Dr. Sara Marchini
Section Role: Social Media Task Force Lead
Location: Germany
Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/sara-marchini-dresden/
Agnese Musacchio
Section Role: Task Force Social Media & ECCE 2025 Youth Programme
Location: Italy
Leadership roles: President of Young Italian Chemical Engineering Association (Giovani AIDIC)
Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/agnese-musacchio-398085213/
Celia Pedro
Section Role: Task Force ECCE 2025 Youth Programme
Location: Portugal
Leadership roles: President of the Group of Young Engineers (GJE)
Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/celialagopedro/
Morgane Poser
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Anna Vanluchene
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Alper Koyuncu
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Chioma Udeozor
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Section General Members
Alexandr Zubov | University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, CZ | Section member |
Sijin Saji | Xampla, UK | Section member |
Ilaria Ceteroni | Institute of Chemical Technology (UPV-CSIC), ES | Section member |
Gabriele Verrecchia | Haleon, IT | Section member |
Laura Pirro | Yara International, NL | Section member |
Paul Jenkinson | Metropolitan, UK | Section member |
Carla Esch | RWTH Aachen, GER | Section member |
Daniel Albrecht | University Duisburg Essen, GER | Section member |
Joseph Agnew | Nouryon, SWE | Section member |
Kristina Zentel | TU Darmstadt, GER | Section member |
Laura Grindey | Eternis, UK | Section member |
Andres David Pina Martinez | ENSIC-University of Lorraine, FRA | Section member |
Patrik Furda | Slovak University of Technology, SK | Section member |
Luigi Piero Di Bonito | Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", IT | Section member |
Bianca Thoms | kjVI group of VDI-GVC, GER | Section member |
Kseniya Papchenko | University of Edinburgh, UK | Section member |
Emanuele Moioli | Villigen PSI, CH | Section member |
Mario Luca Nardella | Università di Pisa, IT | Section member |
Grzegorz Bernacki | Politechnika Warszawska, PL | Section member |
Monika Klimek | Politechnika Warszawska, PL | Section member |
Nikodem Dabrowski | Politechnika Warszawska, PL | Section member |
Paul Paunas | Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, GER | Section member |
Jens Friedland | Universität Ulm, GER | Section member |
Awards and Grants
Excellence Awards
Student Mobility Award
The next call for applications will open in September 2024 to be presented at ECCE14 & ECAB8 in September 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal.
EFCE Travel Grant
The EFCE Travel Grant provides support to early career members of EFCE or member societies to enable them to present their work at various EFCE events and to develop important networks to further their careers. The grant applications will be evaluated by the EFCE Early Career Section and it will also provide further opportunities to early career colleagues to engage in spreading the awareness of these events through social media.
Note: Early Career Chemical Engineers are defined as those who are working towards or have obtained at least a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and have less than approx. 8 years of relevant professional experience in case of a master’s degree or less than approx. 4 years of relevant professional experience in the case of a Ph.D. title.
The Grant shall be used to cover part or all of travel and accommodation costs for ECCE conferences and other significant EFCE events and will be paid only on production of relevant receipts.
Only the nominated applicant is the Grant holder. Nominated Grants cannot be transferred to a third person.
The Grant is to be spent for the attendance to the EFCE event it was awarded for. The Grant cannot be delayed or put on hold.
Call for applications 2024
for EFCE events held until the end of July 2025
The call for applications for the Travel Grant of up to 600 EUR each is open.
Applications should include:
- application form
- a 2 min (max!) video from the applicants, telling in a few words why he/she should selected
All documents must be sent to Contact AND Contact.
Deadline for submission of applications:
10 September 2024 for:
- Global Congress of Chemical Engineering 2024
- 5th European Forum on New Technologies: Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering
10 December 2024 for:
- Loss Prevention 2025
- 17th Chemical and Process Engineering Conference - ICheaP17 (website will open soon)
- Eurodrying 2025
Eligibility
The conditions of eligibility to the Grant competition are as follow:
- the applicant is a member of the Early Career Chemical Engineers Section of EFCE, of any early career chemical engineers group of EFCE member societies (or is actively working on becoming a member of such a group). If such a group does not exist, they are a member of the relevant EFCE member society.
- the applicant has submitted an abstract for the relevant EFCE event (with EFCE logo) or is invited to present at such an event.
(Exception: European Forum on New Technologies – EFNT and other EFCE events not requiring an abstract submission) - the applicant agrees to publicise the relevant EFCE event through social media, such as blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter and other relevant media.
- normally the applicant has not received another EFCE Travel Grant in the same same year.
Selection and Presentation
The Grant proposals will be judged by the Selection Committee solely based on the quality of applications provided through the application form and video and the need for the financial support.
The awardee will be notified by e-mail and announced on the EFCE website, its social media and in the EFCE newsletter.
The awardee will be presented with a certificate confirming the award of the Grant at the relevant EFCE event they are attending.
Details of the contents of the application will be treated as confidential and handling of the information will be in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. De-personalized general information may be disclosed for publicity reasons.