Upcoming events
8 March 2024, 6 pm CET: Board Members meeting
27 March 2024, 6 pm CET: General Members meeting (6 month anniversary since Inauguration :-))
12 April 2024, 6 pm CET: Section Board Members meeting
24 April 2024, 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 (can be found 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!
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 members
| Name | Affiliations | Section Role |
| Sofia Garcia Fracaro | Merck KGaA, GER | Section Chair |
| Silvie Müller | Merck KGaA, GER | Section Vice-Chair |
| Morgane Poser | IMT Mines Albi-Carmaux, FR | Section Board member |
| Florencia Arrosio | Diversey, GER | Section Board member |
| Alper Koyuncu | Middle East Technical University, TUR | Section Board member |
| Sara Marchini | Technische Universität Dresden, GER | Section Board member |
| Sijin Saji | Xampla, UK | Section Board member |
| Agnese Musacchio | University of Pisa and AIDIC Giovani, IT | Section Board member |
| Chioma Udeozor | NEPIC, UK | Section Board member |
| Alexandr Zubov | University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, CZ | Section Board member |
| Anna Vanluchene | Ghent University, BE | Section Board member |
| Célia Pedro | Eco-Oil, PT | Section Board 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 |