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Upcoming events

 

General Meetings

General meetings take place on the last week of the months, and the day rotates every month from Monday to Friday. 

31 July 2024, Wednesday, 6 pm CET

29 August 2024, Thursday, 6 pm CET

27 September 2024, Friday, 6 pm CET

28 October 2024, Monday, 6 pm CET

26 November 2024, Tuesday, 6 pm CET

 

Board Members Meetings

16 August 2024, Friday, 6 pm CET

20 September 2024, Friday, 6 pm CET

25 October 2024, Friday, 6 pm CET

22 November 2024, Friday, 6 pm CET

13 December 2024, Friday, 6 pm CET

 

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)

Section Board Members meeting: 7 May 2024, 13 June 2024, 17 July 2024

General Members meeting: 4 June 2024, 24 June 2024

 

 

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

Dr. Sofia Garcia Fracaro

Section Role: Section Chair

Location: Germany

Affiliation: Merck KGaA, DECHEMA.  

Area of work: Industry, Smart Manufacturing, AR/VR Training. 

Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/sofia-garcia-fracaro/

About me: All about our board - Sofia


Silvie Mueller

Dr. Silvie Müller

Section Role: Section Vice Chair

Location: Germany 

Affiliation: Merck Group

Area of work:

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silviemueller/

About me: All about our board - Silvie


Florencia Arrosio

Dr. Florencia Arrosio

Section Role: Task Force Handbook 101 Chemical Societies

Location: Germany

Affiliation: Diversey

Area of work:

Contacthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/florencia-arrosio/

About meAll about our board - Florencia


Dr. Sara Marchini

Section Role: Social Media Task Force Lead

Location: Germany

Affiliation: TU Dresden

Area of work: Thermal Separations, Reaction Engineering, Reactor Modelling, Didactic of Chemical Engineering

Contacthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-marchini-dresden/

About meAll about our board - Sara

 


Agnese Musacchio

Section Role: Task Force Social Media & ECCE 2025 Youth Programme

Location: Italy

Affiliation: The Polytechnic University of Turin

Area of work:

Leadership roles: President of Young Italian Chemical Engineering Association (Giovani AIDIC)

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnese-musacchio-398085213/

About meAll about our board - Agnese

 


Celia Pedro

Section Role: Task Force ECCE 2025 Youth Programme 

Location: Portugal

Affiliation: Eco-Oil

Area of work:

Leadership roles: President of the Group of Young Engineers (GJE)

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/celialagopedro/

About me


Morgane Poser

Section Role

Location: France

Affiliation: IMT Mines Albi

Area of work:

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgane-poser-960b3b140/

About meAll about our board - Morgane


Anna Vanluchene

Section Role

Location: Belgium

Affiliation: Ghent University

Area of work:

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-vanluchene-03819947/

About me:  All about our board - Anna


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Alper Koyuncu

Section Role: Task Force Spotlight Talk

Location: Turkey

Affiliation: Middle East Technical University

Contacthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alperkoyuncu/

About me


Chioma Udeozor

Section Role

Location: United Kingdom

Affiliation: Nepic

Area of work:

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chioma-rita-udeozor/

About me


Section General Members

 

Name  Affiliation, Location Area of work
Aldwin Lois Galvan Cara KU Leuven, NL  
Alexandr Zubov University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, CZ  
Andrea Dobri Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, GER  
Andres David Pina Martinez ENSIC-University of Lorraine, FRA  
Antonio D'ambrosio Campus Bio Medico University of Rome, IT  
Bianca Thoms kjVI group of VDI-GVC, GER  
Cláudio Rocha University of Porto, PT  
Daniel Albrecht University Duisburg Essen, GER  
Emanuele Moioli Villigen PSI, CH  
Filippo Bisotti SINTEF, NOR  
Grzegorz Bernacki Politechnika Warszawska, PL  
Ilaria Ceteroni Institute of Chemical Technology (UPV-CSIC), ES  
Jens Friedland University of Ulm, GER  
Kristina Zentel TU Darmstadt, GER  
Kseniya Papchenko University of Edinburgh, UK  
Laura Grindey Eternis, UK  
Luigi Piero Di Bonito Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", IT  
Maria Papathanasiou Imperial College London, UK  
Mario Luca Nardella Università di Pisa, IT  
Monika Klimek Politechnika Warszawska, PL  
Nikodem Dabrowski Politechnika Warszawska, PL  
Patrik Furda Slovak University of Technology, SK  
Paul Paunas Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, GER  
Sijin Saji Xampla, UK  
Ulderico DiCaprio KU Leuven, NL  

Section Former Members

 

Name  Affiliation, Location
Carla Esch RWTH Aachen University, GER
Gabriele Verrecchia

Haleon, IT

Guillaume Hopsort

Paul Sabatier University, FR

Joseph Agnew Nouryon, SWE
Laura Pirro Yara International, NL
Laura Grindey Eternis Fine Chemicals, UK
Maria Gonzales Martinez IMT Mines Albi, FR
Oyin Solala Thames Water, UK

Paul Jenkinson

Metropolitan, UK

Awards and Grants

 

Excellence Awards

Calls are open for the following Excellence Awards 2025:
- Process Safety

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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.

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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

> Application Form

All documents must be sent to Contact AND Contact.

Deadline for submission of applications:

10 September 2024 for:

10 December 2024 for:

Eligibility

The conditions of eligibility to the Grant competition are as follow: 

  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. the applicant agrees to publicise the relevant EFCE event through social media, such as blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter and other relevant media.
  4. 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.