György Keglevich Named Among the Chemistry Europe Fellows

György Keglevich, a professor at the Faculty of Chemical and Bioengineering at BME, has recognized as one of the 22 new Chemistry Europe Fellows. The award, granted by the Chemistry Europe Board of Trustees back in February, was presented to the professor at the May general assembly of the Hungarian member organization, the Hungarian Chemical Society (MKE).

Chemistry Europe was founded in 1995 on the initiative of the German Chemical Society; its first journal, Chemistry: A European Journal, was also launched at that time. Today, it brings together 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries. Since 2015, it has awarded its most prestigious honor every two years to individuals who, through their enduring commitment and scientific work, have contributed to strengthening the federation’s mission.

Among previous recipients of the Chemistry Europe Fellow title are three Nobel laureates, namely Ben Feringa of the Netherlands, Jean-Marie Lehn of France, and the British-American Sir Fraser Stoddart.

György Keglevich served as chair of the awards committee at the Hungarian Chemical Society (MKE), was a member of the Executive Committee for three terms, and served as chair of the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Section. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian Journal of Chemistry for more than two decades and has served as chair of the editorial board for the past three years. Every two years (this year for the third time), he organizes the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Conference in Hungary. A recipient of the Károly Than Award, he publishes regularly in the journals of Chemistry Europe.

The complete list of this year's honorees:

Lidia Armelao, University of Padova, Italy
Wim De Borggraeve, KU Leuven, Belgium
Catherine S. J. Cazin, University of Ghent, Belgium
Antonio M. Echavarren, ICIQ, Spain
Gilles Gasser, PSLU, France
Joanna Gościańska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel, FU Berlin, Germany
Shigeyoshi Inoue, TU München, Germany
Denis Jacquemin, University of Nantes, France
Petra de Jongh, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Keglevich György, BME, Hungary
Wolfgang Kroutil, University of Graz, Austria
Israel Fernández López, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Inna Melnyk, Slovenská Akadémia Vied, Slovakia
Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Adriaan J. Minnaard, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Jean-Christophe Monbaliu, University of Liege, Belgium
Konstantinos Neohoritis, University of Crete, Greece
Andreas Orthaber, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Petr Štěpnička, Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic
Tom Ward, University of Basel, Switzerland

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