Karl Fischer, emeritus professor of crystallography at the Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken), passed away on 29 October 2022 at the age of 97 in active retirement. It was just one year ago, when he had been awarded the prestigious Carl Hermann Medal by the German Society of Crystallography (DGK) for […]
The deadline for the application to the 58th course of the International School of Crystallography “Structural Drug Design 2023: Biology, Chemistry and Computers” is Wednesday 30th November. The purpose of the course is to provide the students with: a) an overview of the current structural and biophysical techniques used in […]
HTCC5 will focus on experimental advances in macromolecular crystallography. The workshop will take place at the Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Conference Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia from the 16th – 21st April 2023. Topics will include crystallisation, processing, databases, and visualisation. Registration will open on 16th October 2022. The early bird registration […]
ECS8, the 2023 European Crystallographic School will take place in person from the 18th – 24th June. The school will be held at the BESSY II electron storage ring, operated by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. The focus of the school will cover the various applications of X-ray crystallography to powders, small […]
The AFRAMED International Research Network (IRN) was officially inaugurated on 31 August 2022 in Nancy, France. The objective of the AFRAMED network, led by Claude Lecomte, emeritus professor at the Laboratory of Crystallography, Magnetic Resonance and Modelling (CRM2 – CNRS/University of Lorraine), is to connect a diffractometer from a French […]
By Dritan Siliqi, Institute of Crystallography, CNR, Bari, Italy. The European Crystallographic Association, formally established at the meeting of Lisbon in 1997, elected its first president of the Association, prof Carmelo Giacovazzo (ECA president 1997 – 2000). He was also the Director of the Institute of Crystallography, CNR in Bari, […]
The Tenth Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize (labelled ‘2021’) of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) is awarded to Dr Ellen Fogh from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. The prize commitee awards the Bertaut Prize to Ellen Fogh for her excellent achievements […]
The twelfth Max Perutz Prize of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) is awarded to Emeritus Professor William Clegg from the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. William (Bill) Clegg has made a tremendous impact in crystallographic science and education during a career spanning nearly five decades starting […]
The Alajos Kálmán Prize preserves the memory of the late Alajos Kálmán, an eminent scientist in the field of chemical crystallography. The Prize is established by the Hungarian Chemical Society and is endorsed by European Crystallographic Association (ECA). This year the prize goes to Professor Éric Collet from the Institute […]
The Eleventh Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) is awarded to Dr Lukáš Gajdos from the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. The prize is awarded to Lukáš Gajdos in recognition of his exceptional research on the characterisation of […]
The year 2022 brings challenges of political and economic instability, an ongoing virus pandemic, and military confrontation on European soil; despite this gloomy context, the European Crystallographic Association has good reason to celebrate. As ECA, we are looking back on 50 years of European Crystallographic Meetings and at the formal […]
The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) is joining a large and growing number of European and international research organizations in condemning the acts of aggression by the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the military invasion of its independent neighbor, Ukraine, a national member of ECA. Our thoughts are with […]
The 9th International Charge Density Meeting will take place in Aarhus, Denmark, during the days 12-16th of June 2022. The study of charge densities is a central part of quantum crystallography, and the focus of this conference is to find interfaces and applications for quantum crystallography in hot fields such […]
