Solvation Science Student Challenge (S3C)
Together with RESOLV, explore how solvent molecules influence the selectivity of a reaction!
Take part in RESOLV’s mission to overcome the traditional view of solvent molecules as passive spectators and to consider them as active reactants instead. Use literature research, your knowledge and your creativity to derive a new model that is able to reliably predict the selectivity of a reaction and also takes the influence of the solvent into account.
✅ Challenge completed 🏆 Rewards EUR 3,600 prize pool + partnership programs with RESOLV + exclusive events🌎 Scope International - open to students, PhD students and Postdocs from all over the world
Cluster of Excellence RESOLV
The Cluster of Excellence RESOLV, starting in November 2012, launched Solvation Science as a new interdisciplinary field of research that provides a much-needed unifying framework for the understanding of solvation processes. The majority of chemical reactions, including many that are central to important industrial processes, and virtually all biological processes, take place in solution. RESOLV transcends the traditional view that considered solvents as being inert media in which molecular processes take place. The paradigm underlying RESOLV is to consider solvent molecules as active species, rather than just being passive spectators. Future challenges in Solvation Science are to tackle chemical processes far beyond homogeneous bulk phases, thermal equilibria, and ambient conditions. In its second funding period, starting from 2019, RESOLV takes up these emerging challenges and focus its research on: local solvent fluctuations in heterogeneous systems (Area I), solvent control of chemical dynamics and reactivity (Area II) and solvation under extreme conditions (Area III).
RESOLV provides a science-driven integrated graduate program in Solvation Science from BSc directly to PhD for the next generation of researchers in academia and industry, fosters entrepreneurship, promotes institutionalized opportunities for Early Career Researcher groups, takes action to provide an environment which retains and supports a diverse range of talents in science, and sets up an innovative transfer ecosystem to facilitate the transfer of basic science into key technologies.
RESOLV receives funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2033 – 390677874.
Evonik Operations GmbH
Evonik Operations GmbH supports the Solvation Science Student Challenge as a donor.
Gesellschaft der Freunde der Ruhr-Universität Bochum e.V.
The "Gesellschaft der Freunde der Ruhr-Universität Bochum e.V." also supports the Solvation Science Student Challenge as a supporting partner.
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