The DSM Science & Technology Awards pre-selection committees for the Switzerland, Austria, Northeastern France and Southern Germany met to select three finalists each from the nominations received. The lucky ones are:
Switzerland
Jonathan P. Brand, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL (supervisor: Prof. J. Waser)
Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich (supervisor: Prof. E. M. Carreira)
Georgios A. Sotiriou, ETH Zurich (supervisor: Prof. S. E. Pratsinis)
Austria
Michael Karbiener, University of Graz (supervisor: Prof. R. Stollberger)
Victoria Klang, University of Vienna (supervisor: Prof. C. Valenta)
Jörg Schrittwieser, University of Graz (supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil)
Northeastern France
Anne-Caroline Chany, University of Haute-Alsace (supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Blanchard)
Anne-Laure Fameau, L'institut national de la recherche agronomique (supervisor: Prof. J-P. Douliez)
Katarzyna Gorska, University of Strassburg (supervisor: Prof. N. Winssinger)
Southern Germany
Christina A. Kuttruff, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München (supervisor: Dr. D. Trauner)
Ruth Lohwasser, University of Bayreuth (supervisor: Prof. M. Thelekkat)
Christoph Rose, Universität Regensburg (supervisor: Dr. K. Zeitler)