The 23rd European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC‐2025) in Copenhagen

The 23rd in the series of “European Symposium on Organic Chemistry” (ESOC) was held at Tivoli Congress Center in Copenhagen from June 29th to July 3rd of 2025. ESOC was held for the first time in Cologne, Germany, in 1979, and has since been held approximately every other year. This year, Christian Marcus Pedersen and Michael Pittelkow from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen hosted the event, and there were 619 registered participants from 49 countries. There were 13 plenary lectures, 13 invited lectures, and 21 “oral communications” that had been selected on the basis of applications. There were two poster sessions with a total of 350 posters. A total of six poster prizes were awarded, two awarded by the attendees via the app and four awarded by the poster prize committee. Among the total of 47 lectures, the “Patai‐Rappoport lecture award” was presented by Eric Jacobsen from Harvard University, “Dr. The Margaret Faul Women in Chemistry award” lectures given by Franziska Schoenebeck from Aachen University (Academia Award), and Dani Schultz from Merck (Industry Award). EuChemS awarded the “Award for research 2024” to Ilan Marek from Technion and the ‘Young investigator award 2024′ to Aurélien de la Torre from d'Orsay. The EuChemS Award for ‘Award for service 2024′ was awarded to Berit Olofsson from Stockholm University.