08.45

Opening of the symposium's reception desk & Welcome Coffee

09.30

Opening of the 14. Freiburger Symposium
Address of welcome by
Dr. Roger Marti, HTA-FR
Dr. Bernhard Urwyler – Board Director of DIAC
Dr. Remo Gamboni – Introduction to the program

09.45

Optimization of Catalysts with virtual High Throughput Screenings, Genetic Algorithms, and Machine Learning
Dr. Marek P. Checinski, Founder and CEO of CreativeQuantum GmbH, Berlin, Germany

10.30

Tackling Challenges in Industrially Relevant Homogeneous Catalysis:  The Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa), an Industrial−Academic Partnership
Dr. Thomas Schaub, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany

11.15

Olfactory Pleasures: How to Access Kg-Quantities of a Thiadiazole without Lawesson Reagent?
Dr. Gabriel Schäfer, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Allschwil, Switzerland

12.00

Lunch break and Poster Session

14.00

Use of Catalysis in Fine Chemical Industry – From Research to Manufacturing – Case Study
Dr. Bastien Monnerat, Syngenta Crop Protection, Monthey, Switzerland

14.45

Biocatalysis in the Flavor & Fragrance Industry
Dr. Fredi Brühlmann, Firmenich SA, Geneva, Switzerland

15.30

Coffee break

16.00

(Swiss) Innovations in Selective Heterogeneous Hydrogenations – from the 1950s to the Present Day
Dr. Jonathan Medlock, DSM Nutritional Products, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

16.45

Keynote Lecture: Catalysis  -  an important tool in Siegfried’s offering
Dr. Jürgen Roos, CSO, Member Executive Committee Siegfried AG, Zofingen, Switzerland

19.00 

Aperitif and Symposium Dinner

08.30

Opening of the symposium's reception desk & coffee

09.00

Sandmeyer Award Lecture 2019 
Arsenic and other Geogenic Contaminants in Groundwater – a Global Challenge
Dr. Andreas Voegelin and Dr. Stephan Hug, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland

10.00

Sandmeyer Award Lecture 2018
Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Strigolactone and Strigolactam Derivatives for Potential Crop Enhancement Applications in Modern Agriculture
Dr. Alain De Mesmaeker and Dr. Raymonde Fonné-Pfister, Syngenta Crop Protection Research, Stein, Switzerland

10.45

Coffee break

11.00

Enzyme Catalysis in the Synthesis of Ipatasertib, AKT Inhibitor
Dr. Hans Iding, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland

11.45

Application of Transition-metal Catalysis and Biocatalysis as State-of-the-art Technologies in the Manufacture of a Key Intermediate of Entresto
Dr. Florian Kleinbeck, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

12.30

Lunch break

14.00

Catalysis at Johnson Matthey: On the Cost Effective Use of Catalysis for Complex Synthesis
Dr. Antonio Zanotti-Gerosa, Johnson Matthey, Cambridge, UK

14.45

Engineering of 3D Printed Catalytic Reactors
Prof. Simon Kuhn, KU Leuven, Belgium

15.30

Catalysis Engineering for Sustainable Technologies
Prof. Dr. Javier Pérez-Ramirez, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

16.15

Closure of the Symposium