{"id":2648,"date":"2025-12-25T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:47:01","slug":"8th-mgms-frank-blaney-award-prof-phillipe-schwaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/8th-mgms-frank-blaney-award-prof-phillipe-schwaller\/","title":{"rendered":"8th MGMS Frank Blaney Award: Prof Phillipe Schwaller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The MGMS is delighted to announce that the 2025 Frank Blaney Award has been made to Professor Philippe Schwaller<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Schwaller_pic.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2646 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Schwaller_pic.jpg?resize=228%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Schwaller_pic.jpg?w=425&amp;ssl=1 425w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Schwaller_pic.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Philippe is Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry, in the Laboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence (LIAC), which he established in 2022 at EPFL (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne) in Switzerland. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Bern and has spent time working at IBM&#8217;s research centre in Zurich. Philippe&#8217;s team at EPFL focus their work on AI-accelerated discovery and synthesis of new molecules, both in life and materials sciences, and with an emphasis on sustainability &#8211; they have created the ChemCrow chemistry agent which integrates LLMs (Large Language Models) with a collection of specialised chemical tools. Other topic areas include high-throughput experimentation, catalysis, and open-source software resources.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">You can learn more about Professor Schwaller and LIAC&#8217;s work at\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/schwallergroup.github.io\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fschwallergroup.github.io%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cshozeb.haider%40ucl.ac.uk%7C883cb6f424704be7be1508de407b05fe%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639019094301608114%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=D90htGForLerEHAToPd7z2HSXPu%2BfGeNioi0yaXq87c%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/schwallergroup.github.io\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Many\u00a0<span class=\"markpqaanvq28 uM2yb\" data-markjs=\"true\">congratulations<\/span>\u00a0to Philippe!<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MGMS is delighted to announce that the 2025 Frank Blaney Award has been made to Professor Philippe Schwaller \u00a0 \u00a0 Philippe is Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry, in the Laboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence (LIAC), which he established in 2022 at EPFL (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne) in Switzerland. He was awarded his PhD&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/8th-mgms-frank-blaney-award-prof-phillipe-schwaller\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8th MGMS Frank Blaney Award: Prof Phillipe Schwaller<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","pmpro-has-access","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91jzT-GI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}