The 4th Crønstedt Award
The FEZA Board announces the call for the Cronstedt Award for outstanding contributions to science and technology related to zeolites, ordered mesoporous materials, metal-organic frameworks or other porous materials.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE
Each nomination should include following documents, all digitalized in pdf format:
- A short description of the contribution and justification of its impact (up to 2 pages)
- A short CV (up to 1 page)
- Copies of up to 5 principal publications
The nominations for the Cronstedt Award should be submitted till March 31 2026 17h CET by e-mail to: feza.award@feza-online.eu, with a subject Cronstedt Award.
SELECTION PROCEDURE
The selection of the Cronstedt Award winner will be proposed to the FEZA Board by a Selection Committee, nominated by the FEZA Board before the deadline for the presentation of the candidatures. The Selection Committee will be chaired by the awardee from the previous FEZA conference, without voting rights, and six prominent zeolite scientists as voting members. The FEZA Board will be responsible for administering the process.
The received nominations by the above defined deadline will be distributed to the Selection Committee members. Members of the Selection Committee and of the FEZA Board cannot be nominated during their service.
The Selection Committee will submit to the FEZA board a list with at least 2 and no more than 4 names (individual or group) proposed for the Crønstedt Award.
The selection will be carried out, at a meeting during the FEZA conference, by a two-stage voting procedure which narrows the list of nominated candidates first to two, and then one candidate. The two candidates with the highest number of votes move to the second round. Each member of FEZA Board casts a single vote and a simple majority of delegates present at the meeting selects the winner. The voting process is secret. The FEZA President does not vote during this procedure. If two or more candidates have equal numbers of votes, the vote will be repeated. Only in this case – second voting - the FEZA President will have the right to vote.
Third Cronstedt Award
The third Cronstedt's Award is awarded to prof. Wieslaw J. Roth (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and prof. Jiří Čejka (Charles University, Czech Republic) for their substantial contributions to the fundamental aspects of synthesis and understanding of two-dimensional zeolites. It include general methodology for soft-chemical manipulation of zeolite layers to produce different frameworks, swelling and interlayer chemistry of layered MWW zeolites, soft chemical exfoliation in preparation of liquid dispersions of zeolite monolayers.
Second Cronstedt Award
During the 7th FEZA Conference, held in Sofia (July 3-7, 2017.), FEZA Board announced that the winner of the second Cronstedt's Award was prof. Russell E. Morris (University St. Andrews, UK), for his scientific contributions in chemistry of zeolites and similar porous materials, which include ADOR principle, ionothermal materials chemistry (chiral induction and quantum spin liquids) and new concept in MOFs chemistry. The second Cronstedt's Award was sponsored by Exxon Mobil.
First Cronstedt Award
The first Cronstedt's Award for contributions to science and technology related to zeolites, ordered mesoporous materials, metal organic
frameworks or other porous materials is awarded to prof. Svetlana Mintova and prof. Valentin Valtchev
(Laboratoire Catalyse & Spectrochimie, CNRS, Caen, France) for their fundamental studies on zeolite nucleation in organic-free hydrogels, that brought the current state of the
art to the level of rational design of zeolite crystals and synthesis of high quality nanosized zeolites. The first Cronstedt award was financially
supported by TOTAL, and presented at 6th FEZA conference, held in Leipzig, 2014.
