Submission deadline: 31. October 2025
Objective
The Working Group Separation Science of the GDCh Division Analytical Chemistry awards the Ernst Bayer Prize annually to honour an outstanding publication by young scientists in the field of analytical separation techniques.
The prize
The award includes an award certificate, prize money of 1000 euros and participation in the 36th doctoral seminar of the working group, which will take place from 11 to 13 January 2026 in Hohenroda. The prizewinner will present the award-winning publication in a short lecture at the seminar. A panel of experts appointed by the working group board will decide on the award; the decisive selection criterion is the scientific quality of the submitted work.
Nomination/Application
Both nominations and applications are possible. The prize is open to all first authors of a publication published or accepted in 2024 or 2025 in an international peer-reviewed scientific journal, who should not have exceeded the age of 30 and whose doctorate was generally completed no more than one year ago. The application must clearly state which individual publication is being proposed for the award. All proposals include a brief recommendation or acknowledgement of the article, a CV (including contact details) and the publication itself.
Submission
Please send your proposal electronically and summarised in a PDF file to Dr. Martin Vogel, the Chair of the Separation Science working group.
| Year | Award winner:in | Publication |
| 2025* | Dr. Simon Jonas Jaag | Three-Minute Enantioselective Amino Acid Analysis by Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Drift Tube Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Using a Chiral Core-Shell Tandem Column Approach |
| 2023 | Valentin Göldner | Electrochemistry-mass spectrometry bridging the gap between suspect and target screening of valsartan transformation products in wastewater treatment plant effluent |
| 2022 | Robert G.H. Marks | How to Couple LC-IRMS with HRMS - A Proof-of-Concept Study | 2021 | Nora T. Hartner | On-Line Coupling of Chip-Electrochromatography and Ion Mobility Spectrometry |
| 2020 | Patrick Olaf Helmer | Mass spectrometric investigation of cardiolipins and their oxidation products after two-dimensional heart-cut liquid chromatography |
| 2019 | Bernhard Durner | High-resolution high performance liquid chromatography: Application of a saw tooth gradient for the separation of various polymers |
| 2018 | Ulrich Woiwode | Imaging Peptide and Protein Chirality via Amino Acid Analysis by Chiral x Chiral Two-Dimensional Correlation Liquid Chromatography |
| 2017 | Susanne Stephan | Contaminant screening of wastewater with HPLC-IM-qTOF-MS and LC+LCIM-qTOF-MS using a CCS database |
| 2016 | Carsten Lotter | HPLC-MS with Glass Chips Featuring Monolithically Integrated Electrospray Emitters of Different Geometries |
| 2015 | Marco Nestola | Universal Route to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Analysis in Foodstuff: Two-Dimensional Heart Cut Liquid Chromatography-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry |
| 2014 | Pablo A. Kler | Non-aqueous electrolytes for isotachophoresis of weak bases and its application to the comprehensive preconcentration of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids in column-coupling ITP/CE-MS Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry 2014, 406, 7163-7174 |
| 2013 | Andrea Francesco Giuseppe Gargano | Mixed-mode chromatography with zwitterionic phosphopeptidomimetic selectors from Ugi multicomponent reaction |
| 2012 | Dorothea Kujawinski | When Other Separation Techniques Fail: Compound-Specific Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis of Sulfonamides Containing Pharmaceuticals by High-Temperature-Liquid Chromatography-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry |
| 2011 | Marek Mahut | Plasmid DNA manufacturing: Topology-selective chromatography reveals plasmid supercoiling shifts during fermentation and allows rapid and efficient preparation of topoisomers |
| 2010 | Stefanie Fritzsche | Chip Electrophoresis with Mass Spectrometric Detection in Record Speed |
| 2009 | Nathanael Delmotte | Repeatability of peptide identifications in shotgun proteome analysis employing off-line two-dimensional chromatographic separations and ion-trap MS |
| 2008 | Wiebke Lohmann | Generation and Identification of Reactive Metabolites by Electrochemistry and Immobilised Enzymes Coupled On-Line to Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry |
| 2007 | Ivo Nischang | Key to Analyte Migration and Retention in Electrochromatography |
| 2006 | Pavel A. Levkin | Combining the Enantioselectivities of L-Valine Diamide and Permethylated ß-Cyclodextrin in One Gas Chromatographic Chiral Stationary Phase |
| 2005 | Suzanna Maria van Leuwen | Prediction of clozapine metabolism by on-line electrochemistry/liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry |
| 2004 | Jens Dahlmann | Liquid chromatography-electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometry based method for the simultaneous determination of algal and cyanobacterial toxins phytoplankton from marine waters and lakes followed by tentative structural elucidation of microcystins |
| 2003 | Felix C. Leinweber | Chromatographic performance of monolithic and particulate stationary phases. Hydrodynamics and adsorption capacity |
*Adjustment of the award year to the award year.