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New presidents of chemical societies in Germany, Belgium and Italy

Thomas Geelhaar (Merck, Darmstadt) has been elected President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) and took office on 1 January 2014, following Barbara Albert (Technische Universität Darmstadt). He has been on the Board of the GDCh since 2008 and was treasurer from 2010 to 2013. Geelhaar studied chemistry at the University of Mainz from 1975 to 1981 and received his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Mainz in 1983. In 1984, he started working in liquid crystal research at Merck in Darmstadt and held since then several leading positions in research, marketing and business development. In 2007 he was appointed as Chief Technology Officer Chemicals and Senior Vice President. In 2012, he became a member of the Editorial Board of Angewandte Chemie.

Claudine Buess-Herman has been elected President of the Société Royale de Chimie (SRC) Belgium. She is full professor of analytical chemistry at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She received her PhD from ULB in 1978 and has directed the Laboratory of Analytical and Interfacial Chemistry of ULB since 1989. Her research int

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