Early Career Scientist Division (ECSD)
The Early Career Scientist Division is a newly formed group of young scientists linking between already existing Young Scientist local associations and the IUCr.About
The IUCr Early Career Scientist Division (ECSD) was formed in early 2025 as a new division of the IUCr. The division aims to connect and unite early career scientists and regional associations to provide an exchange of experience and knowledge, to promote collaboration and collegiality within the community.For more information read the latest at the IUCr Newsletter.
Chair
Name: Rebecca Clulow
Position: Researcher
Current Affiliation: Uppsala University
Region: Europe (Sweden)
Research Topic: My research is centred on high entropy materials with applications for hydrogen storage, proton conduction and magnetic properties. Crystallography and diffraction are always at the core of my research where we aim to use structure-property relationships to design greener and more sustainable materials.
Co-chair
Name: Orbett Alexander
Position: Lecturer
Current Affiliation: University of the Western Cape
Region: Africa (South Africa)
Research Topic: Design and development of small-molecule therapeutics for biological applications, employing crystallographic techniques for structural elucidation and analysis of structure-activity relationships.
Members
Name: Analio Dugarte
Position: Professor
Current Affiliation: Universidad de Los Andes
Region: Latin American (Venezuela)
Research Topic: I work on the structural characterization of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) using powder and single crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. Currently, the main focus is on structure determination using powder diffraction data of these APIs.
Name: Alice-Roza Eruera
Position: Research Fellow
Current Affiliation: University of Otago
Region: Oceania (New Zealand)
Research Topic: My research is in the cryo-electron microscopy space with a focus on the agents of infectious diseases. Structures I've worked on extend from large macromolecular particles like bacteriophages, VLPs and glycoproteins, to small enzymes like polymerases and proteases with and without inhibitors, using both X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM.
Name: Ghodbane Oumaima
Position: PhD candidate
Current Affiliation: Abbes laghrour university, Khenchela, Algeria
Region: North Africa (Algeria)
Research Topic: Synthesis, characterization and applications of polymorphs Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and organic-inorganic hybrid compounds based on nitrogen bases: Towards new materials with physicochemical properties.
Name: Camila Batista Pinto
Position: Post-doctoral researcher
Current Affiliation: University of São Paulo
Region: Latin America (Brazil)
Research Topic: My main topic of research is small-molecule X-ray crystallography, focusing on the study of non-covalent interactions by means of X-ray charge density studies and topological analysis.
Name: Elodie Tailleur
Position: Assistant professor
Current Affiliation: University of Lorraine / CRM2 laboratory
Region: Europe (France)
Research Topic: My research interests focus on the structure-properties relationships of ferroelectric molecular and/or hybrid organic-inorganic materials. For this purpose, I develop advanced crystallographic experiments, in particular in situ X-ray diffraction under electric field.
Name: Nichole Valdez
Position:Staff Scientist
Current Affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories
Region: North America (Mountain USA)
Research Topic: Powder and single crystal X-ray diffraction of a variety of materials as a service crystallographer.
Name: Zeyue Zhang
Position: PhD student
Current Affiliation: Peking University
Region: Asia (China)
Research Topic: My research interest is on the structural solution for sub-micro crystals using 3D electron diffraction and numerical characterization of dynamical effects. I am also studying the ambiguity of X-ray diffraction, which is also known as homometry.
Name: Kara Zielinski
Position: Graduate Student
Current Affiliation: Cornell University
Region: North America (USA)
Research Topic: : I work on methods development for time-resolved structural biology experiments, with a particular focus on crystallography and solution scattering.
Calendar of meetings
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Forthcoming meetings can be found using the calendar navigation tool or by selecting a meeting type, topic or country from the lists below.
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Meetings
Teaching and Education
Regional Early Career Associations
American Crystallographic Association Young Scientists Special Interest GroupRegion: US/Canada
Contact: Kara Zielinski
Wepage: https://www.amercrystalassn.org/scientific-interest-groups
British Crystallographic Association Early Stage Crystallography Group
Region: UK
Contact: Thomas Hitchings
Webpage: https://escg.crystallography.org.uk/
European Crystallographic Association - Young Crystallographers general interest group
Region: Europe
Contact: Marta Morana, Mateja Pisačić
Webpage: https://ecanews.org/groups/gig-01-young-crystallographers
German Society for Crystallography - Young Crystallographers
Region: Germany
Webpage: https://dgk-home.de/en/category/young-crystallographers/
Youth Committee of Chinese Crystallographic Society
Region: China
Webpage: https://www.ccrs.net.cn/
Regional Associations
African Crystallographic Association (AfCA)
American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA)
European Crystallographic Association (ECA)
Latin American Crystallographic Association (LACA)
E-mail: [email protected]

