The 2025 edition of EuChemS CompChem, the biennial conference of the EuChemS Division of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (DCTC), was held in sunny Naples, Italy, from 15–18 September 2025. Co-organised by the DCTC and the Italian Chemical Society, this was the second conference in the renewed series, following the successful inaugural event in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2023. Formerly known as EuCo-CTC, the meeting is the DCTC’s flagship event, providing a key forum for presenting advances in molecular modelling and simulation.
A highlight of the conference was the award ceremony honouring the Division’s 2024 and 2025 prize winners (see picture).
- The 2024 EuChemS Walter Thiel Award in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry was presented by DCTC Chair Dr. Tanja Mourik to Prof. Sandra Luber (University of Zurich), in recognition of her pioneering quantum mechanical methods and their application to complex systems spanning chemistry, biology, physics, and materials science.
- The 2025 DCTC Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Prof. Manuel Yañez (Autonomous University of Madrid) for his outstanding scientific contributions and dedicated service to the field and the DCTC community.
The event attracted 247 participants from 30 countries, including 22 European nations as well as Canada, the USA, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, India, Japan, Australia, Zimbabwe, and China. The gender distribution was 66% male and 34% female.
The scientific programme featured 6 plenary lectures (67% female), 13 invited speakers (62% female) and 40 contributed talks (with an overall female percentage of 40 for all talks combined) as well as 140 poster presentations.
