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Prof. Sefik Suzer from Bilkent University in Turkey has been conducting research in the research group of Prof. Hans-Peter Steinrück in the field of surfaces and interfaces for three months since the beginning of October. His stay is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as an extension of...

Sustainable electrification of mobility as well as digitalization and automation of manufacturing processes are hot topics of the highest social relevance. Globally interconnected and non-transparent trade flows along with resource scarcity and current supply chain difficulties in the semiconductor ...

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy cordially invites all students of Chemistry and Molecular Science who would like to start a thesis soon to "Unser Department - Unsere Forschung 2022 / Our Department - Our Research 2022" (UDUF). At the evening event, the professors of the Department will i...

The right temperature ensures the success of technical processes, the quality of food and medicines, or affects the lifetime of electronic components and batteries. Temperature indicators enable to detect (un)desired temperature exposures and irreversibly record them by changing their signal for a r...

The group around Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder, Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, just reported in Nature Communications a new class of catalysts for hydrogenation, one of the most important industrial processes for the production of bulk or fine chemicals. With smallest catalyst quantities...

The Career Service of FAU cordially invites students, PhD students and Postdocs to the Career Meeting for Chemistry and Molecular Science students on June, 22 2022 from 6 pm 15. The event will take place at the Chemikum, seminar rooms 00.110 and 00.111 (first floor, next to the Student Service Ce...

Dr Neha Patel has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship by the European Commission. Dr Patel has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (Prof. Sjoerd Harder PhD) since July 2021 and focuses on the reduction of nitrogen compounds ...

Molecular photoswitches are molecules which undergo geometric and physical changes upon light irradiation. Properties such as color, chemical reactivity or biological activity can be controlled by light of a certain color range. Nature also uses molecular photoswitches, with retinal being one of ...

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has appointed Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück, Chair of Physical Chemistry II, as a Henriette Herz Scout. In this funding program, scouts can attract up to three outstanding young foreign scientists with a PhD degree to FAU. The selected candidates receive a Humb...