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Every year, the Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award honors an outstanding scientist in the field of electrocatalysis. This year, Prof. Dr. Héctor D. Abruña receives the prestigious award named after UniSysCat's spiritus rector.

The EC²/BIG-NSE doctoral program, which is closely linked to UniSysCat, held its annual retreat on 12 and 13 June 2025. PhD students and supervisors shared their research progress and discussed the future of the program.

Six episodes of the German podcast "exzellent erlärt" have been published since February. Listen in as a warm-up for an episode by UniSysCat coming very soon!

An international team including several UniSysCat researchers is using the powerful method of serial-femtosecond crystallography to visualize precisely how a bacterial light receptor reacts to illumination.

On May 22, the German Research Foundation announced the funding decisions for the Clusters of Excellence. UniSysCat will not be funded beyond 2025. Yet, Berlin's catalysis research remains.

Six leading institutions launched an initiative for sustainable chemistry to create an innovation ecosystem that combines chemical industry transformation with the challenges of structural change in eastern Germany.

UniSysCat researcher Christian Lorent utilizes spectroscopy to provide the missing proof in the activation mechanism: The evolutionary link between two fundamental biological processes.

An article in Tagesspiegel published on April 26 highlights how a team around UniSysCat speaker Juri Rappsilber is developing medical compounds that only become active in the tumor without attacking healthy cells.

UniSysCat congratulates Bonnie Murphy on receiving the Clara Immerwahr Award 2025. We had the pleasure of celebrating this occasion together at TU Berlin on April 11. The preceding Symposium was also a truly inspiring day.

The “innovate! lab gGmbH”, which is funded by the Joachim Herz Foundation with 5 million euros, gives a new boost to the transfer of cutting-edge research into practice.