What's UniSysCat all about?

UniSysCat stands for Unifying Systems in Catalysis. We are a Cluster of Excellence - more than 300 researchers from four universities and four research institutes in the Berlin and Potsdam area - working jointly together on current challenges in the highly relevant field of catalysis.

UniSysCat unites biologists, chemists, engineers and physicists with the aim to revolutionize catalysis research.

News

While the evaluations of the Clusters of Excellence are in full swing, the Berliner Morgenpost sheds light on UniSysCat's pioneering research. The article by Andreas Abel was published on February 1.

Today, the very first episode of the new podcast on the “Future of Chemistry and Society”, produced by Nona Schulte-Römer and UniSysCat postdoc Benjamin Steininger, went online.

The Berliner Morgenpost reports on Berlin's chances of positioning itself at the forefront of the transformation of the chemical industry. The article by Joachim Fahrun was published on January 27.

Four UniSysCat groups jointly elucidated the coupling of the reactivities of two physiologically unrelated enzymes in solution by theory and spectroscopy to achieve hydrogen-driven formate production and the reverse reaction.

Ten episodes of the German podcast "exzellent erlärt" have been published in the last six months. The podcast takes you from the lab to the universe.

UniSysCat researcher Benjamin Steininger in GEO 1/2025: “We don't just have oil in our tanks, we also have it in our minds”. The journal is until mid January on stock at almost every German kiosk or train station.

Using sophisticated operando spectroscopy a team around UniSysCat group leader Beatriz Roldán Cuenya from the FHI Berlin gains insights into the function of a nickel-based catalyst of great potential for the reduction of CO2.

UniSysCat and TU Berlin’s Institute for Chemistry present experiment kit to Hans-Litten-Schule

How can a career in experimental science coexist with the demands of starting and raising a family? This question took center stage at the "Career & Family" event, co-organized by greenCHEM and UniSysCat.

Dr. Bonnie Murphy from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics was honored for her groundbreaking research in catalysis. Join us in celebrating her achievements at the award ceremony on April 11, 2025, at TU Berlin.

Now on YouTube: The Excellent Science Slam 2024

Energie-Zeitenwende: mehr Effizienz durch bessere Katalysatoren - Video with Youtuber Tom Bötticher

Video: Learning from nature

Consortium

Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2008– 390540038