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

On September 30th, 2021 the BeVoice Academy presented an artistic event on the subject of catalysis. UniSysCat is happy to have contributed. Here are some impressions of the event.

Quantum technology is the future. However, the fascinating world of quantum is still full of mysteries for the human mind. The latest episode of "exzellent erklärt" takes a dive into the world of quantum science.

A UniSysCat team around Prof. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya applied electron microscopy to track the dynamic evolution of copper catalysts in real-time under reaction conditions.

How fair is our education system? That is what researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute are investigating. For "exzellent erklärt" they also shed light on the situation in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UniSysCat groups of Matthias Driess and Tobias Gensch unravelled an unexpected mode of activation of carbon disulfide with a bis(silylene).

Artificial Intelligence decodes catalyst performance based on "materials genes of catalysis" which encode crucial material properties. Researchers from NOMAD, FHI Berlin and BasCat have proposed a new approach for modeling…

Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Vogt from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She receives the 2022 Clara Immerwahr Award for her outstanding research in the field of catalysis.

With ultrashort X-ray laser pulses, a research team involving the UniSysCat groups of Athina Zouni & Holger Dobbek gained important new insights into the function of photosystem II, a key catalytic system in photosynthesis.

Two recent interdisciplinary UniSysCat publications shed light on the importance of protonation on the functionality and reactivity of molecular compounds relevant in chemistry and biology.

Roderich Süßmuth has already been awarded in 2020 for his achievements in the field of peptide chemistry. The award was finally handed over at the annual meeting of the Max Bergmann Kreis.

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Consortium

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