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

The Einstein Professorship of chemist Stefan Hecht strengthens Berlin's material sciences: with his team, he researches new materials with improved properties.

The European Research Council (ERC) grants an international research team around UniSysCat group leader Robert Bittl almost nine million euros for the study of “Chirality and Spin Selectivity in Electron Transfer Processes".

UniSysCat is part of this year's Berlin Science week with three events! Join our panel discussion on energy security in Urania Berlin on Nov 9 or meet Prof. Heberle in Humboldt Labor or listen to the Science Slam on Nov 10.

The GreenCHEM project will be funded with up to 10 million euros from the BMBF to develop the Berlin region into a hotspot for chemical innovations. As a networking partner, UniSysCat is pleased to announce this success!

The idea for the CTC was developed by UniSysCat member Prof. Peter Seeberger and Dr. Matthew Plutschack from the MPICI.

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless receive this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

The 20th episode of the podcast "exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle" with Prof. Drieß, co-spokesperson of UniSysCat, is about "Green chemistry - catalysis processes can be sustainable".

The call for applications for the Clara Immerwahr Award 2023 is now open.

Application deadline: November, 13, 2022

Three UniSysCat PIs are organizing this year's GDCh Electrochemistry conference in Berlin from 27 to 30 September at Freie Universität Berlin. Registration is still possible.

From archeology to active materials and the origin of life - four new episodes of the podcast "exzellent erklärt" were released from July to September.

The Synthesizer Podcast about the transformation of chemistry

Einzigartiges Ökystem für grüne Chemie in Berlin

Video: Being a researcher

Energie-Zeitenwende: Video with Youtuber Tom Bötticher

Consortium

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