Program
Opening Remarks: Prof. Dr. Geraldine Rauch, President of TU Berlin
Welcome Speech: Prof. Dr. Arne Thomas, Vice Spokesperson of UniSysCat
Greeting Remarks: Dr. Katrin Friese, BASF
Laudation: Prof. Dr. Douglas Stephan, University of Toronto
Lecture: Prof. Dr. Meera Mehta, Clara Immerwahr Awardee 2024: “Zintl Clusters as Synthetic Tools”
Science Slam: Tamanna Manjur Ahamad, PhD student TU Berlin, Physical Chemistry/Biophysical Chemistry
Anushka Ghosh, PhD student and EC2/BIG-NSE scholar HU Berlin, Structural Biology/Biochemistry
Malin Khalil, PhD student FU Berlin, Ultrafast Dynamics in Catalysis
The ceremony and lectures are followed by a reception. Guests are cordially invited. We kindly ask you to register by April 5, 2024 on the event page of TU Berlin. We are grateful to BASF SE for sponsoring the Clara Immerwahr Award in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
About the Awardee
Prof. Dr. Meera Mehta completed her PhD in 2017 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of FRS Prof. Douglas Stephan. She was then awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford under the mentorship of Prof. Jose Goicoechea. Then, she was appointed to the University of Manchester to start her own independent research team in 2020. She is now returning to the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry to continue her research efforts.
The Mehta group is interested in understanding the fundamental reactivity patterns of homogenous main group compounds to develop sustainable catalysts. Research efforts in the group are largely focused on applying these metal-free catalysts for the synthesis of important feedstock chemicals used by the manufacturing sector, and for the removal and recycling of environmental toxins (e.g., greenhouse gases).