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.

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.

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.

Thanks to the DAAD Hilde-Domin program, Najiba Azemi from Afghanistan can do her doctorate in the UniSysCat working group of Juri Rappsilber where she works on anti-cancer medication.

The two scientists Rhea Machado and Javier Silva have had a stellar career at UniSysCat and have now been interviewed by CHEManager magazine about their startup Porelio.