Professor Dr. Harald Schwalbe, Institute for Organic Chemistry und Chemical Biology of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany

Congratulations to Gustavo Fernández. After five very successful years as a junior research group leader at the University of Würzburg he accepted a call from the University of Münster as professor (W2) of organic chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Ian Manners, Professor and Chair of Inorganic, Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, European Union Marie Curie Chair, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK

Physicists study how to achieve perfect absorption of light with the help of rough ultrathin films.

Frank Würthner recently has become a member of the editorial board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. He will particularly strengthen the area of functional organic molecules.

The Summer Semester Lecture Series in 2015 ends with a lecture about "Programmed Self-Assembly of Bioactive Architectures"

Prof. Dr. Yves Henri Geerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères, Brussels, Belgium

Prof. Dr. Linda S. Shimizu, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

Prof. Anthony Harriman from the University of Newcastle will give a SolTech-Lecture on Artificial light-harvesting antennae for solar fuel generation.

With a dynamic lesson on switchable agents and molecular rotors Ben L. Feringa inspired an attentive audience during the Siegfried-Hünig-Lecture 2015.

For two months Prof. Dr. Linda Shimizu from the University of South Carolina will work and teach as a visiting professor a the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry and the Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Ben L. Feringa (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) will give the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2015 on May, 21th.

The Canadian chemist, Dr. Jeffrey M. Farrell, is awarded a highly prestigious fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

We welcome Dr. Shota Yoshioka, who is appointed for a "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship" from his home institution in Japan, at the Würthner Group.

“Technical infrastructure is a prerequisite for progress"! (University President Alfred Forchel)