Prof. Dr. Joanna Wencel-Delord (Photo: private)

Joanna Wencel-Delord has been appointed to a W2 professorship for Organic Chemistry. Remarkably, she left the highly prestigious Université de Strasbourg, where she already had been a CNRS research director, to join the Institute of Organic Chemistry at JMU.

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Group picture of the XI. Nucleic Acid Chemistry Meeting (Photo: A. Heckel)

On the occasion of the XI. Nucleic Acid Chemistry Meeting of the DNG (German Nucleic Acid Society) about 120 researchers gathered at the University of Würzburg from 14th to 15th of September 2023, exchanging and discussing their most recent scientific results.

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Leonard Fink and Franziska Schneider presenting their certificates, and laudatory speaker Christoph Lambert (photo: C. Stadler)

For the first time, the Dr. Reich Prize, established in honor of its founder, was awarded to Franziska Schneider and Leonard Fink. It was presented as part of the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2023 by Prof. Christoph Lambert, member of the Board of Trustees of Tauber-Dr. Reich Foundation.

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Prof. Donald Hilvert with host Prof. Claudia Höbartner (photo: C. Stadler)

Donald Hilvert gave a plausible answer to this question in the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2023 with fascinating experiments on directed evolution in the laboratory.

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Specific interactions cause spherical nanoparticles of polymers to rearrange themselves into worm-like structures during cooling. The resulting hydrogel dissolves again when heated. (Image: Theresa Zorn/ Universität Würzburg)

A previously unknown form of hydrogel formation has been elucidated: chemists found unusual interactions between polymers.

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Generating hydrogen and using carbon dioxide for fuels: These are goals of the Solar Technologies go Hybrid research alliance. (Image: SolTech research network)

The "Solar Technologies go Hybrid" research program continues to receive funding of 1.7 million euros from the State of Bavaria. Now the aim is to produce synthetic fuels from carbon dioxide.

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Dr. Jake L. Greenfield in the laboratory (picture: private)

Dr. Jake L. Greenfield has been awarded a prestigious Liebig Fellowship to start his independent research group in Würzburg. He will be joining the Institute of Organic Chemistry as a Habilitand.

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Professor Claudia Höbartner. (image: private)

Chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner is being honoured for her outstanding research on the nucleic acids DNA and RNA: She receives the prestigious Leibniz prize endowed with 2.5 million euros.

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The chairman of the FCI's board of trustees presents the Lecturer Award to Ann-Christin Pöppler (Image: FCI)

Ann-Christin Pöppler receives the Lecturer Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. Her scientific work and her excellent teaching efforts have already been awarded several times.

 

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The Würzburg Highly Cited Researchers 2022 (from left): Jörg Vogel, Hermann Einsele, Frank Würthner, José Pedro Friedmann Angeli, Citation Laureate Laurens Molenkamp, and Dominic Grün. (Image: privat – Benedikt Knüttel – Mario Schmitt / HIRI – Latest Thinking / Tristan Vostry – Collage: Lutz Ziegler / Uni Würzburg)

Their work is most frequently cited in publications of other scientists. Researchers from the University - among them Frank Würthner - are therefore included in the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List.

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