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Ravat, junior group leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, was awarded the prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, for his outstanding scientific achievements.

Louise Kersting was awarded a poster prize at a renowned international seminar in Klosters (Switzerland).

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.

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.

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.

This current topic was presented by the Siegfried Hünig Lecturer 2022, Prof. Peter Bäuerle. A second talk given by Prof. Hans-Ulrich Reißig honored the scientific work of Siegfried Hünig who deceased in 2021.

The 48th German Liquid Crystal Conference (GLCC2022) was the first conference to be held in presence at the University of Würzburg after a two-year break.

Chemists at the University of Würzburg aim to develop a new class of chiral organic semiconductors – for applications of next generation organic electronics. The project is funded by the ERC with 1.5 million euros.

Dr. Prince Ravat, junior group leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, was awarded the 2022 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

Researchers from Konstanz, Novosibirsk and Würzburg make it possible to read out optically indistinguishable spin states with a new spectroscopy method - published in "Science".

With Kirsten Schöpf, a trainee of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy has once again achieved the best results in the IHK final examination.

Junior Professor Ann-Christin Pöppler is Felix-Bloch Lecturer 2021, presented by the division Magnetic Resonance of the German Chemical Society

The Université Officielle de Mbujimayi has granted the honorary doctorate to Prof. Gerhard Bringmann from Würzburg. In doing so, it honors Bringmann's scientific work and the support of young-and-upcoming academics in the Congo.

Professors and staff of the Institute of Organic Chemistry mourn for their former colleague and director Professor Siegfried Hünig. He deceased on March 24, 2021, just a few days before his 100th birthday.

The drug Remdesivir only weakly inhibits the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Research groups from Göttingen and Würzburg have discovered why this is so.