Professor Benjamin List from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung is a particularly high profile speaker for this year's Siegfried Hünig Lecture on 7 May 2026.

Professor Tomoyasu Mani from the University of Conneticut will give a lecture on "Designing Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs for Magnetic Control of Molecular Emission" on 6 November 2025 at 14:15 in Lecture Hall C

Jiarong Wu and Rikuto Kanno each received one of only seven Excellent Poster Awards at this major international symposium with more than 700 poster contributions.

For the second time, Würzburg chemistry professor Frank Würthner has received a prestigious award from the European Research Council: the ERC Advanced Grant is endowed with 2.5 million euros.

Dr. Kazutaka Shoyama heads the new DFG-funded junior research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry at the University of Würzburg.

Leonard Fink was honoured with the Young Scientist Award of the “German Liquid Crystal Society” (DFKG) for his presentation “New BTT-based star mesogens with broad and highly ordered mesophases bearing great potential for technical applications” at the “51st German Liquid Crystal Conference” in Göttingen.

Dr. Jake Greenfield from the Institute of Organic Chemistry recently took part in the 2025 Chemiedozententagung, held this year in Braunschweig. This annual meeting brings together early-career group leaders from across Germany to share their latest research with the broader chemistry community.

With artificial photosynthesis, mankind could utilise solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Würzburg chemists have taken this one step further.

Fathimath Nafla C.M., PhD student in the group of Matthias Lehmann, was awarded the Gold Medal for her academic excellence at the Central University of Punjab in the presence of the Indian President Smt. Droupadi Murmu.

Würzburg chemists have for the first time created a defect in graphene that allows ions to pass through. As they report in ‘Nature’, this could lead to new applications in water filtration or sensor technology.

Researchers led by chemist Claudia Höbartner have now uncovered the 3D structure of the RNA enzyme SAMURI. Their study provides insights into the development of ribozymes and the evolution of catalytically active RNA.

The award ceremony took place as part of the gala concert of the Universitätsbund on November 13, 2024.

Dr. Carolin Scheitl, a researcher at the University of Würzburg, was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize in the science category for her doctoral thesis on RNA chemistry.

After a two-year break, the region's best apprentice in the profession of chemical laboratory assistant once again was trained at the University of Würzburg.

Frank Würthner and his Indian colleague Mahesh Hariharan were invited to present their joint Research Training Group at an anniversary celebration in Delhi.