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

The "Day of Organic Chemistry" 2025, on which the working groups introduce themselves to students in their bachelor's studies, included the presentation of the Dr. Reich Prize, endowed with 1,000 euros, to two outstanding graduates.

Junior research group leader Jake Greenfield has prevailed in the tough competition for an ERC Starting Grant and thus raised a further 1.5 million euros for his research, following his recent success with a DFG application.

Getting Indo-German research projects off the ground: This is the aim of a joint programme of the Indian Ministry of Education and the German Federal Foreign Office. The University of Würzburg is represented with two projects.

The CURO-π6 – International Conference on the Synthesis and Application of Curved Organic π-Molecules and Materials was held in St. John’s, Canada in July 2025.

This year's prizewinner, Stefan Matile, impressed his audience at the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2025 with exciting research results such as supramolecular organocatalysis at 500 V.

Daniel Friedewald received one of the coveted poster prizes at the 26th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC).

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.