Dr Reich Prize for Anna Fleck and Lena Frank

Since 2014, the OC Day has taken place during the lecture-free period shortly before the start of the winter semester and gives chemistry and biochemistry students the opportunity to get to know the diversity of research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry. It is not the lecturers who are the main protagonists. Instead, doctoral students present their research topics in short presentations and posters. Since 2023, presenting the Dr Reich Prize has also been part of the programme. With a dream grade of 1.0 in their Master's degree, awardees Anna Fleck and Lena Frank are role models for the Bachelor's students, who applauded enthusiastically at the award ceremony.

The Dr Reich Prize

This prize, endowed with EUR 1,000, is awarded annually in honour of Dr Hans Heiner Reich to one or two graduates of the Chemistry degree programme who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and whose Master's thesis was completed at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg and was evaluated with the top grade of 1.0. Together with his wife Marlene Tauber, Dr Reich decided to set up a foundation to "promote science and research as well as education, public and vocational training, including student support in the Department of Gynaecology at the University Hospital of Würzburg and the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Julius-Maximilians-Universität". The foundation's profits not only finance the Dr Reich Prize, but also a Dr Reich scholarship and the Dr Reich Lecture.

Anna Fleck

Anna Fleck began studying chemistry at the University of Würzburg in the winter semester of 2020/21 and completed her degree in the standard period of study of six semesters with the best possible grade. She joined the working group of NMR specialist Ann-Christin Pöppler for her Master's thesis. Her Master's thesis, which she submitted in September 2025, is entitled "Evaluating Site-Specific Isotopic Labelling Strategies for the Solid-State NMR Analysis of Polymeric Micelles with Low Guest Loadings". She completed her Master's degree with an overall grade of 1.0.

Lena Frank

Lena Frank also decided to study Chemistry at the University of Würzburg in 2020. Her Bachelor's thesis, written in the summer semester of 2023, was supervised by Professor Frank Würthner, whose working group she also remained loyal to for her Master's thesis. The thesis entitled "Perylene- and Terrylenebisimide-Hetero-Oligomers: Synthesis and Characterisation", which was submitted in July 2025, was also awarded top marks. As with her Bachelor's degree, Lena Frank also completed her Master's degree with the dream grade of 1.0.

Further information on the foundation: Tauber-Dr. Reich-Stiftung