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From March 8th to 10th, Louis and Hanna represented the Würthner group at the SupraChem 2026 conference at TU Dortmund, which focuses on advances in supramolecular chemistry.

Ms Jiarong Wu, a recently graduated PhD student from the Greenfield group was awarded the 2025 Macrocyclic and Supramolecular (MASC) PhD thesis prize, presented by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The 14th SolTech conference took place in Bayreuth from September 29th to October 1st 2025.

On 17 September, the foundation's chairman, Kurt Weller, and its manager, Markus Hartmann, visited the Center for Nanosystem Chemistry and were shown the research on light-harvesting systems and organic semiconductors carried out by the two scholarship holders Lena Frank and Lia-Sophie Helbig as part of their master's theses.

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.

This year our Literature Seminar took place in at the DJH Bayreuth...

Jonas Spengler received a poster prize at the CURO-π6 – International Conference on the Synthesis and Application of Curved Organic π-Molecules and Materials

From July 8 to 12, Daniel and Simon represented the Würthner group at the 26th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC) in sunny Milazzo, Italy. They joined their boss, Frank Würthner, who contributed with a talk on the group’s latest research in the field of artificial photosynthesis.

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.