Following the appointment of Prof. Dr. Roger Gläser as Vice-Rector for Talent Development: Study and Teaching at Leipzig University, from February 2023 Dr. Thomas Sheppard takes up the role of Interim Professor in heterogeneous catalysis at the Institute of Chemical Technology.
Leipzig University’s Professor Annette Beck-Sickinger is one of the most distinguished female scientists in the world in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering, according to a recent award. Beck-Sickinger is one of twelve women worldwide to be honoured with the award in the 2023 list…
Engineering novel molecules and materials with specific properties can yield significant advances for industrial processes, drug discovery and optoelectronics. However, the search for novel molecules and materials is comparable to looking for a needle in a haystack, since the number of molecules in…
Technically, it would be possible for future space missions to detect DNA, lipids and other bacterial components on icy moons with an ocean beneath the ice in our solar system – assuming these building blocks of life exist beyond Earth. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of…
The Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC), in which Leipzig University is involved, will be expanded in the coming years into a major research centre based in Central Germany that will play a decisive role in shaping structural change in the region after the coal phase-out. This was…