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A green cardboard template in the shape of a Christmas tree behind a support stand. Several silver and copper-colored mirrored flasks and test tubes are attached to the support stand by support clamps.
Merry Christmas!!!
We wish you all a Merry Christmas, restful holidays, and all the best for the year 2026!
It was a colorful hour full of explosions, 💥 shining colors 🌈 and eye-opening facts about light. Many thanks to Uwe Karst, Michael Holtkamp, and the whole lecture-team for the spectacular #Christmaslecture “Let there be light!”.
Video: Linus Peikenkamp @uni-muenster.de. Music by pixabay radio.
Time to celebrate🎉: The @dfg.de has announced that Armido Studer receives the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize" for his pioneering research in Organic #RadicalChemistry. We congratulate him for this great acknowledgement of his outstanding research activities at @uni-muenster.de!
11.12.2025 11:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the same event, Julia Soika received the Rectory Prize for her excellent doctoral dissertation at our faculty. One of the cutting-edge topics in her thesis was the application of a well-known versatile thermal Aluminum-Salen catalyst in #photocatalysis. Congratulations!
10.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All 122 summa cum laude PhD graduates of the university grouped together with Rctor Wessels on the stage of the auditorium at the "Schloss".
At the traditional annual "summa cum laude"-reception, the Rectorate of the @uni-muenster.de has honored 18 PhD-graduates from our faculty for their outstanding theses in #Chemistry, #FoodChemistry and #Pharmacy, graded with the best possible result. Congratulations for your great achievement!
10.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the researchers of the IRTG in a group foto.
Great news for our young researchers: The international research training group (IRTG) "Functional pi-Systems: Activation, Interaction and Application (pi-Sys)" @uni-muenster.de is funded by the DFG for additional 4.5 years. Many thanks to the whole IRTG-team for their long-standing dedication!
28.11.2025 12:07 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A deep red flame in the metal bos of the atomic absorption spectrometer.
Four students standing in front of a chemical lab hood. One is looking over her shoulder and smiling into the camera.
A group of high school students are sitting in a seminar room and listening to a talk.
One high school student is holding a beaker in his hand, while another one ist pressing on a syringe to filter a sample through a syringe filter pad.
Professional Analyses by high school students: This week, more than 100 chemistry enthusiasts from 6 regional schools are visiting the Karst-Labs. At the annual event "LK Lab Instrumental Analysis" they take up the lab coat and use our state-of-the-art instruments to solve everyday analytical tasks.
27.11.2025 13:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer of the christmas lecture "Let there be light!". December 16th, 2025 lecture hall C1; host: Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry.
Join us for our annual christmas lecture on December 16th at 5 pm in the lecture hall C1. This year, Uwe Karst and Michael Holtkamp explore the fascination of light under the topic "Let there be light!". How do we perceive it? How can we make colorful light? And how does chemistry come into play?
18.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A high school student holding a large methane flame in her open hand.
Prof. Denise Steiner informs high school students about drug production in a lecture hall.
In the biochemistry lab, Bianca Berkenfeld explains to 7 high school students how to do a bacteria streak.
Two PhD-students prepare ice cream using liquid nitrogen. Beneath a blue sky outside, the working desk is covered with fog from water condensing from the cooled air.
Open doors for future chemists, food chemists, and pharmacists: More than 900 guests explored our labs and lecture halls at the yearly University day @uni-muenster.de .
Photos: Valerie Hollwedel, Hauke Engler
two components: on the left Wolfgang Zeier in a suit; on the right Frank Glorius in a labcoat leaning on a table with a molecule model and a reck with reaction tubes.
Congratulations to Frank Glorius (@gloriusfrank.bsky.social) and Wolfgang Zeier who made it onto the Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" list.
@uni-muenster.de @gloriusgroup.bsky.social roup.bsky.social
Photos by Lukas Walbaum (left) and Peter Dziemba (right).
three pictures combined. First: Dmitrii Kalinin gets the habilitation certificate from dean Dagmar Klostermeier in the lecture hall; second: traditional handshake and oath with Verena Spiegler and Dagmar Klostermeier; third: Diddo Diddens next to the dean after his lecture.
Congratulations to Dmitrii Kalinin, Verena Spiegler, and Diddo Diddens who officially completed their habilitation procedures @uni-muenster.de this month. Thank you for your inspiring inaugural lectures!
(Photos: Uni MS - Hauke Engler, Alina Siutkina)
Great project on the combined use of light- and redox-switching in hydrogels is now published in Nat. Commun. We can generate all types of stable redox patterns and actuation under ambient conditions using light for spatio-temporal control!
15.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder: Die Uni Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27.10. zum Tag der Lehre ein! Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ geht es um aktuelle und innovative Lehrkonzepte. Wer nicht vor Ort dabei sein kann, kann die Veranstaltung im Live-Stream verfolgen.
23.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Actually, there are many such events going on in Germany every year on October, 3rd. It's called "Türen auf mit der Maus" ("open doors with the mouse") and numerous companies, universities and public institutions participate with their individual programs.
14.10.2025 07:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time to celebrate: on friday, our latest 30 PhD graduates in #chemistry and #pharmacy were awarded the highest academic degree during a festivity in the "Schloss" @uni-muenster.de.
We congratulate everyone who recently achieved this important stepstone in their career!
Photo: Uni MS - Simone Krause
Wo sonst Fußball-Zweitligist Preußen Münster @preussen06.bsky.social kickt, hieß die Universität heute (8. Oktober) ihre Erstsemester willkommen. Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels und Bürgermeisterin Angela Stähler begrüßten mehr als 4.000 „Erstis“.
08.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Photos: Uni MS - Fleige.
Get impressions and behind the scenes in a video at "WDR Lokalzeit Münsterland" (german only): www1.wdr.de/lokalzeit/fe...
The Institute for Chemical Education @uni-muenster.de welcomed 32 children aged 6 or above and their parents with playful chemical experiments. According to this year’s motto “playing time” well known board games were explored from a new perspective.
09.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 3
Here, we present MDPath, a novel tool to study allosteric communication pathways within protein structures:
Unraveling Allosteric Communication Paths of Drug Targets through Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Die Zukunft der Batterieproduktion nimmt weiter Fahrt auf. Am 1. Oktober wurde in Münster der Grundstein für den 2. Bauabschnitt der Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle (FFB Fab) @fraunhofer.bsky.social gelegt. Die Uni Münster ist mit dem Batterieforschungszentrum MEET beteiligt. #Batterien
06.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We welcome all new students at our faculty. Have a good start!!!
06.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Privat-Dozentin Silke Cameron übergibt im Welfenschloss Hann. Münden den Innovationspreis der Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie an Professor Doktor Thomas Schmidt. Copyright: IPBP.
Congratulations to Thomas Schmidt @pharmacampus-ms.bsky.social on receiving the Innovation Award of the "Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie e. V." for his outstanding research @uni-muenster.de on using topical arnica tincture to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis. Publication: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
02.10.2025 08:06 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
10 of the 15 chemistry teachers are gathered in a half-circle in the foyer of the PharmaCampus for a group photo.
At the same time, 15 chemistry teachers used the opportunity to learn about new teaching concepts of the Institute for Chemistry Education in the @pharmacampus-ms.bsky.social and to explore one of our research topics at the Organic Chemistry Institute @uni-muenster.de.
01.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All participating students are gathered in the foyer of the PharmaCampus for a group photo.
Welcoming the next chemical talents: on our interactive information day, more than 80 high school students explored our faculty. At our practical lab stations, they discussed chemistry with our researchers and instructors and got informed about the studying opportunities.
01.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The professors Stephan von Delft, Jens Leker, and Simon Lux are on the stage for the closing remarks.
Congratulations: the Institute of Business Administration at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy @uni-muenster.de has celebrated its 25th anniversary. We thank the institute for its numerous networking activities and its longstanding contribution to the research and the visibility of the faculty.
30.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Line Muradi receives the "For Women in Science"-award.
The faculty congratulates junior group leader Line Muradi from @uni-muenster.de for receiving the @L'Oréal / @unesco.org "For Women in Science"-Award for her outstanding research in using water as an environmentally benign solvent for photochemistry.
Photo: Getty Images for L’Oréal.
Der Hochschultag Münster mit Vorträgen und Schnuppervorlesungen für Studieninteressierte findet am 13. November statt. Anmeldungen sind ab sofort möglich! www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...
24.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Microskopic picture of four linked mikro-gears in a row. photo by Gan Wang, CCBY4.0
An international team of scientists including Jun.-Prof. Marcel Rey from @uni-muenster.de has developed laser driven microgears. For the first time, movable gears smaller than a hair's diameter were presented, breaking the former threshold of 0.1 mm.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Das Dekanat des Fachbereichs Chemie und Pharmazie sucht Verstärkung in der Fachbereichsverwaltung. Bewerbungen sind noch bis zum 30.09. möglich. Die vollständige Ausschreibung finden Sie unter www.uni-muenster.de/CPJobs/stell....
23.09.2025 08:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After an interactive workshop our student's team is well prepared and highly motivated for their mentoring activities. Now they are looking forward to helping the new students in Chemistry, Food Chemistry and Chemistry Education during their first semester.
19.09.2025 08:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0