Seminar Series


Wi Se 2025/25

All talks start at 02:15 pm (Introduction at 01:45 MGK only; 02:00 "Coffee with our Guest", R.4.147)

30.10.25

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić, Univ. Jena/Leibniz-IOM, “Light-driven electron and proton transfer in polymers and at interfaces”

13.11.25

Prof. Dr. Johannes Kästner, Univ. Stuttgart, "Tunneling Processes in Chemistry Simulated with Instanton Theory"

27.11.25

Prof. Dr. Müge Kasanmascheff, Univ. Dortmund, "Water as Modulator of Electron Transfer and Activity in Biological Systems"

11.12.25

Prof. Dr. Helmut Zacharias, Univ. Münster, "Spin-directed energy reactions using helical structures"

15.01.26

Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis, RWTH Aachen, "tba"

29.01.26

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Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Tammannstr. 4, Prov. Hörsaal A (4. OG), Online participation possible on demand

Lectures from previous semesters:

SoSe 2025

24.04.25

Prof. Dr. Kai Exner, Univ. Duisburg- Essen, "New Avenues in the Theoretical Description of Energy Storage and Conversion Processes"

15.05.25

Dr. Constance Neumann, MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mühlheim, "Controlling the Spatial Arrangement of Active Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysis"

05.06.25

Prof. Dr. Katja Heinze, Univ. Mainz, "Photochemistry of Complexes with Earth-abundant Metals"

19.06.25

Prof. Dr. Charles Machan, Univ. of Virginia, "Metal-Free Molecules as Electrocatalysts and Co-electrocatalysts"

03.07.25

Prof. Dr. Oliver Einsle, Univ. Freiburg, "Controlling and Coordinating Proton and Electron Flow in Bioinorganic Protein Machines"

17.07.25

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Span, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, "Hydrogenases made crystal clear"

WiSe 2024/25

24.10.24

Dr. George Cutsail, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, "Advanced EPR and X-ray Spectroscopies to Understand Electronic Structure in Biocatalysis and Organometallic Centers"

28.11.24

Prof. Dr. Deven Estes, Universität Stuttgart, "Proton-Electron Transfers and Metal-Support Interactions: Reactions of Metal Hydrides with Oxide Surfaces"

12.12.24

Dr. Martin Srnec, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, "Principles controlling reactivity and mechanism of H-atom abstraction: beyond the canonical view"

09.01.25

Prof. Dr. Julia Stähler, HU Berlin, "A honey trap? - Exciting and excited state properties of ZnO, its surfaces, and interfaces"

23.01.25

Dr. Guanqi Qiu, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, "Selectivity in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: A Conceptual Framework for Modulating and Harnessing Intrinsic Reactivity in PCET Systems"

06.02.25

Prof. Dr. Sven Rau, Universität Ulm, "Learning from Nature - Repair and Damage Mitigation in Artificial Photosynthesis"

SoSe 2024

25.04.24

Prof. Dr Katharina Kaiser, University of Göttingen, "Optoelectronics on the atomic scale – what we can learn from STM on single molecules"

02.05.24,

Prof. Dr. James M. Mayer, Yale University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer is ubiquitous at solid/solution interfaces: revising the electron-focused view"

06.06.24

Dr. Andreas Meyer, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, "Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Methods to Study Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Molecular Systems"

14.06.24

Prof. Dr. Way-Zen Lee, National Taiwan Normal University, "A Mechanistic Spectrum of O-H Bond Cleavage Observed for Reactions of Phenols with a Mn(III)-Superoxo Complex"

30.08.24

Prof. Dr. Sharon Hommes-Schiffer, Princeton University, "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion"