Fresh hypercinths were donated to members at the HYP*MOL status meeting in spring 2024. As part of the Hypercinth Challenge, some of these beautiful flowers have survived the year and were now honoured at the status meeting from 31 March to 2 April this year. The winners were Jonas Weiser Read more…
HYP*MOL PhD candidate Christian Zocher from Berthold Kersting‘s group and Project B1 has written an article for the Bunsen Magazine. This article on ‘Doing a PhD as Part of an SFB (Collaborative Research Centre, CRC)’ is part of issue 1/2025, which deals with doctoral studies as a whole. The Bunsen Read more…
Our PhD student Christian Zocher is one of the speakers at the workshop Research Data Management: Basics for Chemists taking place in Leipzig, on 13 and 14 February 2025. The workshop is jointly organised by the NFDI4Chem, the University of Leipzig and our colleagues from the Research Training Group 1,2,3H Read more…
HYP*MOL project leader Christoph Tegenkamp (A4) was invited at the nano2024 in Lublin. In his talk about ‘Electronic transport along chiral nanostructures’, our expert for Analysis of Solid Surfaces,Nanostructures and Quantum Materials talked about the CISS effect. According to the organizers, the main aim of the conference is bringing together Read more…
At the HYP*MOL status meeting between 25 and 27 March, so-called “hypercinths” were distributed to TRR members. Challenge: whose hypercinth is the most beautiful after one year will be honoured. Not so easy, as the life cycle of the hypercintus is very similar to that of the hyacinth. HYP*MOL is Read more…
HYP*MOL project leader Thomas Wiegand (project A2) has been elected Chairman of the Aachen Local Section of the German Chemica Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh). The election was held on January 9. We congratulate our expert for Magnetic Resonance of Complex Materials and Catalysts on this good news. The GDCh Read more…
Our project leader Kirill Monakhov is featured in the January issue of the Bunsen Magazine, published by the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, and reports on exciting approaches for the synthesis of high-tech semiconductors based on polyoxometalates (POMs). Exciting techniques such as STM-machined graffiti are used here in a Read more…
The first HYP*MOL meeting also served as a kick-off and was initially heralded with a ceremony in Chemnitz. The multi-day event was then used for project presentations, elections of the Managing Board and new members as well as for courses on awareness, good scientific practice and further topics. The project Read more…
Kirill Monakhov, HYP*MOL scientist in project A5, is among the mentors of the Class of 2023 of the International Younger Chemist Network “IYCN”. The Leipzig chemist from the Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM) is thus part of a group of 17 scientists from all over the world that “aims Read more…
The PreDoc Award at Leipzig University is a funding programme for young scientists in the pre-doctoral phase and post-docs for the supervision of prospective doctoral students. The two HYP*MOL project leaders Christina Lamers (Z2) and Georg Künze (A2 & B2), both from the Faculty of Medicine (Institute for Drug Discovery), Read more…