What's UniSysCat all about?

UniSysCat stands for Unifying Systems in Catalysis. We are a Cluster of Excellence - more than 300 researchers from four universities and four research institutes in the Berlin and Potsdam area - working jointly together on current challenges in the highly relevant field of catalysis.

UniSysCat unites biologists, chemists, engineers and physicists with the aim to revolutionize catalysis research.

News

A team of UniSysCat researchers deciphered the structure of the hunger switch in our brain - the tiny protein called melanocortin 4 receptor.

Benjamin List and David MacMillan receive this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of new catalysts. We're excited that the importance of catalysis is highlighted by the highest award.

Alzheimer's - origin, findings, research questions. Prof. Christian Haass from the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology talks about his work on the neurological disease.

Together with Dieter Oesterhelt and Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann has been honoured with the very prestigious biomedical research award for his pioneering work on optogenetics.

LGBTQ STEM Berlin and the Society of Spanish Researchers in Germany (CERFA) invite to the first Bundesciencia LGBTQ STEM Tisch on September 30.

The three top articles published in Angewandte Chemie report sophisticated studies of reaction intermediates important in biocatalytic processes involving metalloenzymes.

UniSysCat member Joachim Heberle became a new member of the Austrian Agency for Scientific Integrity (ÖAWI) and the central ombudsman of FU Berlin.

On September 1, 2021, the first episode of the podcast of the clusters of excellence in Germany appeared: scientists explain to podcaster Larissa Vassilian how they want to find answers to relevant topics of our time.

The exhibition 'Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age', curated by UniSysCat member Dr. Benjamin Steininger, will open at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg on September 4, 2021.

The call for applications for the Clara Immerwahr Award 2022 is now open.

Application deadline: October 31, 2021

Energie-Zeitenwende: mehr Effizienz durch bessere Katalysatoren - Video with Youtuber Tom Bötticher

Video: Optogenetics

Video: Learning from nature

"Making the world better with chemistry" - John Warner

Consortium

Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2008– 390540038