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

TU Berlin gives insights into the Rappsilber Lab: They work on proteins - the building blocks of life. Find out how they analyze the structure and interaction of proteins in their natural environment.

Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, UniSysCat member and Director of the Interface Science Department of the Fritz Haber Institute, has recently been elected as a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS).

Industry wants catalysts of high long-term stability. That’s what makes the research of UniSysCat member Prof. Franziska Hess so valuable - she predicts catalyst activities.

Honoring his outstanding achievements in life sciences, UniSysCat member Prof. Juri Rappsilber has been elected a new member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

 

UniSysCat is happy to welcome Ariane Nunes Alves as a new member of UniSysCat! She will start as a junior group leader at Technische Universität Berlin.

On July 20th, the Humboldtforum in Berlin opened its doors for the public. UniSysCat is part of the opening exhibition "Nach der Natur" in Humboldtlabor.

Omar M. Yaghi from UC Berkeley receives this year's Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award for his excellent pioneering research in the field of reticular chemistry.

The ISE-Elsevier Prize for Experimental Electrochemistry 2021 goes to UniSysCat member Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya for her outstanding achievements in the field.

Four UniSysCat groups and one Einstein visiting fellow applied in a proof of concept study a new experimental setup for the characterization of reaction intermediates in [NiFe] hydrogenase, which was chosen as hot paper.

A team featuring the UniSysCat groups of Walid Hetaba, Reinhard Schomäcker and Arne Thomas successfully synthesized multifunctional catalysts with a controllable distance between their active sites - a key goal of UniSysCat.

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