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

An international team involving the UniSysCat group of Prof. Heberle successfully deciphered the pathway of chloride ions through a light-powered rhodopsin. Their findings make up a detailed „movie of a moving chloride ion“.

On Monday, February 28 at 7 pm, UniSysCat will present its research on the stage of MitWissenschaft in Humboldtforum Berlin.

Today, February 11, 2022 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We take this day as an opportunity to focus our attention on the women in UniSysCat.

In turn of this year's IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast, UniSysCat will host an online meeting: Meet four female UniSysCat group leaders and talk with them about research interests and career options.

How can we grow old healthily? This is the topic of the latest episode of the podcast "exzellent erklärt". Researchers from CECAD Cologne describe how one can prevent age-related diseases through changing the lifestyle.

As a group leader at the FMP Berlin, UniSysCat member Han Sun conducted theoretical and experimental research for the development of new drugs.

A team involving UniSysCat group leader Tobias Gensch presents kraken, a new database employing machine learning methods to predict properties of new ligands for catalysis.

The idea behind the new project „CILCat“ of the former UniSysCat group leader Martin Oschatz is to develop new materials to make catalysis more sustainable.

Climate change - can we hold the 1.5 degrees limit? This question is addressed and even answered in the latest episode of "exzellent erklärt" by the CLICCS Cluster of Excellence. Listen in!

Peter Strasser's group is researching electrocatalysts for an age without fossil carbon. In the article, published by TU Berlin, they present some of their most important lab devices and explain their function and use.

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