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

From 20 to 25 June, everything revolves around catalysis in the Mall Anders: The Cluster of Excellence "UniSysCat - Unifying Systems in Catalysis" presents itself and its research.

Dr. Charlotte Vogt receives the Clara Immerwahr Award 2022 for her outstanding scientific contributions in the field of spectroscopy of catalysis.

UniSysCat offers help for scientists from Ukraine working in related research areas. To establish scientific contacts, we recommend the event "Berlin4Ukraine: Meet & Learn - Networking event for researchers in exile" on June…

Onward Aid is a grassroots organization that delivers medicine and medical supplies to frontline hospitals in Ukraine. After multiple successful trips to Ukraine, they are now collecting donations for further activities.

The Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences is honored for his contributions to improving our understanding of surface chemistry.

UniSysCat warmly congratulates its member Prof. Schlögl on becoming the new President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will take up his new post on 1 January 2023.

Dr. Benjamin Steininger and Dr. Alexander Klose have been working for years on the cultural theory of petromodernity and how to overcome it. On 22 June, 22:05, their research will be presented in a film on ARTE.

Two papers in Angewandte Chemie involving several UniSysCat groups show the versatility of Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) as materials for coupled photo- and electrocatalysis.

The Science Council recommends funding for a new research building worth around 69 million euros. Four UniSysCat research groups are involved in the large project.

For his photocatalysis reseach project, UniSysCat member Bart Pieber from MPIKG in Potsdam receives 839,000 Euro funding from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.

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