UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence

🇺🇦 UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence offers help for scientists from #Ukraine working in related research areas. Our participating institutions offer a range of support services. We're happy to help coordinate collaborations. #Science4Ukraine For more info, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eVE_CVa8 If you are interested in establishing scientific cooperation with scientists from Ukraine, we recommend the event „#Berlin4Ukraine: Meet & Learn - A networking event for exile researchers“ on June 30, 2022. https://lnkd.in/evFGqqb7 #Berlin #BR50 #ExcellenceClusters #Support4Ukraine #Networking #Science #Berlinevents #Event

💚 #UniSysCat PostDoc Benjamin Steininger has been interviewed for the magazine GEO 1/2025. He talks about the difficulties of moving away from fossil fuels: “We don't just have oil in our tanks, we also have it in our minds”. In the interview, Steininger speaks about #petromodernity, the era of fossil raw materials, the end of which is now approaching. He talks about our strong dependency on oil, its deeply ambivalent character and explains why phasing out fossil fuels will be more difficult than many environmental activists claim. Dr. Benjamin Steininger is a cultural theorist, historian of science and technology and curator. He works as a PostDoc at UniSysCat and at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and does research on the petromodern era, the age of fossil raw materials, and the role of catalysis in this period and the post-petromodern era into which we are currently embarking. 🗞️ The journal is until mid January on stock at almost every German kiosk or train station. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQMKw_P7 #catalysis #energy #Petromoderne #petrochemistry #chemistry #sciencenews #research #GEO #GEOmagazine #oil #Petrochemie #Chemie #Katalyse #Energie #Forschung #fossilenergy

🧪 Research Highlight: Watching nickel-based catalysts at work! A team around #UniSysCat group leader Beatriz Roldan Cuenya from the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft sheds light on the function of a Ni-N-C catalyst of great potential for the electrocatalytic reduction of #CO2. Researchers worldwide are working on the development of new catalysts to covert the greenhouse gas CO2 into valuable chemicals such as CO. Nickel-based catalysts have shown exceptional performance here. Still, their exact working mechanism remains unclear. The study presented here provides direct experimental insights into the structures formed on the surface of the catalyst and their evolution during the catalytic reaction... Read more: https://lnkd.in/gma9f-Ra Also interesting to read: Corresponding highlight article on the website of the FHI Berlin: https://lnkd.in/gjRv-UBr This study has been published in Physical Review Letters: https://lnkd.in/gDKegtMr #chemistry #physics #catalysis #CO2 #energy

🎙 Wir freuen uns über die erneute Zusammenarbeit mit dem Podcast Exzellent Erklärt! Der Podcast berichtet regelmäßig über die spannenden Projekte aller 57 Exzellenzcluster. Auch in der zweiten UniSysCat-Folge erwarten euch herausragende Gäste: 🍏 Martin Rahmel, Geschäftsführer von greenCHEM 📗 Benjamin Steininger, Forscher bei UniSysCat Die neue Folge erscheint in Kürze – stay tuned! 🗓 Entdeckt die gesamte Podcast-Reihe hier: https://lnkd.in/gcKPMwjX #ExzellentErklärt #UniSysCat #Collaboration #Podcast #Wissenschaftskommunikation #Nachhaltigkeit #Chemie

✨Last #UniSysCat colloquium of the year: On Wednesday, December 18, Prof. Dr. Oleksiy Khavryuchenko will present his research on the physical & chemical properties of amorphous carbon materials. 💡 Absolute majority of #carbon materials have undefined local structure, varying from highly-defective micro-crystalline to completely amorphous. True amorphous ones are the most enigmatic of them... ➡️https://lnkd.in/e93pEy6R You like to join? Please write to info@unisyscat.de #colloquium #chemistry #biochemistry #physics Technische Universität Berlin Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine (SNHUU) NVision Imaging Technologies

A club room full of enthusiastic young people listening intently, laughing, being amused by the funny stories on stage and who finally applaud excitedly - it was an amazing evening at the Science Slam of the Berlin clusters of excellence! You missed it? Or would you like to watch the slam again? Here you go! The recording of the Excellent Science Slam is now online on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eiM7U325 The Excellent Science Slam took place on November 7, 2024 and was part of the Berlin Science Week. We're proud to have had ten fantastic slammers: - How to Get Rid of your Potential – Gregor Pasemann (MATH+ ) - Building Blocks of the Fourth Dimension – @Chun-Sheng Hsueh (MATH+ ) - From Awe to Wonder - Designing Nature Inspired Materials – Heidi Jalkh (Matters of Activity. Image Space Material) - Exploring Epilepsy in the Human Brain: a Travel to Nowhere – Alice Podestà (NeuroCure – Cluster of Excellence) - Medical Progress in Three Acts – Niels von Wardenburg (NeuroCure – Cluster of Excellence) - A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Social Robots – Anna Lange (Science of Intelligence) - Do you feel comfortable? Reacting, reflecting, and challenging our socio-political world – Roberta Astolfi (SCRIPTS Berlin) - Frank's Casket - Thinking with and through the Box – Andrew James Johnston (#TemporalCommunities) - Teaming up with ''Ancient Guardians of Earth'' – Tamanna Ahamad (UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence) - Lighting up the Brain – Alina Pushkarev (UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence) Moderation: Jochen Müller

We had a wonderful morning this Monday at the "Career and Family in Experimental Science" Meeting. The panelists shared many valuable insights with their audience and empowered the women listing: you can have a family and still persue a career as an experimentalist! It's all about creating family-friendly working conditions, having a good team spirit and showing engagement... Thanks to all participants for coming, a big thank you to the panel and a huge thank you also to the organizing team 💚

We're pleased to announce that the Clara Immerwahr Award 2025 goes to Bonnie Murphy from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics!! Congratulations 🎉👏 Using cryo-EM and biochemical, molecular, and electrochemical techniques, Dr. Murphy works on uncovering the structure & function of proteins crucial to bioenergetic processes. The Clara Immerwahr Award Ceremony 2025 will take place on Friday, April 11, 2025, at 2 PM at Technische Universität Berlin. You're cordially invited to join! Launched in 2011, the Clara Immerwahr Award celebrates exceptional young female scientists in the field of catalysis. It honors Dr. Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), the first woman in Germany to earn a doctorate in Physical Chemistry. The award includes a €15,000 grant for a research stay at UniSysCat, fostering collaboration with its research groups. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g37R__eD #catalysis #chemistry #biochemistry #biophysics #Katalyse #Chemie #Biochemie #Biophysik

Amidst the excitement of preparing for our big alumni meeting at the end of October, an interesting excursion took place on October 17, which I would like to highlight here: On that day, a small group of our EC²/BIG-NSE and BasCat PhD students went on an excursion to visit catalytic installations at BASF Catalysts Germany GmbH in Nienburg. Emiliano (WS20 batch) had connected with one of the Nienburg department employees at the Catprep 2024 conference in Vogüé, France, in May 2024, who offered to organize the plant visit for our PhD students. The Nienburg plant specializes in functionalizing straight-channeled monolithic catalysts with precious metals, such as platinum or rhodium. Emiliano found it remarkable that the plant operates with a constant rhodium mass balance due to the high cost of the metal. "Every single gram of rhodium must be accounted for and reutilized. Objects like brooms, hoses, and gloves are stored in containers and calcined to recover any residual rhodium content," he shared. The visit was particularly valuable for Emiliano, as his PhD thesis directly focuses on monolithic catalysts. He gained insights into how properties often overlooked in the laboratory can be critically important in industrial production. For the nine other EC²/BIG-NSE PhD students who joined the excursion, the visit was equally engaging, as it offered many of them their first glimpse into an industrial production site. Considering the success of this excursion, we plan to organize similar activities in the future to foster stronger connections between academia and industry.

UniSysCat Researchers Participate In Public Engagement Training Portfolio How can I effectively engage publics in my research? What strategies can help bridge the gap between academia and broader society? These questions are guiding a group of researchers from UniSysCat who are taking part in a 9-month Public Engagement training track, offered by the Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The Training Portfolio provides researchers at all career stages comprehensive and flexible training in Public Engagement, relevant to both current and future projects. The training offers a diverse array of sessions, ranging from foundational skills to specialized topics like storytelling, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research, and interaction design. With the Portfolio UniSysCat joins a broad network of universities and research institutes within the German Public Engagement community and works towards a more open, accessible, and inclusive research culture. This partnership specifically supports our aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and enhance the societal impact of our research by equipping interested researchers with the necessary knowledge and empowering them to participate in engagement activities. To find out more about the Training offer and our work in Public Engagement, contact Antonia Aalders or Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science. 💚 #publicengagement #berlin #collaboration