The research group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Huber (RUB) is developing new methods using halogen bridges for catalysis in collaboration with the group of CENIDE member Prof. Dr. Jochen Niemeyer (UDE). For this purpose, the team's project "Teaching a new dog new tricks - Asymmetric organocatalysis based on halogen-and chalcogen-bonding" is funded by the Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR) with approximately 140,000 euros.

On September 30, the engineers on the Duisburg campus will open their labs and present their brilliant experiment show. For the tinkerers at the UDE, the main thing is to get visitors active themselves. In addition, engineering students can make important contacts at a career fair.

Prof. Hari Srikanth (University of South Florida, USA) is one of only five researchers to receive the 2022 Humboldt Research Award. The award is linked to a research stay at a German institute of his choice. Srikanth has chosen to pursue physics at UDE. In particular, his work complements the spectrum of the large research network TRR270 "HoMMage" on magnetic materials for efficient energy conversion.