The collaborative research center "HoMMage*" has already been located at TU Darmstadt and the University of Duisburg-Essen for four years. From January 2024, it will be funded by the German Research Foundation for a further four years with around 12 million euros.

We congratulate our junior professor Dr Manuel Gruber on being awarded the Gaede Prize of the German Physical Society. He receives the award "for his pioneering work on spin-crossover molecules on surfaces." Mr Gruber has been a junior professor in our Faculty of Physics for three years and is continuing his research into the spin crossover of single molecules.

The new school laboratory at UDE delves into the world of extremely small energy particles: In the QuantumSchoolLab, students use lasers to get to the bottom of exciting phenomena in quantum technology. The digital equipment of the laboratory with interactive learning stations that support augmented reality is now being subsidised by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with EU funds totalling almost 45,000 euros.

After a successful test last year, an official "Energy Science" project course has been running for the first time since the beginning of the school year in collaboration with the Karl Ziegler School in Mülheim. Anyone familiar with our faculty will know that the name of the project course is no coincidence - we have had a degree programme of the same name for over 10 years.