UniCat colloquia with world leading scientists

(Alphabetical Order)

Prof. Geert-Jan Kroes,Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Universiteit Leiden, Holland: First principles theory for a prototype chemical reaction in Surface Science 2009-07-01

Prof. Dr. Oscar P. Kuipers,University of Groningen, Netherlands: Developing novel antibiotics against Gram-negative pathogens 2018-08-01

Prof. Adam Lange,Department of Molecular Biophysics, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie: Structures of bacterial molecular machines by solid-state NMR, EM, and other techniques 2017-07-19

Prof. Dr. Urška Lavrenčič Štangar,School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica: Efficient mineralization of aqueous organic pollutants by photocatalytic ozonation 2016-06-29

Prof. Peter Leadlay,Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK: Molecular Assembly Lines for Drug Biosynthesis - Adventures in Synthetic Biology 2009-02-11

Prof. Peter Leadlay,Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK: Alexander-von-Humboldt Awardee: 'Where will new antibiotics come from?' 2013-04-10

Prof. Peter Leadlay,Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK: and Alexander-von-Humboldt Lecture: 'Towards sustainable chemistry: assembly-line biocatalysis as a route to new pharmaceuticals' 2012-05-30

Prof. Jaeyoung Lee,Ertl center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis and School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea: Understanding Underlying Processes in Formic Acid Fuel Cells 2011-11-02

Prof. Dr. Aiwen Lei,College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China: Green Oxidative Cross-Coupling using Visible-light: From O2 to Oxidant-free 2017-02-08

Prof. Walter Leitner,(RWTH Aachen, MPI für Kohleforschung): "Green Solvents" for Catalysis - From Molecular Understanding to Reaction Engineering Concepts 2008-10-29

Dr. Marga Lensen,RWTH Aachen, Germany: Micro- and Nanopatterned Surfaces for Specific Biointeraction 2008-02-13

Prof. H.-H. Limbach,Institute for Physical Chemistry, FU Berlin: NMR studies of hydrogen transfer and bonding: from model systems and materials to enzymes 2007-04-18

Prof. Antoni Llobet,Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain: Water oxidation catalyzed by ruthenium complexes 2009-01-16

Dr. Elisabeth Lojou,CNRS, Marseille, France: Hydrogenases as catalysts for fuel cells: strategies for efficient immobilization at electrode interfaces 2010-07-14

Prof. Dr. Paul J. Low,University of Western Australia: Applications of cross-coupling reactions in the design of model systems for studies of electron transfer, mixed-valency and Moore 2015-11-18

Prof. Petra Lucht,Fakulty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, TU Berlin: Invitation to 'A room with a view' on unifying concepts in catalysis: Reflections on how to bridge scientific, societal and gender issues 2009-06-30

Prof. Dr. Debabrata Maiti,Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India: Selectively Reaching Out to Distal Places 2018-06-25

Prof. Mohamed A. Marahiel,Universität Marburg: Introducing Lasso Peptides as a Molecular Scaffold for Drug Design 2015-02-04

Prof. Laurent Maron,Laboratoire de Physique et Chemie de Nano-Objets, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France: Can redox chemistry of divalent lanthanide and trivalent uranium complexes be catalytic ? Some insights from theory 2013-07-10

Prof. Dr. Clément Mazet,Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva: Iridium and palladium hydrides in selective isomerizations 2017-02-15

Dr. Stéphane Ménage,CEA Grenoble: A bio inspired approach for catalytic oxidations: mimicking biocatalysis and photosynthesis 2016-02-17

Prof. Horia Metiu,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA: Catalyst activation by molecular sized centers 2009-07-15

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vera Meyer,Department of Applied and Molecular Microbiology, Institut for Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin: Aspergillus niger: a cell factory with unlimited prospects 2014-01-08

Prof. Josef Michl,Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic: Singlet Fission: An Obscure and Inefficient Process, or a Boon for Mankind? 2011-06-15

Prof. David Milstein,The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel: Design of New Catalytic Reactions Based on Metal-Ligand Cooperation 2009-10-28