UniCat - The Cluster of Excellence and its Members

Within UniCat (Unifying Concepts in Catalysis), chemists, physicists, biologists, and engineers of four universities and two Max Planck Research Institutes collaborate across disciplines and across institutional boundaries.

UniCat consists of approximately 250 members working in about 50 research groups, each headed by a full professor or a junior scientist. UniCat is an interdisciplinary research network. UniCat is the only Cluster of Excellence in Berlin and Brandenburg in natural science. The Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) is its host University.

Technische Universität Berlin Institute of Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Chemical Engineering Department of Physics Institute of Biotechnology Applied and Molecular Microbiology Bioprocess Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chemical & Process Engineering Process Dynamics and Operations
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institute of Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry Institute of Biology Structural Biology Biophysics
Freie Universität Berlin Department of Physics Institute of Chemistry
Universität Potsdam Institute of Biochemistry and Biology Biochemistry Biology
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem Department of Inorganic Chemistry Department of Chemical Physics Department of Theory
Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm Department of Colloid Chemistry


One research group of the Berlin Charité has been included into the UniCat research network: Dr. Patrick Scheerer: Protein X-ray Crystallography