Mar 21, 2025
Doctoral student receives poster prize at Bunsen Tagung 2025
Senior Professor Reinhard Zellner from the University of Duisburg-Essen during his presentation.
Every year, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry brings together scientists from all over Germany for discussions at the Bunsen-Tagung. The conference is named after Robert Bunsen, a German chemist and physicist known for his work in the field of physical chemistry. This year, around 360 physical chemists met for the 124th time. Under the wide-ranging title "Physical Chemistry of the Climate and the Atmosphere", there were 110 presentations to marvel at Leipzig University from March 17 to 19, 2025. Senior Professor Reinhard Zellner from the University of Duisburg-Essen kicked off the topic of green hydrogen.
Doctoral student Stefan Röher with his awarded poster.
The Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group was represented here by doctoral student Stefan Röher (Project G2: Functionalized carbon materials and operando analysis for the molecular understanding of electrocatalytic activation of oxygen and hydrogen), whose poster drew attention to the in-depth research within precious metal-free catalysts for the hydrogen economy and was awarded the poster prize at the Bunsen-Tagung. Several presentations addressed relevant topics such as the adsorption of gases, electrocatalysis and analysis using spectroscopy. The combination of topics and the discussions after the lectures and at the poster led to a good scientific exchange in the field of physical chemistry.
Physical chemistry plays a central role in the development of sustainable research. It combines chemical reactions with material physics, electric and magnetic fields, thermal analysis, light emission and absorption and much more. This made the Bunsen-Tagung 2025 an important building block in the scientific discourse on a sustainable future.
Doctoral student Stefan Röher (centre) with the poster prize for the presentation of his research in the field of precious metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction.