List of GDCh Colloquia

Venue:
Lecture hall in the new chemistry building of the TUD Dresden University of Technology, Bergstraße 66, room CHE/091 or as indicated in the announcement.

GDCh colloquia in the summer semester 2026

• 25.06.2026, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Inez Weidiger, Dresden University of Technology, Chair of Elektrochemistry
  Titel: “Where Protons and Electrons Meet: Principles of Electrocatalytic Reactions”
• 11.06.2026, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Daniel Wefers, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Food Chemistry
  Titel: “Bacterial exopolysaccharides under the magnifying glass”
• 21.05.2026, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Nils Helge Schebb, University of Wuppertal, Head of the Department of Food Chemistry
  Titel: "Oxidized Fatty Acids (Oxylipins) in Food and Human Health"
• 30.04.2026, 17:00 h
  Professor Dr. Stephen K Hashmi, Universität Heidelberg, Organische Chemie
  Titel: "Gold Catalysis: Catalysts, Methodology Development, Mechanisms, Applications"

GDCh colloquia in the winter semester 2025/26

• 15.01.2026, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Juri Grin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
  Titel: “Chemical Bonding in Intermetallic Compounds in the Light of Electron Density"
• 11.12.2025, 17:00 h, Special colloquium to mark the retirement of Prof. Alexander Eychmüller
  ATTENTION: Venue: Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW), lecture hall, 1st floor
  Director of Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Potsdam
  Titel: “New Effects based on the Control of Nanospace Disruptive Energy Storage and New Catalysis"
• Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti,
• 27.11.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Stefan Hecht, Einstein-Professor at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Founding Director of the Center for the Science of Materials Berlin, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-University Berlin
  Titel: “Molecular Photoswitches to Light-up Materials, Devices, and 3D-Printing” 
• 06.11.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Maria Buchweitz, Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Hamburg
  Titel: “Polyphenole unter der Lupe: So wirken sie sich auf den Verdau und ernährungsphysiologische Eigenschaften von Proteinen und Stärke aus.”
• 16.10.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Dorothea Fiedler, Executive Director of the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) und Professor at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Head of the Fiedler Group
  Titel: “Elucidating the function of unusual phosphorylation modes in eukaryotic cells"

GDCh colloquia in the summer semester 2025

• 03.07.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. J.C. (Chris) Slootweg, Universität von Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences,Titel: “Smarter Chemistry: Green, Circular and Safe by Design"
• 08.05.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Sjoerd Harder, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic ChemistryTitel: “Chemistry with Zero-Valent Main-Group Metals” 
• 10.04.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Daniel Maspoch, Katalanisches Institut für Nanowissenschaft und Nanotechnologie, Barcelona/SpanienTitel: “Clip-off Chemistry: Synthesis by Bond Cleavage"

GDCh colloquia in the winter semester 2024/25

• 30.01.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Robert Wolf, University of Regensburg, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
  Titel: “New Avenues to Phosphines: White Phosphorus Functionalization via Main Group and Photoredox Catalysis…"
• 16.01.2025, 17:00 h
  Prof. Monika Pischetsrieder, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, FAU Research Center New Bioactive Compounds – FAU NeW, Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt Chair of Food Chemistry
  Titel: “Peptide Fingerprints of Food - Implications for Quality, Bioactivity and Authenticity Control” 
• 12.12.2024, 17:00 h Farewell colloquium
  Prof. Tobias Gulder, Chair of Technical Biochemistry, Technische Universität Dresden
  Titel: “Bioengineering and Biocatalysis for Complex Molecule Discovery and Synthesis”
  Five Years of Technical Biochemistry in Dresden
• 28.11.2024, 17:00 Uhr
  Prof. Armido Studer, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, University of Münster
  Titel: “Radical Water Activation and Pyridine C–H-Functionalization”

GDCh colloquia in the summer semester 2024

• 18.07.2024, 17:00 h, Farewell Colloquium → ATTENTION: Canceled! Postponement to winter semester 2024/25
  Prof. Tobias Gulder, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Chair of Technical Biochemistry
  Title: "Bioengineering and Biocatalysis for Complex Molecule Discovery and Synthesis"
  Five Years of Technical Biochemistry in Dresden
• 05.07.2024 (Please note: Friday), 16:00 h, Special colloquium on the occasion of Prof. Knölker's retirement, lecture hall CHE/089
  Dr. René Martin, ABX Advanced Biochemical Compounds, Radeberg
  Title: "Radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of serious diseases"
  Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Boland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena
  Title: "Metal cations control terpene biosynthesis: Cobalt(II) and Mg(II) ions determine the chain length of prenyl diphosphates in insects"
• 27.06.2024, 17:00 h
  Prof. Catharine Esterhuysen, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  Title: "The role of intermolecular interactions in chemical processes"
• 20.06.2024, 17:00 h
  Prof. José Goicoechea, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington
  Title: "The Cyaphide Ion: A New Building Block for Chemical Synthesis"
• 12.02.2024, 17:00 h, extraordinary colloquium
  Prof. Guy Bertrand, University of California San Diego
  Title: "Carbenes as Powerful Transition-Metal Surrogates"

GDCh colloquia in the winter semester 2023/24

• 11.01.2024, 16:30 h

  Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch, FRSC, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart, Nanochemistry Department
  Title: "Optoelectronics meets optoionics: Energy conversion and light storage in 2D carbon nitrides and oxides"

• 14.12.2023, 17:00 h

  Prof. Dr. Antonio Frontera Beccaria, Department of Chemistry, University of the Balearic Islands (UIB),
  Title: "Supramolecular Assemblies Directed by Unconventional Interactions Involving Metals"

• 28.11.2023 (Tuesday! Please note!), 17:00 h

  Prof. Dr. Richiro Ushimaru, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
  Title: "Three-membered ring formation by nonheme iron enzymes"

• 02.11.2023, 17:00 h

  Prof. Dr. Takahiro Sasamori, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  Title: "Chemistry of Low coordinated Heavier Main Group Element: C vs. Si"

• 12.10.2023, 13:00 h, special event
  The GDCh commemorates historical sites of chemistry - The historical dye collection at the Technical University in the König Building

GDCh colloquia in the summer semester 2023

• 06.07.2023, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Mirko Bunzel, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Department of Food Chemistry and Phytochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  Title: "Chromatographic and spectroscopic methods for the analysis of plant cell wall polysaccharides and their degradation products"
• 04.07.2023, 17:00 h, Lecture Hall CHE/089
  Prof. Dr. Len Barbour, Stellenbosch University
  Title: "Thermal stability of molecular inclusion compounds - from one extreme to another"
• 15.06.2023, 17:00
  Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture
  Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bach, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Munich
  Title: "Enantioselective Reactions in the Excited State"
• 11.05.2023, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Erick M. Carreira, Head of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich
  Title: "Strategies and Tactics in Natural Products as an Engine for Discovery ..."
• 27.04.2023, 17:00 h, Lecture hall CHE/089
  Academic celebration and GDCh colloquium in honor of the 70th birthday of Prof. Gotthard Seifert
  Prof. Dr. David Tománek,Professor emeritus at Michigan State University, Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Johannesburg
  Title: "When nanocarbon dreams come true"
• 13.04.2023, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Tomislav Friščić, School of Chemistry, Leverhulme International Chair in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, University of Birmingham
  Title: "Per aspera ad astra: the opportunities of the solid state for greener, sustainable synthesis and materials design"

GDCh colloquia in the winter semester 2022/23

• 05.01.2023, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Thorsten Stumpf, Institute for Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf/TU Dresden
  Title: "Nuclear repository: Basic research on the site selection process"
• 08.12.2022, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schnick, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  Title: "Adventures with nitrides - detours, surprises and rewards"
• ATTENTION: Lecture unfortunately canceled
  03.11.2022, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Takahiro Sasamori, Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Title: "Chemistry of Low-coordinated Heavier Main Group Element: C vs Si"

GDCh colloquia in the summer semester 2022

• 14.07.2022, 17:00 h

  Prof. Dr. Marcus Scheele, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,

  University of Tuebingen

  Title: "Nanocrystals, mesocrystals, supercrystals - a toolbox for materials with collective optoelectronic effects?"

• 16.06.2022, 17:00 h
  Prof. Dr. Henning Jessen, Chair of Bioorganic Chemistry,
  Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

  Title: "Lost in condensation: poly, cyclo, and ultraphosphates"

• 12.05.2022, 17:00 h

  Prof. Dr. Michael Müller, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences,

  Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg

  Title: "Biocatalytic regio- and stereoselective oxidative phenol coupling"

• Postponement of the event planned for 20.01.2022 due to the current corona incidence figures and the associated regulations to the coming summer semester (date will be announced here as soon as possible) (background: as this is Prof. Bernd Plietker's inaugural lecture, it was decided not to redesign it as a purely digital format)
  New Year and Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Bernd Plietker, Chair of Organic Chemistry I, TUD Dresden University of Technology
  Title: "20 years later: From natural product synthesis to metal catalysis and back" (link will be added shortly)

GDCh colloquia in the winter semester 2021/22

• 25.03.2022, 15:00 h,  Festive colloquium in honor of Prof. Hans-Jürgen Adler, Barkhausenbau, lecture hall BAR205 (directly opposite the Mensa Mommsenstraße)
  Program (subject to possible changes due to Corona or other reasons):
  1. welcome (N.N.)

  2nd Prof. Dr. Yan Lu (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Materialien und Energie, Berlin): "Colloid process engineering for energy materials"

  3rd Prof. Dr. Andrij Pich (RWTH Aachen): "From reactive polymer dispersions to interactive polymer materials"

  4 Prof. Dr. Dirk Kuckling (Paderborn University): "Stimuli-responsive polymers - update in Paderborn"

  5. prof. dr. h.c. mult. Klaus Müllen (University of Mainz): "Innovation and chemistry"
• 18.11.2021, 5:00 pm
  Prof. Joshua Goldberger, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
  Title: "Next-Level Layered Materials" (recording)

Activities already held by GDCh and JCF in Dresden can be found in retrospect under GDCh reviews and recordings of the lectures (access with ZIH login).