2025

Prof. Tanja Gulder (Universität des Saarlands)

Halogen Atoms as Directing Tools: From Reactivity to Bioactive Compounds
  • Date: Dec 3, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Tanja Gulder (Universität des Saarlands)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

JCF Christmas Lecture with: Prof. Metin Tolan

  • Date: Nov 27, 2025
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Metin Tolan
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hörsaalgebäude, Eingang Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Large Seminar Room, 3rd floor, CEC
  • Host: Young Chemists Forum of the GDCh (JCF)
  • Contact: muelheim@jcf.io
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GDCh Lecture: Prof. Adam Slabon (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, DE)

Green, Fast & Furious: Sustainable Materials for Catalysis
  • Date: Nov 13, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Adam Slabon (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, DE)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Christian Lehmann
  • Contact: lehmann@kofo.mpg.de

Ernst Haage Award 2025

  • Date: Nov 7, 2025
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
Keynote Lecture Dr. Josep Cornellà Advancig Bimsuth Redox Catalysis NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS Dr Terrance J. Hadlington (TU München) PRIZE FOR POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS Dr. Maximilian Hielscher, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Waldvogel) Dr. Liqun Kang, MPI für Chemische Energiekonversion PRIZE FOR APPRENTICES Jana Brylak (Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion) Joel Bicker (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung) Prior registration for the award ceremony is required. Registration for the event is possible on our website until 31.10.2025: https://www.cec.mpg.de/en/institute/ernst-haage-award/registrierung [more]

Prof. Christo Sevov (Ohio State University)

  • Date: Nov 5, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Christo Sevov (Ohio State University)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Liebig Lecture: Prof. Renana Gershoni-Poranne (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, IL)

Mission ImPASsible: Decoding Polycyclic Aromatic Systems with Deep Learning
  • Date: Oct 16, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Renana Gershoni-Poranne (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, IS)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese
  • Contact: neese@kofo.mpg.de
Time and title tbd [more]

MBLA Lecture Tour: Dr. Koji Kubota (Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JP)

"Exploring Synthetic Mechanochemistry"
  • Date: Oct 8, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Koji Kubota (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JP
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. List
  • Contact: kaltsidis@kofo.mpg.de
"Exploring Synthetic Mechanochemistry" [more]

Institute Seminar "Start-up-Edition" with presentations from MechSyn, Minerva Carbon, and Faccts

  • Date: Sep 26, 2025
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: diverse
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese
  • Contact: neese@kofo.mpg.de

Summer School: Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Complexes | September 7 - 12, 2025

  • Start: Sep 7, 2025 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 12, 2025 11:15 AM
  • Speaker: diverse
  • Location: Mülheim Chemistry Campus, Lemkestraße 7
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall of the Kohlenforschung and at the MPI CEC
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese & Prof. Dr. Serena DeBeer

Student-Led Conference (StuCon)

Student-Led Conference (StuCon)
  • Start: Aug 27, 2025
  • End: Aug 29, 2025
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Networking, knowledge transfer and career planning: StuCon 2025 brings students and alumni together [more]

ORCA 6.1 Release Event

ORCA 6.1 Release Event
  • Date: Jun 17, 2025
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 06:50 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Online presentation
  • Room: Zoom link below
  • Host: ORCA Group
  • Contact: orca-cfp@kofo.mpg.de

Karl Ziegler Guest Professorship 2025 - Award Lecture with Prof. Dr. Craig Crews, Yale University

PROTACs and Targeted Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutic Modality (Official Ziegler Lecture)
  • Date: May 13, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Craig Crews, Yale University
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: schiffhorst@kofo.mpg.de

Karl Ziegler Lecture 2025 - Seminar

A Glue Here, a TAC There: Bringing Proteins Together as Drug Modalities
  • Date: May 12, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Craig Crews, Yale University
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: schiffhorst@kofo.mpg.de

100 Years Fischer-Tropsch Process

100 Years Fischer-Tropsch Process
  • Start: May 5, 2025
  • End: May 7, 2025
  • Location: Stadthalle Mülheim, Am Schloß Broich 2-4, 45479 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Host: DECHEMA

Dr. Ina Vollmer (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

„Mechano-catalytic Depolymerization of Polyolefins”
  • Date: Mar 24, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Ina Vollmer (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Schüth
  • Topic: Lectures
  • Contact: kalischer@kofo.mpg.de

Institute Seminar with Awarding of the Thiel Prize 2024

  • Date: Mar 21, 2025
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: diverse
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese
Awarding of the Thiel Prize 2024, talks and Poster Session [more]

Prof. Xiaodong Zou (Stockholm University, SE)

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  • Date: Mar 19, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Xiaodong Zou (Stockholm University, SE)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Prof.Yujiro Hayashi, Tohoku University, JP

Organocatalysis and Pot-Economical Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules
  • Date: Mar 13, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Yujiro Hayashi, Tohoku University, JP
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Chemistry Frontiers@the Kohlenforschung
  • Contact: neumann@kofo.mpg.de

Charity Vernissage of the Lions Club Mülheim/Ruhr-Leinpfad together with the MPI für Kohlenforschung

Charity Vernissage of the Lions Club Mülheim/Ruhr-Leinpfad together with the MPI für Kohlenforschung
  • Date: Feb 16, 2025
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hörsaalgebäude, Eingang Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Grand Lecture Hall
  • Host: Lions-Club Mülheim/Ruhr-Leinpfad
  • Contact: kalischer@kofo.mpg.de

Prof. Felipe Garcia, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

"Mechanochemistry of Main Group Compounds: From Molecules to Catalysis"
  • Date: Feb 5, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Felipe Garcia
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Room: Small Lecture Hall
  • Host: Dr. Michael Felderhoff
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: felderhoff@kofo.mpg.de
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