Homepage Events 2025 2025 Ernst Haage Award 2025 Date: Nov 7, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM - 02:00 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 Program and time tbd [more] MBLA Lecture Tour: Professor Koji Kubota (Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University) tbd Date: Oct 8, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Professor Koji Kubota (Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University) 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 [more] 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 [more] 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] Prof. Yang Yang (UCSB) „New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis” Date: Jun 25, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Yang Yang (UCSB, US) 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 [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 will be provided shortly beforehand Host: ORCA Group Contact: orca-cfp@kofo.mpg.de [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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) tbd 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more] 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 [more]