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Minerva’s Daughters

Minerva’s Daughters

February 28, 2025
Our building management team has become more female, as Jennifer Weber has been supporting the team as a draughtswoman and plan administrator for almost a year now. She explains where her interest in architecture came from in the Minerva's Daughters interview.
100 Years of Fischer-Tropsch Process
From 5 to 7 May 2025, Mülheim an der Ruhr will become a meeting place for international researchers from science and industry: A top-class scientific conference will honour the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis - a chemical process for the production of liquid fuels that was discovered 100 years ago at our institute and is more relevant than ever today.

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Over the past two years, we have regularly introduced you to Minerva's daughters — the women at our institute. Now  it is time to offer a platform to Minerva's sons — the men at our institute, too. We will start with Markus Kochius from the Magnetic ...

Bringing science and industry together - that is the aim of DECHEMA, the Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, which has now organised a major international conference in Mülheim together with the MPI for Chemical Energyconversion, the ...

Shalini Yadav, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, has received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to advance her computational chemistry research on enzymes.

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Events

Prof. Yang Yang (UCSB)

Jun 25, 2025 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Lecture Hall Building, Entrance Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Room: Grand Lecture Hall

Student-Led Conference (StuCon)

Aug 27, 2025 - Aug 29, 2025
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung

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Research and work
The focus of the research at the MPI für Kohlenforschung is on cutting edge topics in the field of chemical transformations. Cooperation of specialists in many areas is mandatory for maintaining a top level in our fundamental research, the ultimate goal of all research efforts at institute. You want to join our team? This is where you find information on our career opportunities.
Apprentice Program
The Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung provides apprenticeships for professional training in different disciplines. Technicians for chemical and physical laboratories as well as mechanics and office workers are educated according to highest standards. At present, about 30 apprentices ...

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