For the first time after decades, a scientist from the Congo was present at the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau: Blaise Kimbadi Lombe, a PhD student of chemistry from the University of Würzburg. This may be considered as a further success of the BEBUC Excellence Scholarship Program.

PhD candidate Moritz Dechant was awarded one of three poster prices for his outstanding poster design and the clear discussion at the European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC).

After 30 very successful years of research on the chemistry of natural products, the Chair of Organic Chemistry I will tackle new scientific challenges: Functionalising nucleic acids for labelling, detection and visualization of biomolecules.

From May 25 to 28 Prof. Gerhard Bringmann and his partner Prof. Virima Mudogo will present their Excellence Scholarship Programme BEBUC at this year's Africa Festival, the largest and oldest festival for African music and culture in Europe.

Student representative of the Keylab of “Solar Technology Go Hybrid”, Marcus Schulze, member of the working group of Prof. Frank Würthner,

Prof. Frank Würthner has been elected member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Both academies are thus honouring Würthner’s outstanding scientific achievements.

The Free State of Bavaria sustainably promotes university-based research.

Prof. Eichii Nakamura not only impressed the audience of the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2017 with unique movies of molecules in motion but also demonstrated his excellent skills as a baroque flute player.

British and German scientist met for the second time during three days for a joint conference of both national Liquid Crystal Societies BLCS and DFKG, in which all aspects of the modern, interdisciplinary research area “Liquid Crystals” from the life sciences over the materials research to theory has been discussed thoroughly. The project of the binational symposium, which has been established from the two national topical meetings, has been assessed as a value-added European collaboration, from which especially the rising generation of young liquid crystal researchers benefits. The international participants have been enthusiastic and inspired by the unique historical event location, the Tuscany Hall of the Residence, which Würzburg could offer to its guests.

Nicolas Zigon is originally from France – he took a detour via Japan to Germany. At the University of Würzburg, the postdoc studies supramolecular systems at the Institute of Organic Chemistry.

"Chemistry: A Bridge between Molecular World and Real World" is the title of this year’s lecture on April 27. Prof. Nakamura, internationally renowned chemist from the University of Tokyo, is going to give his audience an overview of more than 35 years of extraordinarily successful research in his laboratories.

The Second German-British Liquid Crystal Conference will be held from 3.-5. April 2017 in Würzburg. It is organized by Prof. Matthias Lehmann and his team.

Frank Würthner received the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt-Award of the Real Sociedad Española de Química. Therefore, Würthner recently gave lectures at three Spanish research institutions.

On Monday, 5th of December, Dr. Florian Beuerle successfully finished his habilitation on "Design and Synthesis of Complex Molecular Architectures Based on Small Organic Molecules" and received the "facultas docendi".

Frank Würthner is one of the four professors from the University of Würzburg that have been identified as "highly cited researchers". The US media corporation Thomson Reuters awards this title to researchers whose work receives exceptional attention worldwide and is highly cited by other scientists.