New Chair at the Institute of Organic Chemistry

Christoph Lambert holds the new chair but he is not unknown at all in Würzburg. In 1999, at the age of 33, he was appointed C3-professor at the University of Würzburg as the youngest professor in Bavaria. After ten very successful years he is harvesting now the fruits of his labor as a researcher, teacher and dean of studies. He even had the choice between a very attractive offer for a chair at the Kekulé Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Bonn and the offer from Würzburg.

Insiders will not be surprised that the decision was made up for Würzburg, the Institute of Chemistry being among the top addresses in Germany. The latest Shanghai ranking even places Würzburg’s chemistry faculty 37th worldwide and 2nd in Germany. Moreover, Würzburg’s attractiveness is best documented by the fact that Prof. Anke Krüger recently rejected an offer for a professorship at the University of Aachen, and Prof. Frank Würthner even rejected two offers for chairs at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Heidelberg, despite the fact, that all three belong to the small group of German "elite universities".

Professor Lambert intends to use the new opportunities to intensify his research in the field of time-resolved spectroscopy and organic materials for photovoltaic applications. Thus, basic research and application objectives will be merged and "Physical Organic Chemistry," which has a long tradition in Würzburg, will be newly interpreted as the physicochemical characterization of organic functional materials