The Division of Senior Expert Chemists strengthens the understanding of chemistry across generations.

The Division of Senior Expert Chemists is active. It organizes and offers easily understandable Online lectures for everyone. The program is diverse and covers all areas of chemistry in science and industry, as well as current topics that affect society and politics. The lectures take place monthly at 3 p.m.

2025

 

• January 14, 2025 Stefan Gürtzgen: Renewable Energies – Technological Foundations and Significance for Sustainable Living on Our Planet
• February 18, 2025 Klemens Minn: Our path to the new herbicide Indaziflam - Industrial development of a plant protection product
• March 18, 2025 Bernhard Blümich: Compact on-site NMR: Non-destructive material testing, cultural heritage and chemical analysis
• April 15, 2025 Frauke Zbikowski: Communicating with laypeople in the natural sciences
• May 13, 2025 Werner Hofmann: Where does medical progress come from?
• June 17, 2025 Kurt Wagemann: Hydrogen – what role will it play in achieving Germany's climate goals?
• 15.07.2025 Dieter HE Kunz: Opportunities and limitations of plastics recycling
• September 16, 2025 Ursula Hoeppener-Kramar: From the Big Bang to Radiation Protection
• October 7, 2025 Franz Bracher: From nature to bedside. The importance of natural substances in the development of cytostatic drugs
• November 11, 2025 Klaus Roth: How will you finally win the Nobel Prize?
• December 2, 2025 Ekkehard Schwab: Energies – our lifeblood

 

2024

 

• January 16, 2024, Klaus-Dieter Jany: From stem cell to structured piece of meat
• February 20, 2024 Helmut Ritter: Functional polymers in research and practice: What would we be without them?
• March 19, 2024 Andreas Wolf: Chemistry of silicone sealants – more complex than you think
• April 9, 2024 Günther Kempe: Food scandals – residue analysis
  May 28, 2024 Vladimir Reshetilovsky: Multifunctionality in heterogeneous catalysis
• June 18, 2024 Hendrik Emons: Analytical Chemistry for the Design and Monitoring of European Legislation
• July 23, 2024 Eberhard Ehlers: Drugs and addiction – a problem in all societies
• September 17, 2024 Ekkehard Schwab: Magnetic tape – What became of it?
  October 8, 2024 Gerhard Kreysa: Strategies for the decarbonization of the atmosphere
• November 12, 2024 Renate Kießling: The Chemical Society of the GDR and its actors
• December 3, 2024 Bernhard Fritz: Contact with food – laws, physics, chemistry

 

2023

 

• January 10, 2023 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Let there be light – LEDs, LCDs and OLEDs
• February 14, 2023 Gerhard Heywang: The chemistry between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m.
• March 21, 2023 Ekkehard Schwab: Raw material change in the chemical industry
• April 18, 2023 Klaus Roth: Dieter Oesterhelt (1940-2022) and his Bacteriorhodopsin
• May 16, 2023 Michael Röper: Homogeneous catalysis in the chemical industry
• June 20, 2023 Petra Schultheiß-Reimann: Lithium: the white gold of the Andes
• July 18, 2023 Dieter Kunz: Pyrolysis of used tires for carbon black recovery
• September 19, 2023 Ludwig Kuhlmann: Variability of analytical methods – the crux of the matter with individual values
• October 10, 2023 Gisela Boeck: Ferdinand Runge (1794-1867) – and the formative drive of materials
• November 7, 2023 Vladimir Reshetilovsky: Microstructured reactors for process optimization
• November 28, 2023 Roland Bitsch: Water - Source of Life

 

2022

 

• January 18, 2022 Ludwig Kuhlmann: radionuclides - Helpers of Mankind
• February 15, 2022 Ekkehard Schwab: Industrial heterogeneous catalysis
• March 8, 2022 Otto Machhammer: German energy transition - What's next?
• April 5, 2022 Gerhard Heywang: Egg, egg, egg - Interesting facts about eggs
• May 24, 2022 Roland Bitsch: Critical vitamins and vulnerable population groups in Germany
• June 21, 2022 Eberhard Ehlers: The widespread disease diabetes and its therapy
• July 12, 2022 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Chemistry for Energy Storage Technologies
• September 13, 2022 Michael Röper: Chemical use of carbon dioxide - What is possible and what makes sense?
• October 11, 2022 Gerhard Heywang: The tongue - a jack-of-all-trades
• November 8, 2022 Gisela Boeck: Latvian, Russian, or German? Organic scientist, physical chemist, or historian? The life and work of Paul Walden (1863–1957)
• November 29, 2022 Eberhard Ehlers: Nature as a source of new pharmaceutical agents

 

2021

 

• January 19, 2021 Eberhard Ehlers: Women in the Natural Sciences
• March 2, 2021 Klaus-Dieter Jany: Genetic engineering in everyday life – not just in vaccination
• March 30, 2021 Thomas Brock: Modern, environmentally friendly types of paint – production, properties, areas of application
• April 27, 2021 Dieter Kunz: Plastic Waste – Knowledge and Speculation
• May 18, 2021 Ekkehard Schwab: Energy – our elixir of life – where it comes from, where it goes
• June 22, 2021 Gerhard Kreysa; Strategies, visions and illusions for saving the climate
• July 6, 2021 Gisela Boeck: "You will have received my little atomic swindle" – Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) – His life and work
• September 2, 2021 Klaus-Dieter Jany: “CRISPR/Cas and Co.” – The new methods for modifying genetic information – Quo vadis? – Is the EU losing ground in science and industry?
• September 28, 2021 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Music for the Eye – Color, Gloss and Function of Modern Color Pigments
• October 19, 2021 Hartwig Müller: Small molecules, big impact - trace gases in the atmosphere
• November 23, 2021 Helmut Ritter: Sweet Cyclodextrins – Artful Host-Guest Chemistry and Practical Applications