Online lectures

Senior chemists share their knowledge

Bringing current scientific topics closer to its members in understandable language is a trademark of the Division of Senior Expert Chemists. With the Online lecture series "Senior Chemists Share Their Knowledge" we are bringing this trademark to life. To do this we draw on a treasure trove of over 100 generally understandable lectures from 36 speakers. The " School Education Career " working group offers these lectures to schools and other educational institutions as part of the "School Partnerships " project.

Online lectures 2025

The lectures will take place every Tuesday at 3 p.m. in 2025.

Date	lecture	title	Moderation
January 14, 2025	Stefan Gürtzgen	Renewable energies – technological foundations and significance for sustainable life on our planet	G. Kreysa
February 18, 2025	Klemens Minn	Our path to the new herbicide Indaziflam - Industrial development of a crop protection product	KD Jany
March 18, 2025	Bernhard Blümich	Compact on-site NMR: Non-destructive materials testing, cultural heritage and chemical analysis	E. Wille
April 15, 2025	Frauke Zbikowski	Communicating with scientific laypeople	E. Wille
May 13, 2025	Werner Hofmann	Where does medical progress come from?	P. Schultheiß-Reimann
June 17, 2025	Kurt Wagemann	Hydrogen – what role will it play in achieving Germany’s climate goals?	E. Wille
July 15, 2025	Dieter HE Kunz	Opportunities and limitations of plastics recycling	W. Gerhartz
September 16, 2025	Ursula Hoeppener	From the Big Bang to radiation protection	P. Schultheiß-Reimann
October 7, 2025	Franz Bracher	From nature to bedside. The importance of natural substances in the development of cytostatics	E. Ehlers
November 11, 2025	Klaus Roth	How do you finally win the Nobel Prize?	W. Gerhartz
December 2, 2025	E. Schwab	Energies – our elixir of life	W. Gerhartz

Archive: Online lectures 2024-2021

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 for all societies
September 17, 2024	Ekkehard Schwab	Magnetic tape – what has become of it?
October 8, 2024	Gerhard Kreysa	Strategies for decarbonizing 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
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 to recover soot
September 19, 2023	Ludwig Kuhlmann	Variability of analytical methods – the crux of the matter
October 10, 2023	Gisela Boeck	Ferdinand Runge (1794-1867) – and the formative drive of materials
November 7, 2023	Vladimir Reshetilovsky	Microstructure reactors for process optimization
November 28, 2023	Roland Bitsch	Water – source of life
2022
January 18, 2022	Ludwig Kuhlmann	radionuclides - Human Helpers
February 15, 2022	Ekkehard Schwab	Industrial heterogeneous catalysis
March 8, 2022	Otto Machhammer	German energy transition – what should happen next?
05.04.2022	Gerhard Heywang	Egg, egg, egg - Interesting facts about eggs
May 24, 2022	Roland Bitsch	Critical vitamins and vulnerable population groups in Germany
21.06.2022	Eberhard Ehlers	The widespread disease diabetes and its treatment
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 chemist, 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 active ingredients
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 3-4 pm!	Thomas Brock	Modern, environmentally friendly paints – production, properties, areas of application
27.04.2021	Dieter Kunz	Plastic waste – knowledge and speculation
May 18, 2021	Ekkehard Schwab	Energy our elixir of life – where it comes from, where it goes
22.06.2021	Gerhard Kreysa	Strategies, visions and illusions to save the climate
06.07.2021	Gisela Boeck	"You will have received my little atomic hoax" – Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) – His life and his work
02.09.2021	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?
28.09.2021	Klaus-Dieter Franz	Music for the eye – color, shine 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

Opus poeticus: Senior chemists share their knowledge

What would the world be without chemistry
it would be dreary and empty.
There would be no seniors that
could explain once more
what atoms and molecules are
and how they react
and what is fast in nature
so anything can happen.
You know it in chemistry
not always stinks and cracks,
because mostly happens somehow
assembly and dismantling quietly and gently.

The number of SEC experts is large,
the undaunted and without complaint
in universities, schools, kindergartens
bring their knowledge to market there,
thus explain what the world
holds together at heart.

Also comes in the company of colleagues

especially in corona times
the offer is not inconvenient
to disseminate their knowledge ad hoc.
From genetic engineering to the climate crisis
of trace gases, paint selection
our wide expertise is enough,
completely virtual and digital.
With Crispr / Cas biochemistry
comes up, and then at the end
the elixir of energy
Cyclodextrins, color pigments.

Once you were a chemist
mostly male, but from now on
one sees more or less:
The eternal feminine draws us on high.
Is known and not entirely unimportant:
Who only knows something about chemistry,
does not understand this subject quite correctly either
and easily get on the wrong track.

Roland Bitsch

Next SEC online lecture: May 13, 2025, 3 p.m.

Werner Hoffmann: Where does medical progress come from

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