Physical Chemistry Seminars (CH-643)

The Physical Chemistry Seminars Series is organized by Prof. Christoph Bostedt, Prof. Sascha Feldmann, Prof. Nikita Kavokine and Prof. Jiri Vanicek. It takes place on Thursday at 17:00 in CH G1 495 unless otherwise specified. An apero will be served after the seminar.

 

Upcoming Seminars

Heilbronner Hückel Award Lecture: Prof. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Fritz-Haber Institute Berlin

 05.10.2026   17:0018:00

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya
Location:  BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Past Seminars

From DNA Repair to a Quantum Magnetic Compass: Watching Proteins Process Energy and Information

 18.06.2026   17:0018:30

Speaker: T.J. Lane, CFEL, Hamburg (Germany)
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Probing Ultrafast Electron Motion with Attosecond X-ray Free Electron Lasers

 23.04.2026   17:1518:30

Speaker: James Cryan, Stanford Univ. / SLAC
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Prof. Petra Tegeder

Electronic properties of functional molecules

 09.04.2026   17:0018:30

Speaker: Prof. Petra Tegeder
Location:  CH G1 495
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Laboratory Astrochemistry of Solid Surfaces – The Key to the Chemistry of Space!

 30.03.2026   14:0015:00

Speaker: Prof. Martin McCoustra, Heriot-Watt University
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Quantum State-Resolved Studies of Methane/Surface Scattering by Vibrational Spectroscopy

 26.03.2026   17:0018:30

Speaker: Rainer Beck
Location:  CE 1 5 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Seeing the Unseen: Detection of Reactive Intermediates with VUV Sychrotron Radiation

 12.03.2026   17:0018:00

Speaker: Patrick Hemberger, Paul Scherrer Institute
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Chiral phononics: Controlling materials with a twist

 05.03.2026   17:1518:15

Speaker: Prof. Dominik Juraschek, TU Eindhoven  
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Thomas E. Markland

Leveraging theory and simulation to decode and design multidimensional electronic spectroscopies in the condensed phase

 05.02.2026   17:0018:00

Speaker: Thomas E. Markland, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Location:  CH G1 495
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

PChem Seminar: Brain-inspired nanofluidics

 29.01.2026   15:0016:00

Speaker: Dr. Théo Emmerich
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Ultrafast chiroptical spectroscopy and microscopy

 08.01.2026   17:0018:00

Speaker: Prof. Giulio Nicola Felice Cerullo
Location:  CH G1 495 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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