News 2025

12-05-2025

Business Chemistry meets AFRY Management Consulting

What strategic opportunities arise from the energy transition for companies? Providing an answer to this and similar questions is the daily business of Christoph Gerwin, Manager at AFRY Management Consulting. Providing a range of examples, Christoph outlined how to develop a strategy for offshore wind power providers or how to increase sustainability for a well-planed coal phase-out. We thank Christoph for his time and looking forward to future insight from practitioners.

06-05-2025

Research Assistant (E 13 TV-L)

The Business Chemistry Group at the University of Münster is seeking to fill a research assistant position (E 13 TV-L) with 65% of the regular weekly working hours as soon as possible. The position is initially limited to 3 years, but can be extended in the context of a doctorate. The full-time teaching commitment is 4 SWS.

19-02-2025

Study on the battery supply chain shows China's global dominance

Producing batteries for electric cars requires a complex supply chain. Researchers from Fraunhofer FFB and the University of Münster analyzed the ownership structures and geopolitical dependencies along this supply chain. The result: China controls almost the entire value chain of lithium-ion batteries.