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The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1459 will host the 5th Münster Symposium on intelligent matter on June 24th, 2026.

We would like to invite you to join exciting plenary lectures, to contribute with your results within an extensive poster session, or to apply for the MüSIM 2026 Young Researcher Award for a recent outstanding scientific paper published within the field.

Please find here more information on the event!   

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Visit the Münster Symposium on Intelligent Matter as one highlight within the scientific calendar!

Hector Research Career Development Award for Robert Hein

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The Hector Fellow Academy has recognized Junior Professor Robert Hein of the Organisch- Chemisches Institut with the Research Career Development Award.
The prize confers a five‑year membership in the Academy, a research grant, and funding for a doctoral position to support the long‑term advancement of his outstanding scientific work in addition to access to the valuable network of the Hector Fellow Academy’s scientific community.

Further information can be found on the Hector Fellow Academy website and on the news portal of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy [in German only].

Insights into the energy landscape of a ‘memristive’ material

The electrical resistance of a nanoscale volume of germanium telluride fluctuates between different states. These states correspond to valleys in a high-dimensional energy landscape. The transition rates between the states reveal information about the nature of the energy barriers that separate them (symbolic illustration).
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Findings from doctoral student Sebastian Walfort and Prof Martin Salinga’s team at the Institute of Materials Physics reveal the connection between electronic noise and thermodynamic properties.

Further information on this work, including the press release can be found here.

Click here for the original publication.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Awardee 2026

DFG honours Prof. Dr. Armido Studer for outstanding research
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Prof. Dr. Armido Studer is awarded with the 2026 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his outstanding contributions to organic radical chemistry—especially for developing sustainable synthetic methods using organic radicals.

With Germany´s most prestigious research‑funding award, worth €2.5 million, the DFG recognises and honours excellent scientists for their extraordinary scientific achievements.

More information about this year’s prize can be found here (in German)!

Website of the Studer group.