We are proud to celebrate the successful PhD defenses of the last months:

Panel A:

Maria Waldl: Modelling Kinetics of RNA-RNA Interaction Formation

David Hernández Castillo: Characterization and mechanistic studies of molecular light-driven catalytic building blocks

Moritz Zelenka: The molecular structure at solid-liquid interfaces: From surface dissolution to heterogeneous catalysis

Daniel Garstenauer: Developing the Vapour-Solid Synthesis of Intermetallic Nanoparticles and Investigation regarding their Catalytic Performance

Panel B:

Yifan Bao: Biological Fate of Dietary Oxidized Lipids

Andreas Gradwohl: Hydrophobic task-specific ionic liquids: synthesis, metal extraction and ecotoxicological aspects

Panel C:

Soheil Mahmoudi: 3D ED - a peek into the future of crystallography

Constantin Eisen: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Surface Ligands for Metal Nanoparticles: Linking Structure with Function

Sergio Armentia Matheu: I. Entropy-Oriented Drug Design (EnODD) aimed at inhibiting the interaction between TEAD and YAP-TAZ. II. Ni-Catalyzed Stereoconvergent Reductive Dimerization of Bromocyclobutenes

Giorgia Toscano: Synthetic Isotope Labeling Strategies Applied to Protein NMR in Drug Discovery

Dörte Brandis: Exploring Dynamic Peptide Self-Assemblies with Solution-State NMR for Biomimetic Materials

Verena Filz: Developing chemical probes and inhibitors for SOS-response activated proteases and capsid maturation enzymes via proteomic metabolite profiling

Cristian De Luca: Functional π-Extended Oxygen-doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Design, Synthesis, and Optoelectronic Properties

Their work marks an important contribution to our university.

Congratulations once again!