Innovative and interdisciplinary

The research carried out at the Department of Chemistry is unique in virtue of its diversity, interdisciplinarity, and collegiality. Our areas of emphasis are polymers, biomolecules, structured colloidal materials, functional catalysis design, and novel natural substance synthesis.

We have also earned an international reputation for developing the method of spectroscopic structure analysis. Our interdisciplinary orientation is manifested in large cooperative projects such as SFB 1585 (Structured functional materials for multiple transport in nanoscale confinements) and the way expertise is bundled in Key Labs and our various research centres.

You can find out more about our research activities on the homepages of the focus areas and our various working groups.

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Prof. Dr. Seema Agarwal, Macromolecular Chemistry II
Homepage: www.mcii.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html
Prof. Dr. Matteo Bianchini, Inorganic Active Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Homepage: www.bianchini.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Josef Breu, Inorganic Colloids for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Homepage: www.ice2.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Matthias Breuning, Organic Chemistry I/2
Homepage: www.breuning.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Shoubhik Das, Organic Chemistry I
Homepage: www.shoubhikdas.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Andreas Greiner, Macromolecular Chemistry II
Homepage: www.mcii.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html
Prof. Dr. André Gröschel, Polymer Materials for Electrochemical Storage
Homepage: www.groeschel.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Frank Hahn, Organic Chemistry (Food Chemistry)
Homepage: www.oc-hahn.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Janosch Hennig, Biochemistry IV
Biophysical Chemistry
Homepage: www.biopolymere.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Birte Höcker, Biochemistry III
Protein Design
Homepage: www.proteindesign.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Rhett Kempe, Inorganic Chemistry II
Homepage: www.ac2.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Claus D. Kuhn, RNA Biochemistry
Homepage: www.kuhnlab.uni-bayreuth.de
Junior Prof. Dr. Meike Nicole Leiske, Sustainable Functional Polymer Systems
Homepage: www.leiskelab.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Johannes Margraf, Artificial Intelligence in Physico-Chemical Material Analysis
Homepage: www.margraf.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Roland Marschall, Physical Chemistry III
Homepage: www.marschall.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Andreas Möglich, Biochemistry II
Photobiochemistry
Homepage: www.moeglich.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Georg Papastavrou, Physical Chemistry II
Homepage: www.pcii.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Paul, Didactics of Biology and Chemistry
Homepage: www.bc-didaktik.uni-bayreuth.de
Junior Prof. Dr. Alex Plajer, Polymers for Electro-Optical and Sensor Applications
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Prof. Dr. Markus Retsch, Physical Chemistry I
Homepage: www.retsch.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Anna Schenk, Physical Chemistry IV
Homepage: www.colloidal-systems.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Schmidt, Macromolecular Chemistry I
Homepage: www.chemie.uni-bayreuth.de/mci/
Prof. Dr. Stephan Schwarzinger, NMR Centre
Homepage: https://www.nbnc.uni-bayreuth.de/de/arbeitsgruppen/arbeitsgruppe-csi-food/index.html
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Senker, Inorganic Chemistry III
Homepage: www.senker.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Clemens Steegborn, Biochemistry I
Protein biochemistry of signaling
Homepage: www.biochemie.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Mukundan Thelakkat, Macromolecular Chemistry I
Homepage: www.chemie.uni-bayreuth.de/mci
Prof. Dr. Matthias Ullmann, Biochemistry V
Theoretical and Computational Biochemistry
Homepage: www.bisb.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Carlo Unverzagt, Bioorganic Chemistry
Homepage: www.boc.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Nella Marie Vargas-Barbosa, Electrochemistry
Homepage:
N.N., Inorganic Chemistry IV
Homepage: www.ac2-weber.uni-bayreuth.de
Prof. Dr. Birgitta Wöhrl, Biochemistry IV
Biophysical Chemistry
Homepage: www.biopolymere.uni-bayreuth.de

Emeriti

Prof. Dr. Helmut Alt
Prof. Dr. Hans Gerlach (em.)
Prof. Dr. Max Herberhold (em.)
Prof. Dr. Heinz Hoffmann (em.)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Krauss
Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenoir
Prof. Dr. Peter Morys
Prof. Dr. Axel Müller
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Platz
Prof. Dr. Paul Rösch
Prof. Dr. Franz X. Schmid
Prof. Dr. Rainer Schobert
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Seifert
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Spiteller (em.)
Prof. Dr. Matthias Sprinzl
Prof. Dr. Peter Strohriegl
Prof. Dr. Karin Weiss
Prof. Dr. Bernd Wrackmeyer

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SFB 840 "From particulate nanosystems to mesotechnology"
SFB 1357 "Microplastics" (Microplastics - Understanding the mechanisms and processes of biological effects, transport and formation: From model to complex systems as a basis for new solutions)
SFB 1585 "MultiTrans" (Structured functional materials for multiple transport in nanoscale confinements)

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