06 May 2026; 14:00 hrs (Seminar Series)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Timo Jacob (Ulm University)
• Topic: "Electrochemistry Extreme: Processes at Elevated Potentials"
• Venue: Hybrid; Campus Essen (Seminar room: S07 S02 D48), Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kai Exner (UDE)

19 June 2026; 12:00 hrs (Seminar Series)

• Speaker: Dr. Saskia Heumann (MPI CEC)
• Topic: "Catalyst development in the AmmoRef (and Prometheus) project(s)"
• Venue: Hybrid; RUB (Seminar room: ZEMOS 0.17), Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

04 December 2025; 14:15 hrs (Seminar Series)

• Speaker: Ass. Prof. Rebecca Pittkowski (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Topic: "Through X-ray eyes: Developing multimodal characterization to study electrocatalysts in operation"
• Venue: Hybrid; RUB ZEMOS (Seminar room 0.17), Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

13 November 2025; 14:00 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium) 

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Johann Rohwer (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
• Topic: "Kinetic modelling and parametrisation of cascade reactions with NMRPy and PySCeS"
• Venue: Online, Webex: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 1333

03 November 2025; 10:00 hrs (Seminar Series) - CANCELLED -

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Israel E. Wachs (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA)
• Topic: "Overview of catalysis by oxides"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, Room: NBCF 04/679; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Martin Muhler (RUB)

31 October 2025; 14:15 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium) - CANCELLED -

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Israel E. Wachs (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA)
• Topic: "Dynamics of perovskite catalysts during C02 reduction and H2O oxidation"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, ZEMOS 0.17; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: TRR 247

23 October 2025; 14:15 hrs (Seminar Series)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Judith Golda (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Topic: "Fundamentals of plasma surface interaction for plasma catalytic applications"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, ZEMOS 0.17; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

24 July 2025; 17:15 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jana Roithova (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Topic: "Mass Spectrometry in Catalysis Research"
• Venue: Online; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 325

18 July 2025; 10:00 hrs 

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth R. Young (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA)
• Topic: "Controlling Excited-State Dynamics with Protons: Pining down the Photophysics of Azo Dyes towards More Efficient Water Remediation Solutions"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, ZEMOS 0.17; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

19 June 2025; 14:15 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Charles Machan (University of California, USA)
• Topic: "Metal-free molecules as electrocatalysts and co-electrocatalysts"
• Venue: Hybrid, University of Göttingen; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 1633

12 June 2025; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Dr. Sudarsanam Putla (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
• Topic: "Nanostructured metal-based catalysts for sustainable conversion of plastic waste and biomass-derived furfural"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, NBCF 04/679; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Martin Muhler (RUB)

27 February 2025; 15:30 hrs

• Speaker: Dr. Nils Kurig (Scripps Research, Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, California/USA)
• Topic: "There and Back Again: Sustainable Electrochemistry Meets Organic Synthesis"
• Venue: Online; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

06 February 2025; 14:00 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Amir H. Hoveyda (Boston College, USA / University of Strasbourg, France)
• Topic: "Catalytic Click Processes that Forge Functional Linkages"
• Venue: Hybrid, at University Stuttgart and via Webex: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 1333

23 January 2025; 14:00 hrs

• Speaker: Dr. Markus Klose (Director Superbattery and Intellectual Property of Skeleton Technologies, Leipzig)
• Topic: "High Currents and Short Timeframes: Development of High-Power Energy Storage Devices from an Industry Perspective"
• Venue: Hybrid, Ruhr University Bochum, ZEMOS: Seminar room 0.17; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Julia Linnemann (RUB)

17 January 2025; 14:00 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hilde J. Venvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
• Topic: "Catalyst Surface Dynamics in Terms of Reconstruction, Segregation and Dissolution"
• Venue: Hybrid, at KIT and via Zoom
• Host: CRC 1441

28 November 2024; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rodney Smith (Uni. Waterloo, Canada)
• Topic: "Using Gradients in Structural Disorder to Refine Our Understanding of Electrocatalysts"
• Venue: Hybrid, Campus Duisburg, NETZ 2.42; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Rossitza Pentcheva (UDE)

14 November 2024; 10:00 hrs

• Speaker: Dr. Johannes Bartl (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
• Topic: "Rational Design of Oxygen Vacancy-containing, Entropy-stabilized Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts for Selective CO₂ Conversion"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, ZGH: Seminar room (main entrance); Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Alfred Ludwig (RUB)

26 September 2024; 13:15 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Pumera (CEITEC, Brno University, Czech)
• Topic: "3D printing meets 2D Materials, Impurities and Single Atom Catalysts"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, Room: ZEMOS 0.17; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

12 September 2024; 12:00 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sang Hoon Joo (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
• Topic: "Atomically Dispersed Catalysts Steering Selective Electrocatalysis of Energy Conversion and Commodity Chemical Production"
• Venue: Hybrid; Campus Essen (room: S05 V01 E69); Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kai Exner (UDE)

11 July 2024; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Liebscher (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Topic: "Quantitative imaging of nanocatalysts and complex oxides by 4D-STEM"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, Room: ZEMOS 0.17; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik (RUB)

09 July 2024; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Pankaj Bharali (Tezpur University, India)
• Topic: "Fundamental Role of Interfaces in Electrocatalytic Enhancement"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, Room: NBCF 04/679; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Martin Muhler (RUB)

27 June 2024; 17:15 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Olalla Vázquez (Philipps University Marburg)
• Topic: "Bright Molecules for Biology"
• Venue: online; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 325

13 February 2024; 16:00 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Plamen Atanassov (University of California, Irvine, USA)
• Topic: "Electrocatalysis as a Major Enabling Technology for Decarbonization"
• Venue: Hybrid; ZBT Campus Duisburg; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Harry Hoster (ZBT)

12 February 2024; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Plamen Atanassov (University of California, Irvine, USA)
• Topic: "Atomically Dispersed Transition Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Electrocatalysts"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum (room: NC 02/99); Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Wolfgang Schuhmann

01 February 2024; 10:00 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
• Topic: "Probing Birth, Life and Death of Catalysts with Operando Spectroscopy and Microscopy"
• Venue: Hybrid; University Stuttgart, Lecture Hall 47.02; WebEx: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 1333

30 January 2024; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Dr. Ali Hassanali (Abdus Salam Int. Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)
• Topic: "Wild Fluctuations in Aqueous Systems: Implications on the Structure, Dynamics and Chemistry"
• Venue: Hybrid; Campus Essen (room: T03 R02 D39); Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: E. Spohr & S. Kenmoe

11 January 2024; 17:15 hrs (CataLysis Joint Colloquium)

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dorota Gryko (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• Topic: "Photochemical transformations enabled by porphyrinoids"
• Venue: online; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: CRC 325

07 December 2023; 14:15 hrs

• Speaker: Prof Dr.-Ing. Thomas Turek (Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering, TU Clausthal)
• Topic: "Alkaline water electrolysis: history, current status, and research needs"
• Venue: online; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kai S. Exner

26 October 2023; 11:00 hrs

• Speaker: Dr. Constanze Neumann (Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
• Topic: "Metalloradicals in Confinement"
• Venue: Hybrid; Ruhr University Bochum, Room: ZEMOS 0.19; Zoom: contact TRR 247
• Host: Kristina Tschulik