03.10.25, 10:15 HS 10.01

Introduction to the Doctoral School of Chemistry

Wolfgang Kroutil

08.10.25, 17:15 TU, HS H (Stremayrgasse 9)

Lieben Lecture: Cool Organic Chemistry

Peter Schreiner

(Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany)

10.10.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“Transfer hydrogenation reactions on supported noble metals”

Eszter Baráth

(LIKAT, Rostock, Germany)

24.10.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

"Biocatalysis in Microflow Systems"

Polona Žnidaršič Plazl

(University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Slovenia)

31.10.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“From Aryltin hydrides to Oligotin Rings, Cages and Elementoid Clusters: σ-Delocalization and Model Compounds for Surface Reactions”

Roland C. Fischer

(Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, TU Graz, Austria)

07.11.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“From quantum mechanics to quantum materials: Molecular design for optical materials”

Christof Holzer

(Institut für Quanten Materialien und Technologien, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany)

14.11.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“Late-stage functionalization of aromatic compounds under mechanochemical conditions”

Viktor Iaroshenko

(Matej Bel University, Slovakia)

21.11.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“What even is ICP-TOF-MS and why should you care”

Lukas Schlatt

(Ametek/Nu Instruments)

28.11.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“Application of ICP-MS and complementary detection techniques in environmental research to study the chemical footprint of renewable energy production and digitalization”

Daniel Pröfrock

(Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Inorganic Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Coastal Environmental Chemistry, Germany)

05.12.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

“The coming of age of de novo enzyme design”

Gustav Oberdorfer

(TU Graz, Austria)

12.12.25, 10:15 HS 10.11

Presentations by PhD students

“Characterizing enzymes for cascades with the Enzyme-Condition-Interaction-Matrix”

Isabella Kroschel (Kroutil)

“Electrolysis-Assisted Reduction of Dimethylformamide for Unactivated Alkene Functionalization”

Yifan Xi (Kappe)

“Prediction of Relative Stabilities and Transition Barriers for Molecular Crystal Polymorphs”

Natalia Goncharova (Boese)

09.01.26, 10:15 HS 10.11

Presentations by PhD students

"Aqueous Properties of Mo and W Complexes"

Niklas Stix (Moesch-Zanetti)

"Exhaust gas analysis of internal combustion engines - still a relevant topic?"

Marco Bertuzzi (Zangger)

“Biocatalytic amide formation”

Magdalena Abramiuk (Kroutil) 

16.01.26, 10:15 HS 10.11

Presentations by PhD students

“Electrochemical Oxidation to Pyrimidinones in Water–Biorenewable Solvent Systems”

Alberto Bonino (Kappe)

“Biocatalytic Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids”

Jonas Spang (Kroutil)

“Catalytic Properties and Reaction Mechanism of high valent Rhenium Complex”

Tobias Doliner (Schachner)

23.01.26, 10:15 HS 10.11

Presentations by PhD students

“Synthesis of Challenging Lactones Using Thioesterases”

Emmanouil Chatzakis (Winkler)

“Tungsten and Molybdenum Complexes Inspired by Metalloenzymes”

Julia Stöllinger (Moesch-Zanetti)

“Catalytic pathways to high-value aromatic chemicals from lignin via stabilization strategies”

Rathnakowsiha Ravichandran (Barta Weissert)

30.01.26, 10:15 HS 10.11

“Directional motion of individual functional molecules”

Grant  Simpson

(Institut für Chemie, Uni Graz)