Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Chemical dynamics at extended scales

Chemical dynamics at extended scales

• Start: Jan 10, 2023 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• End: Jan 11, 2023 06:00 PM
• Location: Harnack House
• Host: Martin Wolf

The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, in short FHI, is an international research place where scientists from all over the world investigate the basic principles underlying the chemical conversion of matter and energy at surfaces and interfaces. Our institute was celebrating the 110th anniversary of its inauguration this October and we are also approaching a generation change with the upcoming retirements of three directors (Schlögl, Wolf, and Meijer) in the coming years. This is an excellent moment to further develop the institute’s strategy and research concept, and to identify the upcoming fields for the next decades in physical chemistry and chemical physics in Berlin-Dahlem. [more]