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.

Blending Old Concepts with Data-driven Approaches to Discover and Classify Homogeneous Catalysts

• TH Department Online Seminar
• Date: May 6, 2021
• Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Professor Clémence Corminboeuf
• Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Location: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/62130928408
• Room: Meeting ID: 621 3092 8408 | Passcode: 986471
• Host: TH Department

Sabatier’s principle,^[1] developed in the first decades of the 20^th century, states that an ideal catalyst should bind a substrate neither too strongly nor too weakly. Today, this simple idea provides the fundamental underpinning for “volcano plots”,^[2,3] which are abundantly used in heterogeneous and electrocatalysis.^[4] [more]