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From June 29 to July 1, 2026 the International Conference on “Challenges on the Renewable Energy Storage”, jointly organized by the Departments of Interface Science and Inorganic Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society and the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, took place at Liblice Castle near Prague. more

For his new research project, “Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity in Electrocatalysis,” Dr. Constantin Eisen, a postdoctoral researcher in the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute, has been awarded a Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). more

2nd International Conference, Berlin, November 16-18, 2026 more

With the aim of advancing integrated CO₂ capture and electrochemical conversion, researchers from the Interface Science Department of the Fritz Haber Institute investigated how the concentration of KHCO₃, a typical CO₂ capture medium, controls the electrochemical conversion of CO₂ on copper in a membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA) electrolyzer.
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Special Symposium for the 40th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award to
Prof. Ernst Ruska for the Invention of the Transmission Electron Microscope on
Nov. 23, 2026 at Harnack Haus Berlin.
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Since 2012, the Berlin Cluster of Excellence UniSysCat has awarded the Clara Immerwahr Award each year to outstanding early-career female scientists in the field of catalysis research. Following the conclusion of the Cluster of Excellence, the Fritz Haber Institute has taken over the prestigious award and will present it as part of the Gerhard Ertl Lecture on 10 December 2026. more

Dr. Patrick Giesbrecht has been granted a fellowship through the highly competitive Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada to carry out research within the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute. more