Collaborative Research Center 1333
Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Confined Geometries
A warm welcome to Lifang Zhu, who has recently joined CRC 1333 as a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Blazej Grabowski. Lifang is aDFG project leader whose research focuses on developing methodologies to accelerate melting property calculations within the density-functional-theory (DFT) framework. Such calculations are typically highly resource-intensive, making high-throughput screening of … Read more
A warm welcome to Janis Gschwind, who has recently joined CRC 1333 as a doctoral researcher in the research group of René Peters. Janis completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. His Bachelor’s and Master’s theses were carried out in René Peters’ group, focusing on asymmetric cooperative catalysis. At … Read more
A warm welcome to Misha Kumari, who has recently joined CRC 1333 as a doctoral researcher in the research group of Deven Estes. Misha received her Bachelor’s degree from Arunodaya University and her Master’s degree in Chemistry from IIT Gandhinagar, both in India. Her Master’s project focused on “Promotion of COâ‚‚ reduction by stabilizing intermediates … Read more
A warm welcome to Akash Deshpande who has recently joined the CRC 1333 as a doctoral researcher within the research group of Kenichi Endo. Akash has completed his Master’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Ulm, where his research focused on light-driven transmembrane electron transfer using ruthenium complexes and oligo-aromatic molecules. Before that, he … Read more
A warm welcome to Patrick Becker! Patrick has recently joined the CRC 1333 administration team and is working as the new head of the CRC 1333’s graduate school as well as supporting the management of events and the writing of the proposal for the third funding period. Patrick studied chemistry in Mainz, Rehovot (Israel), and … Read more
A warm welcome to Arthur Siegelin! Arthur has recently joined the CRC 1333 as our new Data Steward. He is currently participating in the Franco-German double master’s program between Strasbourg and Stuttgart at the Faculty of Chemistry and will be finishing his studies at the University of Strasbourg. We look forward to working with you, … Read more
The CRC 1333 is happy to welcome Professor Dr. Johann Rohwer from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He will stay in Stuttgart as a Humboldt Fellow and as a Visiting Professor of Excellence Cluster EXC 2075 and the Collaborative Research Center 1333. Prof. Jürgen Pleiss from project INF of the CRC 1333 hosts him at the Institute … Read more
A warm welcome to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kenichi Endo who has been appointed as “Junior professor for Catalysis in Confined Geometries” on May 08, 2025. Before his professorship he has been part of the CRC 1333 as a postdoc in project A03 and we are happy to see him emerge to an independent researcher now. The … Read more
A warm welcome to Dr. Maya Kumari who joined the CRC 1333 a few months ago as a postdoctoral researcher in project C02. Maya has received her doctoral degree in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher fellow in the Department of Chemistry there as well … Read more
A warm welcome to Frederic Bender! Frederic has joined the CRC 1333 as a research data engineer for the INF project. Together with Felix Neubauer and Kenichi Endo, he is developing an automated PXRD analysis and synthesis planning in project A08. Frederic holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical- and Bio-Engineering and a master’s degree in … Read more