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Time to celebrate🎉: The @dfg.de has announced that Armido Studer receives the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize" for his pioneering research in Organic #RadicalChemistry. We congratulate him for this great acknowledgement of his outstanding research activities at @uni-muenster.de!
Merry Christmas!!!
We wish you all a Merry Christmas, restful holidays, and all the best for the year 2026!
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It was a colorful hour full of explosions, 💥 shining colors 🌈 and eye-opening facts about light. Many thanks to Uwe Karst, Michael Holtkamp, and the whole lecture-team for the spectacular #Christmaslecture “Let there be light!”.
Video: Linus Peikenkamp @uni-muenster.de. Music by pixabay radio.
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Time to celebrate🎉: The @dfg.de has announced that Armido Studer receives the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize" for his pioneering research in Organic #RadicalChemistry. We congratulate him for this great acknowledgement of his outstanding research activities at @uni-muenster.de!
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
At the same event, Julia Soika received the Rectory Prize for her excellent doctoral dissertation at our faculty. One of the cutting-edge topics in her thesis was the application of a well-known versatile thermal Aluminum-Salen catalyst in #photocatalysis. Congratulations!
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
At the traditional annual "summa cum laude"-reception, the Rectorate of the @uni-muenster.de has honored 18 PhD-graduates from our faculty for their outstanding theses in #Chemistry, #FoodChemistry and #Pharmacy, graded with the best possible result. Congratulations for your great achievement!
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Great news for our young researchers: The international research training group (IRTG) "Functional pi-Systems: Activation, Interaction and Application (pi-Sys)" @uni-muenster.de is funded by the DFG for additional 4.5 years. Many thanks to the whole IRTG-team for their long-standing dedication!
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Professional Analyses by high school students: This week, more than 100 chemistry enthusiasts from 6 regional schools are visiting the Karst-Labs. At the annual event "LK Lab Instrumental Analysis" they take up the lab coat and use our state-of-the-art instruments to solve everyday analytical tasks.
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Join us for our annual christmas lecture on December 16th at 5 pm in the lecture hall C1. This year, Uwe Karst and Michael Holtkamp explore the fascination of light under the topic "Let there be light!". How do we perceive it? How can we make colorful light? And how does chemistry come into play?
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Open doors for future chemists, food chemists, and pharmacists: More than 900 guests explored our labs and lecture halls at the yearly University day @uni-muenster.de .
Photos: Valerie Hollwedel, Hauke Engler
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Congratulations to Frank Glorius (@gloriusfrank.bsky.social) and Wolfgang Zeier who made it onto the Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" list.
@uni-muenster.de @gloriusgroup.bsky.social roup.bsky.social
Photos by Lukas Walbaum (left) and Peter Dziemba (right).
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Congratulations to Dmitrii Kalinin, Verena Spiegler, and Diddo Diddens who officially completed their habilitation procedures @uni-muenster.de this month. Thank you for your inspiring inaugural lectures!
(Photos: Uni MS - Hauke Engler, Alina Siutkina)
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Great project on the combined use of light- and redox-switching in hydrogels is now published in Nat. Commun. We can generate all types of stable redox patterns and actuation under ambient conditions using light for spatio-temporal control!
Check out the most colourful work of my PhD, available now from Nature Communications!
(It's open access, you have no excuse not to read)
Thank you to my collaborators, among others @robertheinchem.bsky.social @feringalab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
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October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Reminder: Die Uni Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27.10. zum Tag der Lehre ein! Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ geht es um aktuelle und innovative Lehrkonzepte. Wer nicht vor Ort dabei sein kann, kann die Veranstaltung im Live-Stream verfolgen.
Universität lädt zu einem Tag der Lehre ein
Die Universität Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27. Oktober zu einem Tag der Lehre 2025 ein. Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ können sich alle Inte...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Time to celebrate: on friday, our latest 30 PhD graduates in #chemistry and #pharmacy were awarded the highest academic degree during a festivity in the "Schloss" @uni-muenster.de.
We congratulate everyone who recently achieved this important stepstone in their career!
Photo: Uni MS - Simone Krause
October 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Wo sonst Fußball-Zweitligist Preußen Münster @preussen06.bsky.social kickt, hieß die Universität heute (8. Oktober) ihre Erstsemester willkommen. Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels und Bürgermeisterin Angela Stähler begrüßten mehr als 4.000 „Erstis“.
Universität Münster begrüßt neue Studierende im Preußenstadion
Wo sonst Fußball-Zweitligist Preußen Münster kickt, hieß die Universität heute (8. Oktober) ihre Erstsemester willkommen. Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels und Bürgermeisterin Angela Stähler begrüßten...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Institute for Chemical Education @uni-muenster.de welcomed 32 children aged 6 or above and their parents with playful chemical experiments. According to this year’s motto “playing time” well known board games were explored from a new perspective.
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Here, we present MDPath, a novel tool to study allosteric communication pathways within protein structures:
Unraveling Allosteric Communication Paths of Drug Targets through Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
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MDPath: Unraveling Allosteric Communication Paths of Drug Targets through Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Understanding allosteric communication in proteins remains a critical challenge for structure-based, rational drug design. We present MDPath, a Python toolkit for analyzing allosteric communication paths in molecular dynamics simulations using NMI-based analysis. We demonstrate MDPath’s ability to identify both established and novel GPCR allosteric mechanisms using the β2-adrenoceptor, adenosine A2A receptor, and μ-opioid receptor as model systems. The toolkit reveals ligand-specific allosteric effects in β2-adrenoceptor and MOR, illustrating how protein–ligand interactions drive conformational changes. Analysis of ABL1 kinase in complex with allosteric and orthosteric inhibitors demonstrates the broader applicability of the approach. Ultimately, MDPath provides an open-source framework for mapping allosteric communication within proteins, advancing structure-based drug design (https://github.com/wolberlab/mdpath).
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October 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Die Zukunft der Batterieproduktion nimmt weiter Fahrt auf. Am 1. Oktober wurde in Münster der Grundstein für den 2. Bauabschnitt der Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle (FFB Fab) @fraunhofer.bsky.social gelegt. Die Uni Münster ist mit dem Batterieforschungszentrum MEET beteiligt. #Batterien
Zukunftsstandort Nordrhein-Westfalen: Grundsteinlegung für Batterieproduktion der nächsten Generation in Münster
Die Zukunft der Batterieproduktion nimmt weiter Fahrt auf –  mitten in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Wirtschafts- und Klimaschutzministerin Mona Neubaur, Wissenschaftsministerin Ina Brandes und Dr. Rolf-Dieter...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We welcome all new students at our faculty. Have a good start!!!
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Congratulations to Thomas Schmidt @pharmacampus-ms.bsky.social on receiving the Innovation Award of the "Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie e. V." for his outstanding research @uni-muenster.de on using topical arnica tincture to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis. Publication: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
October 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Welcoming the next chemical talents: on our interactive information day, more than 80 high school students explored our faculty. At our practical lab stations, they discussed chemistry with our researchers and instructors and got informed about the studying opportunities.
October 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Congratulations: the Institute of Business Administration at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy @uni-muenster.de has celebrated its 25th anniversary. We thank the institute for its numerous networking activities and its longstanding contribution to the research and the visibility of the faculty.
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The faculty congratulates junior group leader Line Muradi from @uni-muenster.de for receiving the @L'Oréal / @unesco.org "For Women in Science"-Award for her outstanding research in using water as an environmentally benign solvent for photochemistry.
Photo: Getty Images for L’Oréal.
September 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Der Hochschultag Münster mit Vorträgen und Schnuppervorlesungen für Studieninteressierte findet am 13. November statt. Anmeldungen sind ab sofort möglich! www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph...
Jetzt anmelden: Hochschultag Münster am 13. November
Vorträge und Schnuppervorlesungen, Infostände und Beratungsangebote: Am 13. November findet der nächste Hochschultag in Münster statt. Anmeldungen sind ab sofort möglich.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
An international team of scientists including Jun.-Prof. Marcel Rey from @uni-muenster.de has developed laser driven microgears. For the first time, movable gears smaller than a hair's diameter were presented, breaking the former threshold of 0.1 mm.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM