Congrats Artemis for awesome results! Just out her paper on Bis-silylenes at work in low-valent aluminum chemistry in Angewandte Chemie. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

ICHAC-14 in Tianjin: Barbecue with some of my former graduate students/postdocs (now professors in chinese universities and Munich ---Shigeyoshi Inoue) and two new postdocs. Thanks for a great retreat and I am very proud of your powerful work and success.

So much great science and gathering with rising stars in a few days. Thanks Chunming!!

Happy to share that German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved our grant proposal on "Nitrogen fixation, (electro)reduction and functionalization based on silicon systems" Looking forward receiving applications of highly motivated, creative & talented postdocs & PhD students

Check this out: 'Electrochemical Thursday because its Thursday today'🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.202…

Proud of Niklas Hausmann in my group. He just mastered his exciting PhD defense today with distinction/ 'Summa Cum Laude'. 🥳🤩🎅Congrats Niklas. Thanks also to Greta Patzke (U Zürich) who acted as external reviewer!

Three open PhD positions for excellent candidates available in my group starting January 2023: two positions for organometallic catalysis, one for electrocatalysis/robotics. Check and apply: stellenticket.de/154931/TUB/…; stellenticket.de/155495/TUB/…

Many thanks to Ching-Wen Chiu, her students and stuff members of National Taiwan University for the excellent scientific program and awesome organization of the 8th Asian Silicon Symposium. The excursion in warm rain to see amazing landscapes was the cherry on the cake.

Very sad news: Professor Robert (Bob) West at UW Madision passed away on October 12th, 2022 at the age of 94. He ascended summits of chemistry (isolable Si=Si compounds), humanity (e.g., woman's rights) and mountains (50 first accents). We miss you, Bob!!

Chalcogens in their elemental form are active electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction under alkaline and acidic conditions and relate activity trends to the electronegativity, H-bond strength, and stability at different pH. 🧐💧doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.202…

After our lab cleaning we enjoyed our international food festival...All self made delicious stuff (> in total 15 step syntheses) from the "other" kitchen. Cheers and thanks to all!