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The international Master's Program Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) celebrates its anniversary! 20 years ago, it was established by the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB). On February 4, 2026, we will celebrate 20 years of MAP with a commemorative lecture followed by an engaging poster session presented by 3rd semester students. This event is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the MAP community, exchange ideas, and celebrate two decades of academic excellence.

Prof. Matthias Thommes, Chair of the Institute of Separation Science and Technology, has been awarded the prestigious Clarence (Larry) G. Gerhold Award by the Separation Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting. This highly esteemed award recognizes outstanding progress in the area of separation technology.

Prof. Kathrin Castiglione, Dr. Stefanie Brückner and Matthias Tobler, Institute of Bioprocess Engineering, received the FAU Sustainability Award in the "Research" category for their project "GreenThread: maßgeschneiderte Enzyme und Mikroben für biobasiertes Textilrecycling." The project aims to...

Th 2025 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created – metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. MOFs can be used for gas separation and hydrogen storage – only two applications among many for which the Hartmann Research Group at our Department has been preparing and characterizing these frameworks for the past 20 years.

In future, it could become easier to manufacture methanol from biomass decentrally on site. At Institute of Chemical Reaction Engineering, researchers are proposing a method with which raw and waste materials from plants can be processed in a self-contained procedure under mild reaction conditions. This method means that the complex drying and transportation of biomass to large biomass gasification plants becomes superfluous. The results were published in the journal “Green Chemistry”.