For the sake of clarity, the topics of the lectures offered are categorised into the following subject areas:

- Management
- Natural science
- Energy
- History
- General chemistry
- Dyes
- Plastics, polymers
- Biochemistry, biotechnology, genetic engineering
- Pharmacy and medicine
- Food chemistry
- Water
- Photochemistry
- Industrial chemistry, materials
- Environment

Organisational Travel expenses will be covered by the inviting party. No fees will be charged. Please contact the speakers directly for appointment coordination.

List of topics (see below) To open the individual topics, please click on the green triangle. Alternatively, you can download the complete list of topics as a PDF. The links by the name lead to the relevant page of the speaker with a more detailed title and information on the target group and duration of the presentation.

• Quo Vadis pharmaceutical research? (Kleemann)
• The changing pharmaceutical industry (Kleemann)
• The long road from idea to product (Heywang)
• When does an investment pay off? Dealing with risk (Kunz)
• The labour situation of chemists in Europe (Salzer)

• Scientific careers (Stevens)
• Science experiments in kindergarten (Stevens)
• What makes us vibrate? Acoustics and standing waves (physics) (Heywang)
• A little light is burning (Heywang)
• Can chemistry be kosher? (Roth)
• Children's exhibition 'Pipette' (Schram)
• Stockholm or Harvard? (Roth)
• Curiosity and scientific progress (Franz)
• Serendipity or the role of chance in discoveries (Ehlers)
• Women and science (Ehlers)
• Stimulating states for stimulating chemistry - Curricular innovation research in chemistry didactics (Tausch)
• Photons and Molecules - Experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Tausch)
• Light laboratory plant - Experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Tausch)
• Photo & Nano: a strong pair - Thin layers with key functions (Exchange)
• The tongue - a jack of all trades (Exchange)
• The tongue a jack-of-all-trades (Heywang)
• There's something dripping - (almost) everything about drops (Heywang)

• Chemistry for energy storage technologies (Franz)
• Production-integrated environmental protection (Heywang)
• Fracking - cheap energy with bad consequences? (Bader)
• Energy, our elixir of life - where does it come from, where does it go? (Schwab)
• Efficient, electric heating with carbon (Kunz)
• Excited states for stimulating chemistry - curricular innovation research in the Curricular innovation research in chemistry didactics (Tausch)
• On the way to artificial photosynthesis - light on! Also in chemistry lessons! (Tausch)
• Lichtlabor Pflanze - Experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Tausch)
• Chemical utilisation of carbon dioxide - what is possible and what makes sense (Röper)
• Lithium: the white gold of the Andes (Schultheiß-Reimann)
• Renewable energies - technological foundations and significance for sustainable life on our planet (Gürtzgen)

• Heroes of Science - Bernoulli, Carothers, Hoffmann and Bayer (Heywang)
• Dimitri I.Mendeleev - a multi-talent? (Boeck)
• Mensch und Chemie - Gesellschaft, Kulturgeschichte einer Hassliebe (Schram)
• Book exhibition on chemistry books from 500 years (Schram)
• Dyes through the ages (Hartmann)
• The Dresden Dye Collection (Hartmann)
• 150 years of the periodic table of elements (Ehlers)
• Women and science (Ehlers)
• Luminescence - a paradigm shift for colour: "Colours are acts of light" (Tausch)
• The Walden inversion and the man behind it (Boeck)
• About the first female chemists (Boeck)
• Lothar Meyer and the periodic table (Boeck)
• The fate of Jewish chemists during the National Socialist era (Boeck)
• Ferdinand Friedlieb Runge and a forerunner of chromatography - the Runge pictures (Boeck)
• The discovery of nitroglycerine and what became of it (Ehlers)
• Wilhelm Ostwald and the birth of modern catalysis (Koppe)
• Paracelsus - genius instead of chemistry (Koppe)
• The development of chemistry into an independent branch of science (Salzer)

• Fascination with chemistry: "Vivaldi goes Chemistry" (Full and Ruf)
• The chemical magic of a Stradivarius (Roth)
• H₂O - tapped and originally corked (Roth)
• Can chemistry be kosher? (Roth)
• Highlights from everyday chemistry - experiments with supermarket products (Schwedt)
• Molecules that move the world - Part 1: Small molecules, big impact (Ehlers)
• Molecules that move the world - Part 2: Molecules as the building blocks of life (Ehlers)
• Molecules that move the world - Part 3: Active ingredient molecules that have made history (Ehlers)
• Sweet chemistry - experiments from glucose to starch (Schwedt)
• Chemistry for Energy Storage Technologies (Franz)
• Function, Invention, Innovation - Key Technology Chemistry (Franz)
• Crystals and their Cultivation (Altenburg)
• World of crystals (Altenburg)
• Salt - crystals of life (Bitsch)
• From common salt to ruby (Altenburg)
• Right and left - also a chemical problem (Boeck)
• Chemistry in computers (Hecht)
• Solar catalysis - gentle chemistry with air and sun (Kisch)
• Science and art: companions and sisters in spirit (Schreckenbach)
• Measurement in chemistry (Zschunke)
• Term analysis in chemistry (Zschunke)
• 150 years of the persiondenum system of the elements (Ehlers)
• Change in the utilisation of raw materials for the chemical industry (Schwab)
• Industrial catalysis - a decisive success factor for the chemical industry. a decisive success factor for the chemical industry (Schwab)
• Photons and molecules - experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Tausch)
• Photosynthesis, a case for two - interaction of chlorophyll and β-carotene in photosynthesis (Texchange)
• Photo & Nano: a strong pair - Thin layers with key functions (exchange)
• Luminescence - a paradigm shift for colour: "Colours are acts of light" (Exchange)
• The tongue, a jack-of-all-trades (Heywang)
• Value chains in industrial organic chemistry (Röper)
• Homogeneous catalysis in the chemical industry (Röper)
• Chemical utilisation of carbon dioxide - what is possible and what makes sense (Röper)
• The measurement of water (Koppe)
• Lithium: the white gold of the Andes (Schultheiß-Reimann)

• Dyes through the ages (Hartmann)
• The Dresden dye collection (Hartmann)
• Dyeing with natural dyes (Hartmann)
• Colour - music to the eye and the look of effect pigments (Franz)
• Tatoo - chemistry that gets under your skin (Roth)
• Tatoo Berlin: Berliner Blau - seine Entdecker und Verräter (Roth)
• Photo & Nano: a strong pair - Thin layers with key functions (Tausch)
• Luminescence - a paradigm shift for colour: "Colours are acts of light" (Exchange)

• Functional plastics - secret helpers in everyday life (Rehan)
• Fibre composites - efficient materials modelled on nature (Kunz)
• Plastikmüll: Knowledge and speculation (Kunz)
• The world of large molecules! - Plastics: curse or blessing? (Ehlers)

• Chemical and physiological properties of plant polyphenols (Bitsch)
• Contributions of biotechnology to the treatment of the widespread disease diabetes mellitus (Ehlers)
• Nature as a role model - isolation of new drugs from natural sources (Ehlers)
• Isolation and purification of active pharmaceutical ingredients from culture broths (Ehlers)
• Vitamin D - a well-known and newly evaluated vitamin (Bitsch)
• Chromatography - a key technology for the purification of biopharmaceuticals (Ehlers)
• The importance of biotechnology for the industrial production of new substances (Ehlers)
• Genetic engineering - what is it? How does it work? (Jany)
• Genetic engineering in everyday life (Jany)
• Genetically modified food - opportunities and risks (Jany)
• Green genetic engineering - forming opinions in discourse (Jany)
• Ecotoxicology - conventional and genetically modified plants (Jany)
• From Mendel to modern plant breeding (Jany)
• Chemistry of the Cell - Live or Die (Saaler-Reinhardt)
• Chemistry of the Cell - Transboundary Molecular Transport (Saaler-Reinhardt)
• From seafarers, guinea pigs and citrus fruits (Roth)
• Utilising biotechnology to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (Kleemann)
• On the road to artificial photosynthesis - light on! Also in chemistry lessons! (Tausch)
• Lichtlabor Pflanze - Experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Tausch)
• Photo & Nano: a strong pair - Thin layers with key functions (Exchange)

• Quo Vadis pharmaceutical research? (Kleemann)
• The changing pharmaceutical industry (Kleemann)
• What makes pharmaceutical drug research so attractive? (Kleemann)
• Alternative forms of therapy! - Fashionable? Bestsellers? Charlatanism? Placebo effect? What's behind it all? (Ehlers)
• Iodine contrast agents for computed tomography (CT) (Schmitt-Willich)
• Gadolinium contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Schmitt-Willich)
• Contributions of chemistry to imaging diagnostics: contrast agents in CT, MR tomography and PET (Schmitt-Willich)
• Drugs and addiction - a problem for all societies (Ehlers)

• Sekt - also scientifically sparkling! (Heywang)
• Egg, egg, egg! (Heywang) NEW: also available as an online lecture
• Healthy ingredients in fruit and vegetables - visualised in experiments (Schwedt)
• Principles of nutrition for senior citizens (Bitsch)
• Meat - a dispensable food? (Bitsch)
• The chemistry of espresso (Roth)
• The chemical secret of the Christmas scent (Roth)
• H₂O - tapped and originally corked (Roth)
• Can chemistry be kosher? (Roth)
• Sweeteners, the sweet side of chemistry (Roth)
• The chemistry of sauces - from Paul Boucuse to the sachet (Roth)
• From the first beer to the hangover (Roth)
• Chocolate - a chemical intoxication of the senses (Roth)
• Absinthe - The Kiss of the Green Fairy (Roth)
• The Chemical Secret of the Berlin Currywurst (Roth)
• Who's Afraid of the Big E? (Food additives; Roth)
• From the Isenheim Altar to the Beatles (Roth)
• Chili - ''Some like it hot! (Roth)
• Food of the future - Novel Foods (Jany)
• Food intolerances - Allergies and pseudoallergies (Jany)
• Chemistry and physiology of vitamins (Bitsch)
• Calcium, iron and iodine as critical minerals/trace elements in
  the population (Bitsch)
• Fragrances, flavours, olfactory pleasures (Büning-Pfaue)
• Lust auf Chemie in Lebensmitteln (Büning-Pfaue)
• Honey and sweets from nature (Heywang)

• Water - an everyday miracle (Heywang)
• Pitsch-Platsch - Experiments with water (Heywang)
• Physics and Chemistry of Water (Altenburg)
• Water as the Elixir of Life - The Water Needs of Humans (Bitsch)
• There's something dripping - (almost) everything about drops (Heywang)
• Water: Cooling - Dissolving - Corrosion (Koppe)
• The measurement of water (Koppe)

• Solar catalysis - gentle chemistry with air and sun (Kisch)
• On the way to artificial photosynthesis - light on! Also in chemistry lessons! (Tausch)
• Photons and molecules - experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Tausch)
• Lichtlabor Pflanze - Experimental lecture and workshop for schools and universities (Exchange)
• Excited states for stimulating chemistry - Curricular innovation research in chemistry didactics (Tausch)
• Photosynthese - ein Fall für zwei - Interaction of chlorophyll and β-carotene in photosynthesis (Tausch)
• Photo & Nano - a strong pair (Tausch)

• Developing chemical processes from the laboratory to production readiness (Stevens)
• Teaching chemical production (Stevens)
• The long road from idea to product (Heywang)
• Functional plastics - secret helpers in everyday life (Rehan)
• Electrically conductive polymers - history and current applications (Heywang)
• From petroleum to polycarbonates (Heywang)
• Lithium (Rittmeyer)
• Ceramic superconducting substances (Altenburg)
• Perspectives of chemistry on the way to nano-electronics (Waser)
• Change in the utilisation of raw materials for the chemical industry (Schwab)
• Industrial catalysis - a decisive success factor for the chemical industry (Schwab)
• Carbon - true gold? (Kunz)
• Efficient, electric heating with carbon (Kunz)
• Value chains in industrial organic chemistry (Röper)
• Homogeneous catalysis in the chemical industry (Röper)
• Changing the raw material base for the chemical industry (Röper)
• Changing raw material base for the (petro)chemical industry (Schwab)

• Production-integrated environmental protection (Heywang)
• Fracking - cheap energy with nasty consequences? (Bader)
• Energy, our elixir of life - where does it come from, where does it go? (Schwab)
• Change in the utilisation of raw materials for the chemical industry (Schwab)
• How can the IR absorption of CO₂ be calculated with "on-board tools"? (Kunz)
• Plastikmüll: Knowledge and speculation (Kunz)
• Energy efficiency through material selection (Kunz)
• Strategy, Visions and illusions to save the climate (Kreysa)
• Small molecules, big effect - trace gases in the atmosphere (Müller)
• Renewable energies - technological foundations and significance for sustainable life on our planet (Gürtzgen)

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