Two PhD positions still available! Please check the job openings!
PhD Position 1 (application deadline Jan 5th):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
PhD Position 2 (application deadline Jan 22nd):
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Apply with cover letter and CV!
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Fantastic way to wrap up this year with our traditional Christmas dinner (Indian cuisine, as always). Thanks to everyone for their work and dedication in 2025! It was an eventful and fun year!
PhD position available! We are happy to announce another PhD Position in our group! This is a joint project with South Korea, so you will have the chance to spend 4-6 months in Seoul!
Application deadline: Jan 22nd 2026
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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Schaltbare Molekül sollen Stoffe in Wasser oder Blut aufzeigen: Chemiker:innen der UDE entwickelt dafür gemeinsam mit Partnern in Seoul winzige Systeme, die über Lichtsignale reagieren. Die DFG fördert das Projekt für drei Jahre.
Two prizes for group members!
Sophia was awarded with the faculty prize for her voluntary commitment in the faculty. Tim received the prize for the best Master-degree and best Master-thesis, which he carried out in the lab of Ben List.
Congratulations to both of you! We are proud of you!
Great news! We have received funding for a joint project with Prof. Joohoon Kim (analchem.khu.ac.kr/xe/jkim) from South Korea. Here, we will look at the use of rotaxanes for electroanalytical chemistry. Thanks to the DFG and NRF for funding (www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...)!
PhD position available!
You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026!
Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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The Niemeyer group started the Christmas season with a visit to the Christmas market! Cheers and a wonderful Advent season to everyone!
Registration for SupraChem2026 is open!
Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!
Watching the Nobel Prize announcement with pizza! Congratulations to the awardees! Well deserved! @nobelprize.bsky.social
After a thourough peer-review (as it should be), we are proud to say that our review on Supramolecular Self-Association of Organocatalysts has now been published in Nat. Rev. Chem.! Great work by Shounak @shounakhinge.bsky.social and Sohom @sohomkundu.bsky.social!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bela, Jey, Jochen, Shounak @shounakhinge.bsky.social and Sohom @sohomkundu.bsky.social presented the group´s research at the Symposium for Confinement Controlled Chemistry @grk2376.bsky.social in Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Good to see chemistry from a different perspective! Good work everyone!
Congratulations, Jake! We will miss you here in Germany!
The work by Somayyeh, Maike and Jan @riebe-chem.bsky.social on optimized synthetic routes towards BINOL-based crown ethers has now been published in Beilstein J. Org. Chem.! @beilstein-institut.bsky.social
Congratulations to all!
www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...
Congratulations to Matthias, who became PhD no. 8 from our group! He made great progress towards mechanically chiral catenanes, plus writing a review and contributing to other projects! See www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article... and enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Found this in our local shopping center. The fascination of the mechanical bond is everywhere 😂 #catenane
Happy to share that the recently founded Working Group „Supramolecular Chemistry“ of the German Chemical Society will Award its very first PhD Prize in memory of Carsten Schmuck. Please apply!
www.gdch.de/netzwerk-str...
Happy to share that our recent paper in Chem. Eur. J. was highlighted with a Cover Feature! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to Sasha Ediger (designmodus.com) for the beautiful image!
Sophia obviously has a good time at the 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Enjoy your last day Tomorrow!
Congratulations, Steve! Well deserved!
We are happy to share that Sophia from our group has been selected as a participant for this year´s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry. Congratulations Sophia and enjoy your time in Lindau in July!
www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2025
After a record-breaking 18 days from submission to final decision, we are happy to share the latest work by Sohom, Shubhadip and Jan in Chem. Eur. J.! They developed a rotaxane transporter for reversible macrocycle release and recapture!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Most happy that you are staying with us, Jan! Looking forward to many years of science together!
Supramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social
After almost one month of hard work, we have finished our move. The Niemeyer group can now be found on the fifth floor of the chemistry building (S07 S05)! Following Jochen´s promotion to full professor in 2023, we could now move into wonderful new synthesis labs, analytical labs and offices!
We have a new publication! The group by Ivo Leito investigated acidity-reactivity relationships of acidic catalysts, including one of our phosphoric acid catalysts! Now online in Molecular Catalysis!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.
Obituary: James Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024) chemist and nanotechnology pioneer who built molecular machines
https://go.nature.com/40MvkI9
Group news! We welcome Zihan (left) and Tibor (right) as new PhD students in our group! Tibor finished his Master in Bielefeld and joined in Nov 2024. Zihan just finished his Master in our group and joined this month. All the best for your research in the coming years. Great to have you with us!
