Last week we had a group of BMBF students at our institute. On 23th of October they were able to have a small insight in the work of our group. They followed around Philipp and Laura during their day and were able to test some devices on their own.

We are happy to announce that our group has grown a lot! We welcomed Chunting, Changming and Rui as new PhD students in the last month! Good to have you here!

On 26th of October our group went on a group activity to the Laserbase Karlsruhe to celebrate Frank's Nature Chemistry paper. We had two great team fights with a lot of fun and laughter and some unexpected hits from hidden players! Also some of the group members honored their lasertag name extremely ;)

Laura gave her first scientific talk entitled „Design and synthesis of a cucurbit[8]uril-based model system for investigating face-to-face pi-stacking complexes“ at the Third Summer School of the SPP 1807 in Hamburg.

Stephan was awarded with the "Prix de Thése" from the Université de Strasbourg by "Les Amis d'Universités de l'Académie de Strasbourg" for his thesis Université de Strasbourg under the supervision of Prof. Luisa de Cola and Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn.

Ala joined us as PhD candidate! She is a polish chemist and supports us in reaching our synthesis aims! Good to have you here!