The Senior Chemistry Experts Group strengthens the intergenerational understanding of chemistry

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The Senior Chemistry Experts Group is active. It organises and offers easy-to-understand online lectures for everyone. The programme is multifaceted and covers all areas of chemistry in science and industry as well as current topics that affect society and politics. The lectures take place monthly at 3 pm.

2025

• 14.01.2025 Stefan Gürtzgen: Renewable energies - technological foundations and importance for sustainable life on our planet
• 18.02.2025 Klemens Minn: Our path to the new herbicide Indaziflam - Industrial development of a crop protection product
• 18.03.2025 Bernhard Blümich: Compact NMR on site: Non-destructive material testing, cultural heritage and chemical analysis
• 15.04.2025 Frauke Zbikowski:Communicating with scientific laymen
• 13.05.2025 Werner Hofmann: Where does medical progress come from?
• 17.06.2025 Kurt Wagemann: Hydrogen - what role will it play in achieving Germany's climate targets?
• 15.07.2025 Dieter H. E. Kunz:Opportunities and limits of plastics recycling
• 16.09.2025 Ursula Hoeppener-Kramar: From the big bang to radiation protection
• 07.10.2025 Franz Bracher: From nature to bedside. The role of natural products in the development of cytostatic drugs
• 11 November 2025 Klaus Roth: How do you finally win the Nobel Prize?
• 02.12.2025 Ekkehard Schwab: Energies - our elixir of life

2024

• 16.01.2024, Klaus-Dieter Jany: From the stem cell to the structured piece of meat
• 20.02.2024 Helmut Ritter: Functional polymers in research and practice: Where would we be without them?
• 19.03.2024 Andreas Wolf: Chemistry of silicone sealants - more complex than you think
• 09.04.2024 Günther Kempe: Food scandals - residue analysis
  28.05.2024 Wladimir Reschetilowski: Multifunctionality in heterogeneous catalysis
• 18.06.2024 Hendrik Emons: Analytical chemistry for the design and monitoring of European legislation
• 23.07.2024 Eberhard Ehlers: Drugs and addiction - a problem for all societies
• 17.09.2024 Ekkehard Schwab: Magnetband - Was ist daraus geworden?
  08.10.2024 Gerhard Kreysa: Strategies for decarbonising the atmosphere
• 12.11.2024 Renate Kießling: The chemical society of the GDR and its actors
• 03.12.2024 Bernhard Fritz: Contact with food - laws, physics, chemistry

2023

• 10.01.2023 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Let there be light - LEDs, LCDs and OLEDs
• 14.02.2023 Gerhard Heywang: The chemistry between 6:30 and 7:30
• 21.03.2023 Ekkehard Schwab: Rohstoffwandel in der chemischen Industrie
• 18.04.2023 Klaus Roth: Dieter Oesterhelt (1940-2022) and his bacteriorhodopsin
• 16.05.2023 Michael Röper: Homogeneous catalysis in the chemical industry
• 20.06.2023 Petra Schultheiß-Reimann: Lithium: das weiße Gold der Andden
• 18.07.2023 Dieter Kunz: Pyrolysis of used tyres for the recovery of carbon black
• 19.09.2023 Ludwig Kuhlmann: Variability of analytical methods - the crux with the individual values
• 10.10.2023 Gisela Boeck: Ferdinand Runge (1794-1867) - und der Bildungstrieb der Stoffe
• 07.11.2023 Wladimir Reschetilowski: Microstructure reactors for process optimisation
• 28.11.2023 Roland Bitsch: Water - the source of life

2022

• 18.01.2022 Ludwig Kuhlmann: Radionuclides - human helpers
• 15.02.2022 Ekkehard Schwab: Industrial heterogeneous catalysis
• 08.03.2022 Otto Machhammer: German energy transition - What's next?
• 05.04.2022 Gerhard Heywang: Ei, ei, ei - Wissenswertes über Eier
• 24.05.2022 Roland Bitsch: Critical vitamins and vulnerable population groups in Germany
• 21.06.06.2022 Eberhard Ehlers: The widespread disease diabetes and its therapy
• 12.07.2022 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Chemistry for energy storage technologies
• 13.09.2022 Michael Röper: Chemical utilisation of carbon dioxide - What works and what makes sense?
• 11.10.2022 Gerhard Heywang: The Tongue - a Thousand Sassa
• 08.11.2022 Gisela Boeck: Latvian, Russian or German? Organic chemist, physical chemist or historian? The life and work of Paul Walden (1863-1957)
• 29 November 2022 Eberhard Ehlers: Nature as a source of new active pharmaceutical ingredients

2021

• 19.01.2021 Eberhard Ehlers: Women in the natural sciences
• 02.03.2021 Klaus-Dieter Jany: Genetic engineering in everyday life - not only in vaccination
• 30.03.2021 Thomas Brock: Modern, environmentally friendly types of coatings - production, properties, areas of application
• 27.04.04.2021 Dieter Kunz: Plastikmüll - Wissen und Spekulation
• 18.05.2021 Ekkehard Schwab: Energy our elixir of life - where it comes from, where it goes
• 22.06.06.2021 Gerhard Kreysa; Strategies, visions and illusions for saving the climate
• 06.07.2021 Gisela Boeck: "You will have received my little atomic hoax" - Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) - His life and work
• 02.09.2021 Klaus-Dieter Jany: "CRISPR/Cas und Co" - Die neuen Verfahren zur Modifizierung der genetischen Information - Quo vadis?" - Losiert die EU den Anschluss in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft
• 28.09.2021 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Musik fürs Auge - Farbe, Glanz und Funktion moderner Farbpigmente
• 19.10.2021 Hartwig Müller: Small molecules, big impact - trace gases in the atmosphere
• 23.11.2021 Helmut Ritter: Süsse Cyclodextrine - Kunstvolle Wirt-Gast-Chemie und praktische Anwendungen

What would the world be without chemistry it would be dull and empty. There would be no seniors who could explain once more what atoms and molecules are and how they react, and what can happen quickly in nature. We know that in chemistry it doesn't always stink and crash, because most of the time the build-up and breakdown happens quietly and gently. The number of SEC experts who undauntedly and without complaint bring their knowledge to market at universities, schools and kindergartens, thus explaining what holds the world together at its core, is also very popular among colleagues

especially in times of coronavirus, offering to spread their knowledge on an ad hoc basis. From genetic engineering to the climate crisis from trace gases to paint selection our wide-ranging expertise extends, entirely virtually and digitally. With Crispr/Cas biochemistry coming up, and then at the end the elixir of energy cyclodextrins, colour pigments. Once upon a time, chemists were mostly male, but from now on we see more or less: The eternal feminine attracts us. It is well known and not entirely unimportant: Those who only understand chemistry do not understand this subject properly and easily go astray. Roland Bitsch

Kurt Wagemann: Biogenic and synthetic fuels
Previously: New recycling method (start-up)

Kurt Wagemann: Biogenic and synthetic fuels