Research

The faculty consists of eight institutes (the research foci of the institutes you can find on their individual homepages). The three big institutes of Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry represent the classical areas of research and teaching within chemistry. The areas of research and the academic offerings are supplemented by activities of the five smaller institutes of the faculty (Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, Institute of Material Science, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Institute of Technical Chemistry as well as the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry). The research of the faculty of chemistry is focused on the following topics:

• Sustainable Synthesis and Catalysis
• Smart Materials and Functional Molecules
• Biological Chemistry and Biotechnology
• Theory and Simulation in Chemistry and Materials Sciences

An essential characteristic of the research at the institutes of the faculty of chemistry is the versatile and close cooperation with other subjects within the natural sciences and engineering at the Universität Stuttgart, e.g.

• in the Research Training Group in materials science, RTG 2948 Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport: From Fundamentals to Application, Spokesperson is Prof. Dr Jana Zaumseil (Heidelberg); co-spokesperson is Prof. Dr Sabine Ludwigs (Stuttgart)
• in the Collborative Research Center Molecular heterogeneous catalysis in confined geometries SFB 1333 (speaker Prof. Michael Buchmeiser)
• in the Stuttgart Research Centrer Systems Biology (SRC SB),
• in the Collaborative Research Center SFB 716 "Dynamic Simulation of Systems with Large Number of Particles" 
• in the Cluster of Excellence SimTech Simulation Technology.

Further Projects are the Projecthouse NanobioMater.

• Prof. Blazej Grabowski, Materials 4.0 (2020) (Consolidator Grant)
• Prof. Peer Fischer, Holographic acoustic assembly and manipulation (Holoman) (2018) (Advanced Grant)
• Prof. Johannes Kästner, Atom-Tunneling in Chemistry (Tunnelchem) (2015) (Consolidator Grant)
• Prof. Blazej Grabowski, Time-scale bridging potentials for realistic molecular dynamics simulations (TIME-BRIDGE) (2015) (Starting Grant)
• Prof. Hans-Joachim Werner, Advancing computational chemistry with new accurate, robust and scalable electronic structure methods (2013) (Advanced Grant)
• Prof. Peer Fischer, Chiral Nanostructured Surfaces and Colloidal Microbots (CHIRALMICROBOTS) (2012) (Starting Grant)