Chemistry

Dean Prof. Dr. Carsten Schmuck
Dean Prof. Dr. Carsten Schmuck

Twenty-three professors currently work at the Faculty of Chemistry in eight different institutes: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, ­Technical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, the Biofilm Centre, Chemistry Education, and Theoretical Chemistry. Half of the professors have been newly appointed over the past five years. The faculty has approximately 1600 undergraduates and just under 200 doctoral students, distributed evenly between the three offered tracks of study in Chemistry, Water Science and Teaching. This makes it one of the largest faculties of chemistry in Germany.
Each year approximately 40 young scientists, not only from Chemistry but also from Physics, Biology and Engineering, complete their PhDs in the faculty. Here it collaborates closely with the neighbouring Universities of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen and Krefeld. The faculty was one of the first at the University of Duisburg-Essen to set up a joint PhD programme with the Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences.
The faculty covers the full research spectrum in chemistry, from purely basic to more applied research. The latter is facilitated by associated ­research institutes such as the Deutsches Textilforschungszentrum Nordwest (DTNW) in Krefeld or the Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Water Research (IWW Water Centre) in Mülheim. Close research collaborations exist at all levels with the neighbouring Max-Planck Research Institutes in Mülheim (Carbon Research, Chemical Energy Conversion) and Dortmund (Physiological Chemistry). Scientists from these institutes are also assistant professors and associate lecturers in the Faculty of Chemistry. The founding director of the new Max Planck Research Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, which is currently being set up in Mülheim, has been appointed honorary professor of the faculty.