Department of Chemistry

The Givaudan-Karrer Lecture series was established in 2005. Each year, a distinguished Givaudan-Karrer visiting Professor visits the University of Zurich, and presents a short special topics course to the graduate students as well as a research lecture at Givaudan.

The Givaudan-Karrer visiting Professor of 2025 is Prof. Dr. Sarah Reisman from the California Institute of Technology, USA.

The "Universitätsrat" has appointed Jörg Standfuss as Associate Professor ad personam for Structural Biology at the Department of Chemistry as of July 1, 2025
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Sandra Luber receives the 2024 Walter Thiel Award. The award recognizes an outstanding scientific contribution of a young researcher based in a country affiliated to EuChemS. The award is granted every two years.
Sandra is the first woman and the first person from Switzerland receiving this award.

The exhibition ‘Radiotracer’ was developed jointly between the team of the Science Pavilion and lab of Prof. Jason Holland.
The opening is on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 16:00.