Welcome to the Einstein Center of Catalysis / BIG-NSE!
Participants of the BIG-NSE retreat 2019
The BIG-NSE is an international Graduate School founded on May 29 2007 at the Technische Universitaet Berlin (TUB). Between 2007 and 2018, the School has been part of the Cluster "Unified Concepts in Catalysis" (UniCat: see www.unicat.tu-berlin.de) founded in 2007 by the TUB and five other Institutions in the Berlin area within the framework of the "Excellence Initiative" of the German Government. UniCat has been running succesfully during all this time and in September 2018, the Excellence Initiative decided to finance its follow-up Cluster of Excellence "UniSysCat" (see www.unisyscat.de) for another 7 years at least.
Since January 2019, the BIG-NSE has been part of the "Einstein Center of Catalysis" (EC2) supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin. The concept of EC2, which is closely linked to the UniSysCat research cluster, aims to inspire, initiate, and promote novel collaborations between research networks and institutions in Berlin on cutting-edge projects in chemistry and the molecular life sciences that may, in turn, open new directions for future catalysis research. For this purpose, in the coming years EC2/BIG-NSE will recruit excellent PhD students from all over the world, whose task will be to work on highly interdisciplinary research projects, overcoming the frontiers of classical disciplines in catalysis (soon more details about these projects about the recruitment procedure).
Latest News
Best candidates for a BIG-NSE scholarships invited!
The best candidates for one of the 10 BIG-NSE scholarships (PhD start: winter semester 2008) have been invited for an interview. The first round of interviews will take place on May 6th (from 9 am to 4 pm), the second one on May...[more]
New!!! Guidelines for Applicants ready for download
At the end of this page, the Guidelines for Applicants (12 pages) can be downloaded as a pdf file.[more]
UniCat exzellent!
Die Ergebnisse der 2. Runde der Exzellenzinitiative sind vom Wissenschaftsrat bekannt gegeben worden: UniCat wird Exzellenzcluster! Erste Informationen finden Sie auf den Hauptseiten der Exzellenzinitiative der TU Berlin. Für...[more]
Treffen der Kollegiatinnen und Kollegiaten am 11. September 2007
Beim Spiel kann man einen Menschen in einer Stunde besser kennen lernen, als im Gespräch in einem Jahr!“ (Platon). So könnte das Motto des Treffens der BIG-NSE-Kollegiaten, welches am letzten Dienstag stattfand, lauten....[more]
Treffen der Kollegiatinnen und Kollegiaten im September
Meeting of the BIG-NSE-Kollegiatinnen and Kollegiaten in September[more]
Founding of the BIG-NSE on May 29
The BIG-NSE was founded at the TU Berlin on May 29 2007. Below is a short text describing the highlights of the ceremony (in German): Wissenschaftssenator Jürgen Zöllner und TU-Präsident Kurt Kutzler gründen "Berlin...[more]