Celebration time 🥳 - this time with Granita! Thrilled to announce that Tom has been awarded the highly esteemed Evonik DE scholarship for digital chemistry! Excited for his innovative research over the next 3 years. Thanks to the Evonik Stiftung for the generous support!

We are thrilled to welcome Hanna, who will be conducting her master’s thesis research in our group. Her previous experience in inorganic chemistry will bring a fresh perspective and an exciting new twist to our research. Welcome Hanna!

We are excited to welcome Shailesh as the third PhD student in our group. He has been awarded the highly regarded DAAD India PhD fellowship and will be contributing to our adventures in the area of peptide catalysis. Welcome to the team, Shailesh!

Are you looking for a PhD position in peptide synthesis, automation, and computational analysis? 🧪 💊💻 We have an open position for a collaborative PhD thesis (with Novo Nordisk). For more details, please see: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/… ⏰ Application deadline = November 15

Just back from an amazing group trip to the Vosges! Got lost in the woods, hiked, had raclette & science sessions, solved a murder mystery – Emily was guilty! – and stopped on the way back in Colmar for some culture. Check out schnitzerlab.de/grouptrip2024 for more photos.

Thrilled to have received the Eugen Graetz Award for young researchers at the Uni Freiburg during last week's ceremonial opening of the academic year. A big thank you to all my colleagues Freiburg Chemistry Institutes in particular BBreitLab, WerzLab & @JessenLab for their continuous support!

This week, Yichi started as a new Bachelor student in our team working together with Tom on the development of new peptide catalysts. Wishing you all the best and lots of success, Yichi!

Designing mini-enzymes? She can do it! Inspiring talk by Franziska Thomas, followed by a lively dinner with Oliver Dumele Babis Pappas & Claudia Jessen-Trefzer. Thanks, Franziska, for a fun day with lots of peptide science!

This week, Weiying starts as PhD student number four in our lab! We wish her lots of success and fun with our peptidic catalysts! 🥳

Fantastic talk about strained-ring chemistry by WahlLab in todays colloquium. Was a lot of fun having you around today! Thanks for your visit Johannes! With Oliver Dumele WerzLab Babis Pappas & Claudia Jessen-Trefzer

Yesterday, our team had an amazing Christmas party! Being passionate coffee lovers, we started the day at a pottery, crafting our own cups. Later, we enjoyed Glühwein at the Christmas market and ended the day with a breathtaking view from the top of the Freiburger Münster. 🎄✨

Woopwoop! Big news! 🍾🥳🚀 I’m incredibly honored to have received a major grant from the BW Stiftung and to now be part of the prestigious Baden-Württemberg Elite Network! Thanks so much for the generous support also from Universität Freiburg & Freiburg Chemistry Institutes bwstiftung.de/de/bereiche-pr…

Chemical progress by technological innovation - very happy to host Tim Noel Noel Research Group Universität Freiburg Freiburg Chemistry Institutes for a GDCh talk WerzLab Oliver Dumele BBreitLab Tobias Schnitzer Babis Pappas Krossing Group @jessenlab

Today, Rene Koenigs from RWTH Aachen delivered a beautiful lecture in our colloquium on the importance of spin states in photochemical reactions. Brilliant science followed by a delicious dinner to wrap up the day with WerzLab, Henning Jessen & Babis Pappas

Now everyone in Freiburg knows how to write chemoselectivity: with a P! Thanks, Christian Hackenberger The Hackenberger Group , for the exciting lesson today! It was great fun having you here with us! WerzLab Babis Pappas Henning Jessen, Reinhard Brückner & Bizan Balzer!

Excited to join the Early Career International Advisory Board of HelvChimActa! Looking forward to connecting with amazing scientists, strengthening the network, and supporting the journal.

🎉 Big day for our group: our first publication is out! Tom did a fantastic job highlighting current trends & opportunities in peptide catalysis — now published in Chem Catalysis (open access). Huge congrats, Tom! cell.com/chem-catalysis… #PeptideCatalysis #ChemCatalysis

As many others before me, I’ve decided to slowly fade out this account. It’ll stay up a bit longer, but from now on you’ll mostly find me over on Bluesky: @schnitzerlab.bsky.social