What’s the benefit of being a small group? You can rent a little bus and go on a road trip! Today, we drove to ETH Zürich to attend the Eschenmoser Symposium 2025 — a great event celebrating the 100th birthday of a true giant in chemistry. We enjoyed a fantastic lineup of talks and fun day at Hönggerberg. (LINK)

Today, Niclas starts a semester project in our labs working on the uncharted territory of mechanochemistry. We wish you best of luck in grinding us some cool products!

At this year’s Steinheimer Gespräche, Tobi joined past and present Liebig fellows to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie – a true success story! We are incredibly grateful for the FCI’s continuous support, which has played a key role in making our group and its research possible.

Last week, Tobi represented our group at this year’s Grasmere Heterocycle Conference in the Lake District, UK. The event was a true highlight – with beautiful weather, inspiring talks, and a fantastic community of researchers. A great opportunity to exchange ideas and reconnect with colleagues in the field of heterocyclic chemistry!

Jeff joins our group a second time! He will do a semester project in our group focussing on the synthesis of an organocatalyst library. Good luck Jeff!

Today, Lionel started his Bachelor thesis in our group focussing on boronic acid catalyzed reactions. We wish him best of luck!

Julia starts as a project student in our labs. She will work together with Joshi on exciting new opportunities in organocatalysis. Have Fun!

Today, we are celebrating the very first publication of our group. Tom did a magnificent job in sharing our perspectives on current trends and opportunites in the field of peptide catalysis. His article was published today in Chem Catalysis (open access)! Congrats Tom! 

Great to have to here Benoît! Benoît joins us for a 3-months research stay from the university of Heidelberg. Exctiting chemistry ahead!

Celebration time! After half a year of hard work, Johannes handed in his master thesis today. We celebrated this special day in Moe`s tavern with a good, cold beer! 

Clara joins us from Strasbourg to perform her master thesis in our labs. We wish her lots of great results in her research of combinig organocatalysis with machine learning!

Tobi is excited to join the Early Career International Advisory Board of Helvetica Chimica Acta!

Time for this years 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.

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

Woopwoop!  Big News Alert! Tobi has won a major grant from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung and is part of the prestigious BW Elite Network now!

Yichi starts 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!

Just back from our group trip to the Vosges! Got lost in the woods, hiked to 1300 m (okay, 1100 m was the parking lot), had raclette & science sessions, solved a murder mystery – Emily was guilty! – and stopped on the way back in Colmar for some culture. Check out here for more photos.

Tobi received the Eugen Graetz Award for young researchers at the University of Freiburg during the ceremonial opening of the academic year. What a great recognition of our hard work.

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!

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!

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

Celebrating our second PhD student, Joshua! Today marks the beginning of his exciting journey with us, which we celebrated with a wonderful lunch outside. We wish you great success and many catalytic peptides!

Amazing time at the Kastaniengarten tonight with everyone! The food was delicious – absolutely lekker! Afterwards, catching the view over Freiburg from Kanonenplatz. I'm so excited for a great summer in Freiburg.

Our first bachelor thesis student! A warm welcome to Jeff and to many great things ahead! 

Welcome Wassim! Wassim came from Dijon to join our team for a 4 months research stay. We wish him lots of success!

Congratulations Tom!!! Tom is the first student from our group to defend his Master thesis, and he did a phenomenal job. We are so excited that Tom will be the first PhD student of the Schnitzer Lab starting next week. 

Our team is growing! A warm welcome to Johannes, who started as a semester project student in our group.

Lab Dinner Time: After a long day of work, we unwound with a relaxing evening at Naherholung – truly, could there be a better place? – sharing delicious pizzas and enjoy time together.

Christmas Party!!! Our lab had a great trip to Colmar to visit the local Christmas market and finish the day with a tasty tarte flambée. Merry Christmas to all of you and thanks for a great first year at university of Freiburg. 

Welcome to Thomas, who starts in our Lab as a semester project student.

Tobi presents our research at the Bioorganic Conference at Munich.

Tobi presents a glimpse of our work at the Regiosymposium in Freiburg with his talk "Rethinking Small Molecule Catalyst Development"

Today, the Schnitzer group doubled its size: Tom Kuster joins our team for his Master thesis. He will deep-dive into the world of peptide catalysis!

What an amazing Easter surprise: Take a look at our stunning laboratory located on the 4th floor of the Chemiehochhaus!

The Schnitzer Lab starts exciting research on target-selective catalysis at the University of Freiburg! Thanks to the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for the support!