WHAT`S NEW?
06. June 2025 – Trip to the Eschenmoser Symposium
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)

02. June 2025 – Welcome Niclas
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!

23. May 2025 – Celebrating 75 years of FCI
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.

19. May 2025 – Tobi @ Grasmere Conference
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!

28. April 2025 – Welcome back Jeff
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!

28. April 2025 – Lionel starts his Bachelor thesis
Today, Lionel started his Bachelor thesis in our group focussing on boronic acid catalyzed reactions. We wish him best of luck!

22. April 2025 – Welcome Julia
Julia starts as a project student in our labs. She will work together with Joshi on exciting new opportunities in organocatalysis. Have Fun!

21. April 2025 – First Publication!!!
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!

07. April 2025 – Welcome Benoît
Great to have to here Benoît! Benoît joins us for a 3-months research stay from the university of Heidelberg. Exctiting chemistry ahead!

31. March 2025 – Johannes hands in his Master thesis
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!

03. March 2025 – Welcome Clara
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!

01. February 2025 – Tobi @ Helvetica Chemical Acta
Tobi is excited to join the Early Career International Advisory Board of Helvetica Chimica Acta!

03. December 2024 – Christmas Party
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.

01. December 2024 – Welcome Weiying
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!

25. November 2024 – Tobi is a member of the BW Elite Network
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!

21. October 2024 – Welcome Yichi
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!

16.-18. October 2024 – First group trip
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.

16. October 2024 – Tobi wins Eugen Graetz Award
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.

01. October 2024 – New PhD student Shailesh
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!

02. September 2024 – Hanna starts her Master thesis
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!

30. July 2024 – Tom got an Evonik Fellowship
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!

09. July 2024 – 2nd PhD student Joshi
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!

14. May 2024 – Group dinner @ beer garden
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.

22. April 2024 – Jeff is our first Bachelor student
Our first bachelor thesis student! A warm welcome to Jeff and to many great things ahead!

02. April 2024 – Wassim joins us from France
Welcome Wassim! Wassim came from Dijon to join our team for a 4 months research stay. We wish him lots of success!

25. March 2024 – Tom defended his Masters & starts as 1st PhD
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.

20. March 2024 – Welcome Johannes
Our team is growing! A warm welcome to Johannes, who started as a semester project student in our group.

06. March 2024 – Lab dinner with great pizza
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.

18. December 2023 – Christmas excursion to Colmar
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.

23. October 2023 – Thomas is our first student from Freiburg
Welcome to Thomas, who starts in our Lab as a semester project student.

15. September 2023 – Tobi presents @ BioOrganic Conference
Tobi presents our research at the Bioorganic Conference at Munich.

28. August 2023 – Regiosymposium in Freiburg
Tobi presents a glimpse of our work at the Regiosymposium in Freiburg with his talk "Rethinking Small Molecule Catalyst Development"

10. July 2023 – Tom starts as very first student in the lab
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!

13. April 2023 – Easter egg
What an amazing Easter surprise: Take a look at our stunning laboratory located on the 4th floor of the Chemiehochhaus!

01. April 2023 – Welcome to Freiburg
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!
