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ZEMOS will be realized
The Joint Science Conference approves the establishment of a “Center for Solvation Science”
100 RUB scientists will be investigating solvent driven and solvent controlled processes
The new research building ZEMOS at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) was approved by the Joint Science Conference of Germany (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz - GWK): About 44 M Euro will be assigned to the investigation of solvation processes (Solvation Science) at RUB. The new building will offer space for 100 scientists ranging from chemists, biochemists to engineers. Bridging the different and versatile disciplines will be realized in the “Center for Solvation Science” (German: „Zentrum für molekulare Spektroskopie und Simulation solvensgesteuerter Prozesse“ - ZEMOS). “The Ruhr-Universität is performing cutting-edge research in a research field that is rapidly evolving” as the ZEMOS director Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen (Physikalische Chemie) states. “This gives us the unique opportunity, to establish in Bochum an international Center for Solvation Science.”
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RUB Information on Campus Development
More than a bystander
"The tendency of hydrophobic surfaces to aggregate in water is often invoked to explain how biomolecules recognize and bind to each other. Water seems to have a much more active role in these processes than had been thought."
"News & Views" article written by PHILIP BALL in Nature 478 (2011) 467-468.
New international Master Program "Molecular Sciences and Simulation" (iMOS) started in 2011
This MSc program interfaces between the traditional disciplines of chemistry and physics with a strong focus on theoretical concepts, molecular spectroscopy and computer simulations. It is thus tailored for excellent students who want to learn in depth spectroscopic techniques in conjunction with quantum chemistry and molecular simulations, in order to tackle today‘s scientific challenges in (bio)molecular sciences in a broad sense.
Please refer for further details to iMOS Homepage.