Paderborn University

Paderborn University

Location: Paderborn - Nordrhein-Westfalen

Paderborn University involved in a joint project. After a disaster such as a severe flood or earthquake, many people want to provide spontaneous help. Ways to coordinate this readiness to help quickly and deploy it in as target-oriented a way as possible are being investigated by partners from academia, business, administration and the general public as part of a new project financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Scientists discover new superacid: Substance converts harmful compounds into sustainably usable chemicals Scientists at the University of Paderborn have succeeded in producing very special catalysts, so-called Lewis superacids, with the help of which strong chemical bonds can be split and reactions accelerated.
The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK NRW) today announced that Junior Professor Hans-Georg Steinrück, a chemist at Paderborn University, is one of 17 researchers to have been admitted to its Young Academy (Das Junges Kolleg).
