Battery Research Centre: new international research school opened

From left: Monika Stoll (Vice-Rector for Research at Münster University), Martin Winter (Director of the MEET Battery Research Centre), NRW Science Minister Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen and Hans-Ulrich Humpf (Dean of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy) opened the new BACCARA international research school in Münster on Wednesday. WWU - Peter Leßmann Longer ranges for electric vehicles and the effective storage of electricity from renewable energies - these are research topics for the future which PhD students in Münster will be working on in a new international Graduate School. The research centre for "Battery Chemistry, Characterization, Analysis, Recycling and Application" (BACCARA for short) was officially opened on August 5 at the MEET Battery Research Centre at the University of Münster. It was set up with the participation of Münster University's Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and the Helmholtz Institute Münster - an outstation of the Jülich Research Centre. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is providing 9.5 million euros of funding for the school over five years. "Promoting junior researchers will be decisive for the future success of battery research at Münster and is therefore especially important for the NRW government," said Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, NRW's Minister of Culture and Science, as she presented the confirmation of funding at the MEET Battery Research Centre. "I very much hope that the BACCARA research school will be included in the CVs of many young researchers developing high-performance batteries of the future," she added.