Department of Chemistry

Unlocking Automation, Accelerating Chemistry.
Celebrate this joyous occasion with us and join the HTEL Opening Event on February 12, 2026! Together with our partner Chemspeed, we invite you to learn about powerful automation approaches in chemistry and cutting-edge developments towards self-driving labs in our scientific symposium.

Oliver Zerbe is working on an active ingredient that attacks disease-causing
bacteria in a new way and kills them.

Congratulation to Nina Hartrampf on winning the Werner Prize 2026. The Werner Prize is awarded to promising young scientists working in Switzerland for outstanding research in the field of chemistry.

Prof. Nina Hartrampf from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Zurich received the DECHEMA Award 2024 for her pioneering contributions to process development and automation of methods for the production of complex and widely applicable peptides.

The University of Zurich was the first university in Europe to admit women and the first in the world to award a doctorate in chemistry to a woman, Lydia Sesemann from Viborg. The Swiss Academy of Sciences is now honoring the University of Zurich as an important historical site for chemistry with a Chemical Landmark.

Bogdan Dereka, SNSF Ambizione Fellow in the group of Peter Hamm, receives an ERC starting grant for his project: Electric field effects in chemistry and catalysis. The European Research Council supports with these grants excellent early career researchers. The backing will help researchers at the beginning of their careers to launch their own projects, build research teams and pursue their most promising ideas.
The success rate of submitted proposals was 12%. Congratulation to Bogdan!