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          January 2025
        
        
          Visiting Professorship in Sydney
        
        
          - Visiting Professorial Fellow of the School of Chemistry / UNSW RNA Institute, Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) für Prof. Rainer Herges, Jan. 2025 – Dez. 2027.
          
        
        
        
          December 2024
        
        
          Familie Schindler Promotionspreis for Arne Brahms
        
        
          - Familie Schindler Promotionspreis awarded to Arne Brahms for his Dissertation „Synthese neuer Kontrastmittel für die para-Wasserstoff induzierte Hyperpolarisations Magnet Resonanz Tomographie“
          
        
        
        
          December 2024
        
        
          Otto-Diels-Award for Jonas Lobbel
        
        
          - Otto-Diels-Preis awarded to Jonas Lobbel for his master thesis „Darstellung von α-Ketoglutarat-Präkursor-
Verbindungen für die para-Wasserstoff-Hyperpolarisation“
          
        
        
        
          December 2024
        
        
          Emanuel-Vogel-Lecture (Köln)
        
        
          - Emanuel-Vogel-Lecture (Köln) awarded to  Prof. Rainer Herges for his achievements in the field of annulenes and porphyrins
          
        
        
        
          September 2024
        
        
          Visiting Professorship in Prague
        
        
          - Visiting Professorship für Prof. Rainer Herges am IOCB Prag, Sept.-Nov. 2024
          
        
        
        
          April 2024
        
        
          Visiting Professorship in Mohali
        
        
          - Visiting Professorship für Prof. Rainer Herges am IISER Mohali, March-April 2024
          
        
        
        
          April 2024
        
        
          Recent Conferences (Co-)Organized by Prof. Herges:
        
        
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            Mach-5: Molecular Machinery: Making, Measuring, Modeling 
            
 01. - 04. Sept. 2024, Bertinoro (Italien)
- Molecular Rotors, Motors, and Switches
            
 July 11 - 15, 2022, Telluride, Colorado, USA
- Mach-5: Molecular Machinery: Making, Measuring, Modeling
            
 September 11 - 14, 2022, Plön, Germany
        
        
        
          March 2024
        
        
          Invited Lectures
        
        
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            18. - 20. Nov.  Organic24 conference of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), Adelaide (Australien)
          
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            07. - 09. Nov.  Advances in Organic, Bioorganic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Špindlerův Mlýn (Tschechien)
          
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            24. Sept.  IOCB Prag (Tschechien)
          
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            01. - 04. Sept.  Mach-5, Bertinoro (Italien) 
          
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            11. - 16. Aug.  ISNA, Toronto (Canada) 
          
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            03. - 04. Juni  Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken)
          
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            14. - 16. Mai   Magnetism & Light, Bordeaux (Frankreich)
          
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            02. Apr.  IISER Mohali
          
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            23. März  IIT Bombay (Indien)
          
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            21. März  IISER Bhopal (Indien)
          
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            15. 16. Feb.  Prag (Tschechien)
          
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            15. Jan.  Dechema, Frankfurt
          
        
        
        
          September 2023
        
        
          Adolf-von-Baeyer-Denkmünze 2023 awarded to Prof. Dr. Rainer Herges
        
        
          - Professor Rainer Herges is the awardee of the Adolf von Baeyer Medal 2023. He is honored for his outstanding and groundbreaking contributions to organic chemistry. 
          
- The Adolf von Baeyer Medal is awarded by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) in odd-numbered years.
          
- Information on the Adolf von Baeyer Medal from the website of the German Chemical Society
          
        
        
        
          October 2023
        
        
          Invited Lectures
        
        
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            11. Jan. 2023 Dechema, Frankfurt
          
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            21. Sept. 2021 ESOR Amsterdam 
          
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            29.-30. Nov. 2021 Photopharmacology, New York 
          
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            17. Jan. 2022 Dechema 
          
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            21.-22. 2022 Fachtagung Kampfmittelbeseitigung, Bad Kissingen
          
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            02.-04. May 2022 Seniorenexperten der Chemie, Wernigerode 
          
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            03.-08. July 2022 ISNA (International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds), Warsaw 
          
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            06.-07. July 2022 International Conference on Molecular Magnetism, Rennes 
          
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            11.-16. July 2022 Telluride Conference on Molecular Rotors, Motors and Switches 
          
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            11.-14. Sept. 2022 Mach-5: Molecular Machinery: Making Measuring, Modeling 
          
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            19.-21. Sept. 2022 Workshop on Nanoscale Phenomena at Surfaces, Aschberg 
          
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            09. Jan. 2023 Dechema, Frankfurt 
          
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            16. March 2023 Wirtschaftskonferenz des Internationalen Wissenschaftssenats 
          
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            08.-13. Mai 2023 Fusion Conference, From Carbon Rich Molecules to Carbon-Based Materials, Tulum Mexico 
          
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            18.-23. June 2023 Gordon Conference, Molecular Motors, Rotors and Switches, New London NH 
          
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            19.-21. July 2023 Curo-pi, Curved Organic pi-Molecules and Materials, Prague 
          
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            17.-19. Sept. 2023 Solvation Chemistry and Reactive Molecules, Bad Honnef 
          
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            01.-04. Nov. 2023 Molecular Rotor Workshop, Prague 
          
        
        
        
          September 2018
        
        
          Rudolf Gompper Memorial Lecture Awarded To Prof. Herges in 2019
        
        
          Prof. Dr. Rainer Herges held the Rudolf-Gompper-Memorial-Lecture at the conference "Conjugated Oligomers And Polymers - New Horizons in Functional π-Systems" at Bad Honnef, Germany in May 2019.
        
        
        
        
        
        
          August 2018
        
        
          Nozoe Lecture Awarded To Prof. Herges in 2019
        
        
          Prof. Dr. Rainer Herges held  the Nozoe Lecture at the International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-18) at Sapporo, Japan in July 2019.