Heilbronner-Hückel Lecture Series

The Heilbronner-Hückel Lecture Series was implemented in 2009 with the first series in 2010 together with the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh). The annual series take place alternatively in Switzerland and Germany.

The series is named after the chemists Edgar Heilbronner, born in Munich in 1921 and passed away in Herrliberg in 2006, and Erich Hückel, born in Berlin 1896 and died in Marburg in 1980.

Edgar Heilbronner emigrated together with his wife to Switzerland because of the Nazi regimes and studied chemistry in Zurich at the ETH where he also habilitated later on. In 1968 he changed to University of Basel.
Erich Hückel studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen and habilitated at ETH Zurich as well. 

2026 Tour of Prof. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

• Mon, October 5, 2026, 17.00h, EPFL, co-organized with University of Geneva
  Lecture hall tbd: EPFL Lausanne, 
  «The Secret Life of CO2 Electroreduction Catalysts unveiled by Operando Spectroscopy and Microscopy»

• Tue, October 6, 2026, 16.00h, ETH Zurich, co-organizerd with University of Zurich
  Lecture hall HCI G7, ETH Zurich, D-CHAB, Vladimir Prelog Weg, 8093 Zurich
  «Catalysts: More Alive than Previously Thought»

• Wed, October 7, 2026, 16.30h, University of Basel
  Lecture Hall U1.402, University of Basel, Universitäres Zentrum für Zahnmedizin Basel (UZB), Mattenstrasse 40, 4058 Basel
  «The Power of Imperfections: A New Paradigm in Catalysis»

• Thu, October 8, 2026, 14.15h, University of Bern, co-organized with University of Fribourg
  Lecture hall EG16, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern
  «Catalysts: More Alive than Previously Thought»

SCS program manager: Prof. Martin Quack, ETH Zurich