IRTG 1143 - Complex Functional Systems in Chemistry - Design Development and Applications

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Chemistry has arrived at a stage where the active interplay of its subdisciplines will allow to design and control systems of increasing complexity that is directly associated with their specific molecular function. A key to success in this modern chemical development is to use and apply the whole range of possible intermolecular interactions to create complex functional systems and/or control their action with substrate molecules or reagents. A group of each nine research teams from Nagoya, Japan, and Münster, Germany, together comprising state of the art expertise of the most important areas of intermolecular interactions, will join forces in this International Research Training Group to understand, develop, and apply Complex Functional Systems in catalysis, bio-related and materials chemistry. The pivot of the educational program is the students' learning about and applying of intermolecular interactions from an utmost broad range of areas and perspectives of modern chemistry. Each doctoral student will have a German and a Japanese advisor, who are equally responsible for mentoring the progress of the dissertation. The German students must be willing to work for at least 6 months time on their joint project in the laboratory of the scientific partner group in Nagoya. We expect that both the participating Japanese and German doctoral students will gain an essential advantage over their conventionally educated peers from their extensive international experience by carrying out their doctoral work and receiving their scientific post-graduate education equally balanced at top scientific institutions in Japan and Germany. With a rapidly increasing global orientation of the chemical and chemistry related industries it will be a great advantage for young German scientists to have gained substantial practical experience before the postdoctoral level by doing a significant part of their early scientific work at a top university in Asia and vice versa for the Japanese doctoral students in Germany.