Alexandra Ntoko from Greece joins us for three months for her IAESTE internship. Welcome to Jena and good luck with your project!

Congratulations, Dr. Kumar! Suresh has succesfully defended his PhD thesis in our group. We wish him all the best for his upcoming postdoc in Paris.

A funded position for a new PhD student in our group is now available, starting in April 2026.

The project spans the areas of photocatalysis, organic synthesis and peptide chemistry. It aims to develop novel synthetic methods for site selective chemical modification of peptides and apply these methods in modification of natural products involved in microbial signalling and microbial communication.

The general deadline for applications is January 20, 2026. Afterward, motivated candidates are encouraged to send their application directly to ivan.vilotijevic@uni-jena.de .

For more details, please follow the position description.

We celebrated the remaining days of 2025 with an international evening, including delicious food from different countries, and a round of Secret Santa. We wish everyone a great and successful 2026!

Sebastian has successfully finished his BSc studies in our group and defended his thesis. We wish him all the best for the MSc studies!

Oliver has successfully finished his BSc studies in our group and defended his thesis. We wish him all the best for the MSc studies!

To enjoy the last warm days of summer, our group visited the capitol of Czechia.

Lenard got accepted into the Honours Programme 2025 for research-oriented students at FSU Jena. He will join our group to work on interesting peptide chemistry, and is our fourth student who got selected for this programme. Congrats Lenard!

Oliver Meißner successfully transitioned from HiWi to BSc student! Good luck and have fun with Lewis Base Catalysis!

Sebastian Hartmann successfully transitioned from HiWi to BSc student! Good luck and have fun with Phosphorus Chemistry!

Olena, Igor and Oliver participated in the Jenaer Teamlauf 2025. The Teamlauf is an annual charity event in Jena to support local organizations. A great opportunity to show that you can be sporty in your head and also in your legs!

Congratulations, Dr. Lange! Markus has done an excellent job in our group by publishing multiple papers and training the future generation of young scientists. We wish him all the best for his work as education coordinator at the CTC in Delitzsch.

Niklas Krüper stays in the group for his PhD work. Good luck with your research Niklas!

Niklas has successfully finished his MSc studies in our group and defended his thesis. We wish him all the best for his next steps!

Lucas Gregor is this years recipient of the Examenspreis for chemistry students at FSU Jena. A well-deserved honor for Lucas. Congratulations! You make us proud!

We open the lab doors to everyone curious about science… Nov 22nd from 6 pm till midnight. This year you can engage all the senses: see, smell, hear, touch and even taste the chemistry! More details at www.lndw-jena.de.

One would think that alcohols easily undergo allylation using MBH electrophiles. They don’t! Unless you give them a push with latent pronucleophiles. Read about it in Synlett (via the link on our publications page). Congrats on another publication for Markus and Abdulrahman who equally contributed to this study.

Welcome to the group Oliver! Good luck with your latent pronucleophiles. We hope they behave well in your hands.