From 1st January 2025, the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry and the Department of Organic Chemistry will merge their strengths to form a new department – Department of Chemistry. Niklas Hedin will become the head of the department, and Belen Martín-Matute will serve as vice head.
For 50 years, outstanding research and teaching has taken place in the Arrhenius Laboratory. It is named after the first ever Swedish Nobel laurate, Svante Arrhenius, professor of physics at Stockholms högskola (now Stockholm University). This was properly celebrated on Friday November 10th!