"Evidence of our international visibility"

Prof. Michinori Suginome from the University of Kyoto in Japan and a leading expert in the field of catalyst research will be a regular guest at Münster University in the coming three years. The research stays - altogether amounting to six months - are being made possible by the prestigious research prize awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Michinori Suginome will be receiving the prize on Friday 18 March at a symposium being held by the Foundation in Bamberg. The host is Armido Studer from the Institute of Organic Chemistry. "It is an honour for our entire Institute that a Humboldt Research Prizewinner has chosen us," he says. "It is evidence that with the research we do, people take note of us internationally." Michinori Suginome is seen as a pioneer in the field of the development of special catalysts, Catalysts is the name given to enzymes or other molecules which speed up individual reactions or even make them at all possible. His special catalysts have an influence on the so-called chirality of the molecules produced by the reaction.