Broad-based contents; very good staff-student ratio; Technical and macromolecular and solid state chemistry in the core curriculum, synthesis and biological evaluation of natural products, material science or biochemically/biomedically oriented application examples are used throughout the modules.

The teacher-student ratio is very good and there are always innovative teaching formats.

Doctoral studies as part of binationally supervised doctorates (Cotutelle). Very good international network at the research group level.

Outstanding equipment with various state-of-the-art research devices, which are usually accessible to students in the practicals. Examples: NMR, MS (GC, ESI, HPLC coupling), GPC, DSC methods, MALDI and ESI-TOF MS, CD ORD, electrical optics, laser and fluorescence spectroscopy, SEM, NMR, ESR, MS, etc. Low-temperature magnetometer.

Strong research focuses in the fields of Hard Matter (oxidic materials, materials for photovoltaics/energy conversion, catalysis) and Soft Matter (polymers, fuel cell components, proteins, membranes, small molecules in solution); Study of historical and prehistoric textiles; Complex structure formation in self-assembling systems; Spontaneous symmetry break in fluids; Self-healing materials; Secondary natural materials made of extremophile organisms.

Teaching in the Bachelor's degree programme in Chemistry introduces students to research work in the working groups at a very early stage.