More than 85 percent of all industrial products come into contact with a catalyst in the course of production. Catalysis rese ... arch is thus not only considered one of the most important research areas in chemistry and biology, but is also a major driver in "green chemistry". The latter focuses on sustainability and resource conservation. This is where we start with our innovative research. The central scientific objective of UniSysCat is to master the deciphering, generation and control of reaction networks in chemical and biological catalysis with varying degrees of complexity in time and space as the next stage of future challenges in catalysis. The systems targeted by UniSysCat include different types of coupled catalytic and non-catalytic processes whose correlation in space and time is essential for the operation and control of the overall system. The research consortium includes the Technische Universität Berlin as spokesperson, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the University of Potsdam, the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society, the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology. read more