The research is conducted in close collaboration between physics and chemistry groups. The interdisciplinary approach offers training opportunities for chemists, physicists and engineers. Thus, chemists as well as physicists and engineers are able to make a significant contribution and have adequate advice from senior researchers. The students learn to collaborate with scientists with a different background. In addition they are encouraged to learn the necessary synthetic procedures and characterisation techniques from their counterparts and to perform themselves experiments which usually are not part of the classical training in their field.
Teaching goes far beyond the usual PhD-training.
Senior scientists from the University of Ulm lecture on selected topics that are related to their field of expertise. The lectures are explicitly tailored to an inter-disciplinary audience. Short courses on selected topics These courses focus on modern scien-tific topics and on fields of humanities that are of interest for a general scientific audience. The evaluation comitee usually meets three times per semester to decide on the applications.