Bunsen-Tagung 2025

Leipzig University and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) are cordially inviting to the Bunsen-Tagung 2025 on „Physical Chemistry of the Climate and the Atmosphere“. Leipzig hosts many groups working on this topic from chemistry to meteorology and earth sciences and has numerous interlinks between the Alma Mater Lipsiensis and the rich non-academic research landscape including a Helmholtz Centre, three Leibniz Institutes, and Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes. Leipzig is happy to host the Bunsen-Tagung again and looks forward to the scientific exchange on physical chemistry in its full breadth and especially the main topic. Germany‘s physical chemistry has long had strong links to investigations of interest for atmospheric processes and the climate as well. Clearly, kinetics and thermodynamics are urgently needed in atmospheric and climate research for process descriptions and, more broadly, the development of better models. Then, more technology-oriented approaches such as the quest for better batteries with its electrochemical research will also contribute to tackle and solve existing problems. All in all, physical chemistry is addressing pressing issues of large societal impact and can thus lay the ground for decisions to be taken as needed.