News and Press releases
- How methane and CO₂ can help tackle plastic pollutionCountry Overshoot Day marks the date each year when a country would have exhausted its annual biocapacity budget — if everyone in the world lived like its population. In Germany, that date in 2025 falls as early as 5 May — more than three months earlier than in the previous year. At the reseach group…
- New managing director at the b-ACT matter Research and Transfer CentreIn November 2024, Franziska Ullm took over as managing director of the b-ACT matter Research and Transfer Centre for Bioactive Matter, succeeding Dr. Susanne Ebitsch, who left Leipzig University in October to join the Centre for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC).
- Project LivMat has startedOn 1 July 2024 we started our new m-ERA.net project “LivMat: Productive catalytic living materials: combining 3D biobased fibrillar membranes with synthetic microbial consortia to produce chemicals” together with our partners from Helmholtz-UFZ, Solaga GmbH, Instanbul Technical University, Kaunas University of Technology and University of Latvia.
Events
- Long Night of Science – we participated!On June 20, 2025, numerous Leipzig-based scientific institutions, associations, and companies presented their research at the Long Night of Science in Leipzig. Our BioMat working group was also present at the BIO CITY location and provided interested parties from Leipzig and the surrounding area with exciting insights into our research projects — such as LivMat — and the technological developments of our researchers.
- Bioactive matter – technologies for sustainable production and a healthy environment of the futureWe are currently facing major social challenges. Topics such as resource scarcity, the climate crisis and social and economic injustice are issues of acute relevance. On 24 March 2025, the university research and transfer centre b-ACTmatter held a symposium on these key issues. The centre’s interdisciplinary and broad-based scientific team cooperates with regional and international partners to develop innovative solutions and successfully establish them on the market.
- Science communication: Research presented in an entertaining wayBringing science to the public and communicating research content and arguments in an appealing way is an important qualification for scientists. Selina Hanisch, a doctoral student in the BioMat working group at b-ACTmatter, presented her research work to the public in an entertaining way at two events in autumn.