The 12th PhD-Student Workshop of the EFCE Working Party on Polymer Reaction Engineering (WPPRE) took place from October 30 to 31, 2024 at the École Supérieure Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE Lyon). The WPPRE provides a framework for young scientists in the field of polymer reaction engineering to exchange ideas with each other and to establish contacts in industry.

The sixth Hangzhou International Polymer Forum (HIPF 2024) took place in Hangzhou, China, from September 20 to 23, 2024.

On 12 and 13 September Professor Busch and Svenja Albus were invited to visit the company United Initiators in Pullach.

The 27th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering – CHISA 2024 – took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 25-29, 2024.

At the ASME PVP (Pressure Vessels & Piping) Conference, Aaron Röblitz was decorated with the „PVPD Conference Award“ for the outstanding technical paper „Visualization of the Decomposition and Relief Process in High-Pressure Systems“ presented on ASME PVP 2023.

This year's ChemCup, the soccer tournament of the chemistry department, took place in the university’s stadium (Hochschulstadion) on July 30. This time, a total of ten teams were put together by the different research groups of the department.

Professor Busch, Aaron Röblitz and Christoph Weigel traveled to the ASME PVP (Pressure Vessels & Piping) conference in Bellevue (Washington, USA) this year to present current research from the working group in two lectures.

On July 26, an excursion to the BASF Verbund site in Ludwigshafen took place as part of the TC1 lecture led by Dr. Kristina Zentel.

This year, six PhD students from the working group Busch participated in the ESS-HPT („The European Summer School in High Pressure Technology“) 2024, which took place from July 7 to 20 in Graz, Austria.