From May 27-29, 2019, the annual meeting of reaction technology organized by Dechema took place at Marienberg Castle in Würzburg.

The 13th International Conference on “Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering” was held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from April 15-18, 2019. This year's conference focused on reaction engineering for macromolecules and the design of complex polymer structures and their analysis.

The annual meeting of the ProcessNet specialist groups Adsorption and High Pressure Process Engineering took place in Freiberg from 18-20 February. The annual meeting brings together the high pressure society from the German speaking countries.

On February 4, 2019, Thomas Becker successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Investigation of the Copolymerisation of Ethylene and 1,7-Octadienes under High-Pressure Conditions”.

On 19.12.2018 the graduates of the Department of Chemistry officially received their diplomas.

On 6 December 2018 the annual Santa Claus Coffee of the working group of Prof. Busch took place.

On 3 December 2018 the Christmas party of Professor Busch's research group took place.

On November 26, 2018, Nune Sargsyan successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “RAFT – Polymerization of styrene in different types of reactors”.

In October 2018 the 68th Canadian Reaction Engineering Conference was held in Toronto.

On September 22, the nationwide Open Day of Chemistry took place. In Darmstadt, Evonik and Merck as well as the Department of Chemistry of the TU Darmstadt invited guests. In the course of the event, Prof. Busch's research group presented the laboratories and everyday tasks in the field of high-pressure polymerization technology to numerous visitors.