| 01/2026 | Prof. Lena Daumann has been awarded with the JCF Best Supervisor award, Mein-Heine-Mensch 2026 |
| 2026 | Prof. Frank Neese: George B. Kistiakowsky Prize Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 2025 | Prof. Lena Daumann: Nominated for HHU Teaching Prize |
| 2025 | Doreen Reuter (PhD student in TP4) was awardet first prize for her talk at ICBIC |
| 04/2025 | Prof. Franc Meyer has been awarded with the Illinois Distinguished Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry |
| 2025 | Prof. Lena Daumann received the Diversity Award of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
| 10/2025 | Prof. Peter Comba: Wiederbestellung zum Fellow der Max Planck School Matter to Life |
| 2025 | Prof. Peter Comba: Adjunct Professor IIT Bhilai, Indien |
| 2025 | Prof. Peter Comba: Honorary Professor IIT Guwahati, Indien (since 2019) |
| 2025 | Prof. Lena Daumann: Diversity Award der Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf |
| 2025 | Prof. Frank Neese: Nankai University Lectureship on Organic Chemistry |
| 2024 | Prof. Peter Comba: Wahl ins Academic Advisory Counsil (AAC) der Universität Heidelberg |
| 2024 | Prof. Frank Neese: ACS National Award for Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society |
| 2024 | Prof. Frank Neese: Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft of the City of Mülheim |
| 04-07/2023 | Isabelle Rüter (PhD student in TP3) is doing a three-month internship at BASF in Ludwigshafen, initiated by CEFIC |
| 02/2023 | Rachel Janßen (PhD student in TP3) and Prof. Lena Daumann have been awarded with the FAIR4Chem Award der NFDI4Chem (Chemistry Consortium in the NFDI (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur - infrastructure for research data management) |
| 01/2023 | Doreen Reuter (PhD student in TP4) has been awarded a Kekule fellowship by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) |
| 01/2023 | Jan Kruse (PhD student in TP3) has been awarded a Kekule fellowship by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) |
| 2023 | Prof. Frank Neese: 33. Egon-Wiberg-Vorlesung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 2023 | Prof. Frank Neese: 3er Annual Akira Suzuki Awards: ICReDD Award; Hokkaido University Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Sapporo, Japan |
| 2023 | Prof. Frank Neese: Almlöf-Gropen Lectureship 2023: University of Oslo and The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway |
| 12/2022 | Doreen Reuter (PhD student in TP4) has been awarded with the Römer-Award for her Master Thesis |
| 10/2022 | Doreen Reuter (PhD student in TP4) has been awarded Doctoral fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 10/2022 | Isabelle Rüter (PhD student in TP3) has been invited to the Academic Session "Chemistry and the Future of Society" in Brussels on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first Solvay Conference |
| 09/2022 | Prof. Franc Meyer has been awarded the GDCh Prize for Inorganic Chemistry 2022 |
| 09/2022 | Isabelle Rüter (PhD student in TP3) has been awarded a CEFIC scholarship of the European Chemical Industry Council |
| 2022 | Prof. Lena Daumann has been awarded the Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lectureship of the UC Berkeley |
| 06/2022 | Isabelle Rüter and Jan Kruse (both PhD students in TP3) attend the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting |
| 2022 | Prof. Frank Neese has been awarded the WATOC 2022 Schrödinger Medal |
| 2022 | Prof. Frank Neese has been elected into the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |