Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences

Founded in 1850

Institutes 11


Professorships 52

Students 1,500

Study programs 6

Further information can be found here.



Important personality

Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, Professor of Natural History and Director of the Palace Gardens in Karlsruhe, is regarded as the founder of flower ecology and the discoverer of insect pollination and described the genetic basis of heredity before Mendel.

Collaborative projects of the faculty


TrackAct - CRC 1441 Tracking of active centers in catalysis.



POLiS Cluster of Excellence Post-Lithium Energy Storage.



Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics International Graduate School.

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DFG Research Unit FOR 5682

"MadFungi" Mechanisms of adaptation to the host niche in plant-colonizing fungi.


Helmholtz Program Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing (NACIP) Research into biological information processes for next-generation computer systems.

4f for Future (CRC 1573 / SFB 1573) Molecular and nanoscale rare earth compounds.


3D Matter Made to Order Cluster of Excellence KIT & Heidelberg University.

Chemistry in Karlsruhe

Foundation of the "Polytechnic School" in Karlsruhe in 1825

Chemical laboratory at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1840

Karl WeltzienProfessor of chemistry in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe Congress

The Karlsruhe Congress - the first international meeting of modern chemistry and the "birth" of the periodic table of elements, on September 3-5, 1860, on the initiative of Kekulé, Wurtz and Weltzien. The congress is regarded as the most important event in the history of chemistry in the 19th century.

Periodic table according to Lothar Meyer

Lothar Meyer,
Weltzien's successor