Broad education with a high proportion of practical experience; individual supervision, diverse advisory and support services; wide range of elective modules, supplementary study skills and soft skills offers; possibility of a professional internship; good integration of teaching with neighbouring disciplines; possibility of direct transition to a doctoral programme (PreProChem); ultra-modern new laboratories and teaching facilities (new building from 2015); strongly interdisciplinary teaching; excellent industry contacts; excellent teaching staff (e.g. ars legendi award); teaching concepts accompanied by didactics.

Numerous international exchange programmes (including outside of the ERASMUS area), mobility window, double degree programme with Osakay University and Kansai University and the University of Padua, courses held in English, involvement of international partners in teaching and research (including mercator fellow), faculty and staff mobility (incomimg and outgoing), Liebig-Kolleg for international bachelor graduates (undergraduate summer school), international Giessen Graduate Center for Life Sciences.

Equipment platforms in the "Centre for materials science": Electrochemistry lab, micro/nanostructure lab, large-scale equipment: 2 Orbitrap-MS (Q Exactive, LTQ FT Ultra), time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer; ESCA system for surface analysis; electron microscope (EDX/EBSD); FT-IR system/Raman microscope; pore analysis system (Hg porosimetry and physisorption); OC equipment centre, among others.a. 5 NMR spectrometers, IR, UV, MS, HPLC and GC; matrix laboratory; 2 single crystal diffractometers; 2 powder diffractometers; STA (thermal analysis); MALDI-imaging; GC-MS/MS-O (olfactometry detector); camera with eye tracker.

Cooperation via TransMIT possible.

The Department of Chemistry at Justus-Liebig-Universität has one of the longest traditions of training chemists. Its successful history started with Justus von Liebig, one of the most renowned chemists. Today the Gießen Chemistry department offers a very comprehensive teaching programme with three Chemistry-related Bachelor's and Master's courses (Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Materials Science) and a diverse range of teacher training courses. Close collaboration with other Natural Science subjects and Medicine creates numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary specialisation.