The Institute of Inorganic Chemistry was founded in 1960. Bernhard Keppler, head of the institute, was awarded the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry in 1996. In 1998, Herbert Ipser was awarded the second full professorship at the institute for the area of Materials Chemistry.At the end of 2004, the institute was split up into two separate units - the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry with Bernhard Keppler as head of the "Institute of Inorganic Chemistry" and with Herbert Ipser as head of the "Institute of Inorganic Chemistry / Material Chemistry". The research at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry comprises the areas of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Environmental- and Radiochemistry, Synthetical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Bioanalytics and Cell Biology, primarily the development of new tumor therapeutics.
The Institute of Inorganic Chemistry is researching with the Faculty of Environmental Geosciences within the framework of the infrastructure project BIG NANO.
Christian Hartinger has been offered a professorship at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Jessica Gätjens has moved on to a junior-groupleader position (Nachwuchs-Gruppenleiterstelle) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.
Events
The exhibition "150 years Auer von Welsbach", which was originally organized by the institute and displayed at the main building of University, will continue in the Austrian Museum for Social and Economic Affairs, Vogelsanggasse 36, 1050 Vienna until 27.06.2009.
Michael Reithofer received the Award of Excellence by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research which was awarded in a festive ceremony on 24 November 2008
