Lars Mohrhusen receives the Award for Excellence in Teaching 2024/2025 of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

12. November 2025
Oldenburg, Germany

Dr. Lars Mohrhusen, head of the Su₂nCat-CO₂ junior research group, received the 2024/2025 Award for Excellence in Teaching from Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg for his for his lecture “solid-gas interfaces in theory and application” within the Master of Science program at the Institute of Chemistry. With this teaching award, the university recognises outstanding university teaching and contributes to the discussion of teaching and learning processes at the university.

In the 2024/25 academic year, the prize was awarded per faculty for the best courses that scored particularly well in the course evaluation. In all courses, students praised the practical relevance, good organisation, pleasant learning atmosphere and the opportunity to engage in discussions and ask individual questions.

The study coordinator at the Institute of Chemistry at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg praised Lars with the following words: ‘It is only right that Lars has received this award. His evaluation results are unique. The comments from the student body about his teaching, his commitment and his professional yet understanding attitude underline this! Congratulations!’

In his award-winning lecture, Dr Lars Mohrhusen discussed technologies that can be used to investigate interactions between solids and gases. During the event, he explained the processes that take place at the interface, the methods that can be used to analyse surfaces at the atomic level, and the limitations of these methods. The investigation of these fundamental aspects is of great importance in areas such as catalysis and sensor technology. He also took the students on a tour of various laboratories on site. “We looked at how state-of-the-art methods are applied in practice and which current research questions they are used to address,” he explains. During the laboratory visits, the students also learned about current research topics being pursued by individual working groups in Oldenburg and were able to make contacts, for example to find a place to do their Master’s thesis. Accordingly, the students praised, for example, “the excellent combination of theoretical principles and current research discourse” and the “application-oriented examples”.