Our summer school is entering its next round. And it's doing so with a new look, or rather a new name: International School 2026
We look forward to receiving interesting applications and are already looking forward to an exciting week with everyone in Mülheim at the end of September!

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! Apply here

Our school combines a series of lectures with practical computational sessions and laboratory visits. The lectures address a broad range of topics related to spectroscopy and computational chemistry. The practical sessions focus both on fundamental pen-and-paper problems and on the use of computational tools for spectroscopic simulations and for quantum chemical calculations. Significant emphasis will be placed on the use of the ORCA package for quantum chemical calculations of spectroscopic properties. Small groups of students will also be able to visit the spectroscopy laboratories of the participating Max Planck Institutes.

Who is this school for?

The school combines teaching at an advanced level on spectroscopic methods of relevance to molecular transition metal complexes, with instruction on how to employ ORCA as the quantum chemical software to compute relevant spectroscopic parameters from first principles. The candidates must be interested in both aspects and in their combination. This point should come across clearly from the motivation letter (see below). 
Candidates who are primarily interested only in spectroscopy or only in quantum chemistry will be better served by other workshops that focus on each one of these aspects separately. Note that the school deals exclusively with molecular chemistry. Materials science and heterogeneous systems are not addressed.

Find out more on the Internationl School Website.