How does a regular day at the Ruhr-University-Bochum look like for a professor in solvation science? Twitter users could follow RESOLV scientist Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner step by step during last 11. April. On that day, Gessner took over the RUB account to provide insights one her work, while the RESOLV account retweeted in English most of the content published by her. From the moment when she brought her children to the local Kindergarten, the chemist started reporting about meetings with fellow scientists (also from RESOLV), research project discussions, laboratory experiments and even birthday celebrations. The ERC Starting-Grant awardee took also plenty of time to tweet about her research projects and her focus on solvation science: In terms of content, everything revolves around the efficiency of catalysts and the stabilisation of reactive chemical compounds. Here below a chronological selection of Gessner's day on twitter.
Today, 11.4.2019, RESOLV scientist @ViktoriaGessner takes over the @ruhrunibochum twitter account. Here too we will follow her through a routine day as professor, group leader and #solvation scientist https://t.co/q5toJ7vVKY
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Of course, among the funding bodies for her research there's also RESOLV https://t.co/6CHC8abybS
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Together with C.Merten and C.Morgestern, @ViktoriaGessner investigates if carbenoids, highly reactive reaction intermediates.../1 https://t.co/T06XbT2DcZ
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
...can be stabilized by some specific solvent, in order to develop more widely applicable reagents /2 https://t.co/4xHy2tCgAT
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Of course, her #research is much more exciting: Time for the daily walk through the #laboratory. Here Christopher Schwarz has just synthesised a new chemical compound, which he is now analyzing in solution. #solvation #RealTimeChem https://t.co/vNH5n9Jrd4
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Since the compounds are often very reactive with air, in the @ViktoriaGessner group they handle them in a so-called glovebox. Alexander Kroll shows how this works in a short video #RealTimeChem https://t.co/ijcuLJaEvH
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Then coffee and cake accompany a birthday celebration in the @ViktoriaGessner group #RealTimeChem https://t.co/JOOF8ODcLE
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Back to #solvation science: In another research project @ViktoriaGessner develops #catalysts for fine chemical synthesis. Recently, she presented highly active catalysts. If everything continues to go well, they will soon be available all over the world. @ERC_Research https://t.co/pnoJsbn3jP
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
Together with RESOLV scientist Lukas Gooßen, they further optimize the #catalysts within RESOLV. Want to know more about this? Here: https://t.co/cMGsp63XSf https://t.co/pgyZ1cgNmj
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019
So @ViktoriaGessner day at the @ruhrunibochum ends where it all began, at the uni day care, picking up her children. And meeting fellow RESOLV colleagues Kristina Tschulik @TschulikGroup and @clara_saraceno #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/mSIXpQZ4oz
— Solvation Science (@SolvationSci) April 11, 2019