Darwinian Chemistry Autumn School at Lake Starnberg, 13 - 17 October, 2025

Parmenides Foundation will host the DarChemDN Autumn School 2025, which is now open for registration!

The DarChemDN Autumn School is a multi-day in-person conference held in the Greater Munich Area (Germany) from October 13 – 17, 2025, on Chemistry and Darwinian Evolution. The event brings together experts, leading researchers, early-career scientists in the fields of systems chemistry, synthetic biology, and the origins of life. 

Organised by the DarChemDN partners (Prof. Eörs Szathmary and Prof. Sijbren Otto), the school provides a unique platform for interdisciplinary learning, exchange of ideas, and networking through lectures, discussions, and social activities in a collaborative setting. Participants benefit from direct interactions with prominent international experts and peers, fostering scientific inspiration and potential research collaborations.

More information is available on the event page.

Dates: The Autumn School will take place from October 13 (arrival in the evening) – October 17, 12:00, 2025. 

Location: The event will be held at Hotel Seeblick (Greater Munich Area, Germany).

Organisers: Prof. Eörs Szathmary​ (Parmenides Foundation) and Prof. Sijbren Otto (University of Groningen).

Speakers:

Albrecht von Müller (Parmenides Foundation)

Anatole Geffrault (Microfluidics Innovation Center)

Andrew Griffiths (ESPCI Paris)

Dora Tang (University of Saarland)

Eörs Szathmáry (Parmenides Foundation)

Gonen Ashkenasy (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Ivan Huc (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Job Boekhoven (Technical University of Munich)

Mauro Santos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Moran Frenkel-Pinter (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Oliver Trapp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Peter Walde (ETH Zürich)

Philipp Honegger (Harvard Medical School)

Sijbren Otto (University of Groningen)

Stephen Mann (University of Bristol)

Syuzanna Harutyunyan (University of Groningen)