🔬 Stratingh Institute for Chemistry

The Stratingh Institute for Chemistry is a research institute of the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen. It is named after Sibrandus Stratingh, who is known for being the inventor of the first battery powered electric car. As of 2020, about 150 people are employed within the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry. The staff members include Ben Feringa, who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines", Nathalie Katsonis and Sijbren Otto. The institute is currently located on the Zernike Campus in Groningen, in the Feringa Building and Linnaeusborg.