Our Research
The Mayer lab is a junior group established at TUM in 2024, and an independent professorship since December 2025. Our research is conducted at the interface of physical organic chemistry and catalysis research. By obtaining deep mechanistic insights into the investigated chemistries through the synergy of (high-throughput) experimentation, computations, and data science, we aim to uncover general principles that contribute to our understanding of complex catalytic processes in organic chemistry, or processes central to Life.
News
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Moving to the Catalysis Research Center (CRC)
The beginning of January marked a further milestone for our team: we moved to our own labs at the Catalysis Research Center (CRC) at TUM. At the CRC, we have now combined both our instrumentation… Read more
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2025 Recap
2025 marked the second year of the Mayer Lab at TUM. With the generous support of the Boekhoven team in hosting us, the lab has continued to grow steadily while exploring the synergy of automation,… Read more
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Robert is now a Professor at TUM
On 01.12.2025, Robert was appointed as W2 Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Physical-Organic Chemistry of Catalysis at the Department of Chemistry at the TUM School of Natural Sciences. This marks a few changes to… Read more
Mayer lab at Technische Universität München 