The Chemistry and Physics institutes at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) will be able to offer students a new teaching curriculum focusing on "oxidic materials" starting in the 2015/2016 winter semester. This is being made possible by a professorship supported by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. Chemistry Professor Angela Möller has accepted the call for this newly created foundation professorship in Mainz. For the technology group SCHOTT, which is based in Mainz and owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, filling this position represents yet another move toward expanding its many years of cooperation with Mainz University that has already accounted for many impulses in the area of materials development. "In the area of oxidic materials, which also includes our specialty glasses and glass-ceramics, the research potential is still far from being fully leveraged," said Dr. Hans-Joachim Konz, the Board member responsible for research at SCHOTT.