Welcome

This conference series was originally initiated in Berlin, where a long-standing tradition of research on complexity and self-organization in various fields of science exists. Cooperation between both parts of the city started already before the fall of the Wall, eventually leading to the establishment of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 555 with Werner Ebeling as its chairman. In 2000 the first symposium "Engineering of Chemical Complexity" took place with about 50 participants. Its success prompted continuation every two years until 2008. After the SFB 555 program ended, a new organizational framework for the ongoing activities was created by the foundation of the Berlin Center for Studies of Complex Chemical Systems. From 2011 onwards, the "Engineering of Chemical Complexity" conference grew considerably in size and moved to Warnemünde, Munich, Barcelona, and Potsdam. After a break of several years, we will now resume this series of meetings and announce the next "Engineering of Chemical Complexity" conference to be held in 2025 at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Here, one of the world-leading scientific communities in this field of research is located, with many close and long-standing ties to the Berlin scientific landscape. We are very grateful for all the work and effort of our Japanese colleagues and we are very much looking forward to the first Asian edition of this conference, with many interesting and stimulating presentations and discussions.