SCS Photochemistry Symposium 2020 (online)

This half-day symposium is an initiative of the Photochemistry Section of the Swiss Chemical Society to promote the exchange within the photochemistry community in Switzerland and beyond. 
Due to COVID-19 the event will take place as online conference.

 Confirmed Speakers:

• Prof. Peter Vöhringer, University of Bonn, Germany (website), «Photochemical dynamics of transition metal complexes from time-resolved infrared-to-visible spectroscopies»
• Sara Cembellín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, «Metal Free and Visible Light Promoted Synthesis of Isothiazoles»
• Yinyin Bao, ETH Zurich, «Tuning Molecular Fluorescence via Polymerization-Mediated Charge Transfer»
• Prof. Kristopher McNeill, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (website), «Studying Aquatic Photochemistry with Laser Spectroscopy and Molecular Probes»
• Prof. Luisa De Cola, Université de Strasbourg, France (website), «Molecular interactions to switch on the emission of metal complexes»
• Paul Elliott, University of Huddersfield, «Unravelling the mechanism of excited state interligand energy transfer and the engineering of dual-emission in [Ir(C^N)₂(N^N)]⁺ complexes»
• Bogdan Dereka, The University of Chicago, «Solvent Tuning of Photochemistry upon Excited-State Symmetry Breaking»

10 Elevator Talks (replace the traditional poster session)

• Hsin-Hua Huang, University of Basel, «Delayed Fluorescence in a Chiral Perylene-3,4,9,10-bis(dicarboximide) Organic Cage»
• Claudia Bizzarri, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, «Earth-abundant Photosensitizers and Light-harvesting Antennaes»
• Sergio Adan-Bermudez, University of Edinburgh, «Two-photon photosensitization and detection of singlet oxygen within single-ring photonic crystal fibres»
• João Avó, University of Lisbon, «Nanomaterials with thermally-activated delayed fluorescence for live-cell imaging»
• Steffy Becht, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, «Formation of triazole photoswitches on azide modified structures via click reaction»
• Matthias Dorn, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, «A vanadium(III) complex with dual emission in solution»
• Alessa Rolka, University of Regensburg, «Dearomative Cycloadditions Utilizing an Organic Photosensitizer: An Alternative to Iridium Catalysis»
• Christopher Rumble, University of Geneva, «Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Computer Simulations to Re-examine Our Picture of Photoinduced Electron Transfer»
• Atena B. Solea, HEIA-FR Fribourg, «RTP vs TADF in a purely-organic, amphiphilic, water-soluble emitter»
• Bernhard Spingler, University of Zürich, «Platination of photosensitizer used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) improves the phototoxic index»

Contact:

Dr. Olivier Nicolet
HEIA Fribourg
+41 26 429 67 05