Program

10.00	Registration & coffee
10.30	Session 1 - Chair: Eric Vauthey
	Prof. Stephen Meech, University of East Anglia, UK «Transient Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Mechanism in Photomolecular Motors»
11.00	Alexander Aster, University of Geneva «Tuning symmetry breaking charge separation of perylene bichromophores by conformational control»
11.15	Rebecca Ingle, EPFL Lausanne «From Spin-Orbit Coupling to Coherences: Shedding Light on the Intricate Photodynamics of [Pt(ppy)(µ-tBu₂pz)]₂»
11.30	Stephanie Remke, Eawag Dübendorf «The role of “long-lived” photooxidants in the transformation of aquatic organic contaminants photosensitized by dissolved organic matter»
11.45	Svenja Neumann, University of Basel «A highly energetic charge-separated state and factors governing its light-induced formation and decay»
12.00	Lunch
13.00	PCS General Assembly
13.30	Session 2 - Chair Silvio Canonica
	Prof. Natalie Banerji, University of Bern, Switzerland «Charge generation and transport in organic solar cells»
14.00	Nestor Guijarro Carratala, EPFL Lausanne «Monitoring the Interfacial Electronic Dynamics at the Semiconductor–Liquid Junction: a New Route to Interrogate Photoelectrosynthetic Reactions»
14.15	Andrea Pannwitz, Leiden Institute of Science, NL «Creating an Artificial Photosystem in Phospholipid Bilayers»
14.30	Poster session & coffee
15.45	Session 3 - Chair: Alexandre Fürstenberg
	Prof. Katja Heinze, University of Mainz, Germany «Near-Infrared Emission with Earth-Abundant Metal Ions»
16.15	Maria Teresa Delgado Pérez, University of Geneva «Spectroscopic studies of the persistent phosphor SrAl₂O₄:Eu²⁺:Dy³⁺»
16.30	Christian Reber, Université de Montréal, CA «Luminescence properties of square-planar d8 complexes: electronic structure and intermolecular interactions at variable pressure»
16.45	Bahman Golesorkhi, University of Geneva «Single-Site Linear Light Upconversion at the Molecular Level»
17.00	Poster award ceremony and closing remark