Program

10:30 – 11:20

11:20 – 12:00

Session 1  (Chair: Henry Dube)

Keynote Lecture: Natalie Stingelin (Georgia Tech, USA)

From the Swiss Mountains to Become Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology: “Following Ones Dreams”

Invited Lecture: Ivana Fleischer (University of Tübingen, DE)

I did it may way – breaking bonds and stereotypes

13:15 – 13:55

13:55 – 14:05

14:05 – 14:35

Session 2  (Chair: Ani Ozcelik)

Invited Lecture: Anne M. Baranger (UC Berkeley, USA)

Thriving in the College of Chemistry: Assessing and Improving Academic Culture

Nath Mala (Indian Institute of Technology Roorke, IN)

Nanocomposites, Ag/Mn₂O₃, As Efficient Heterogenous Catalyst For Reduction Of Nitrophenols: Potential Wastewater Treatment

Invited Lecture: Ingrid Span (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Hydrogenases Made Crystal Clear

16:05 – 16:45

16:45 – 16:55

16:55 – 17:25

Seizing the Horizon: Empowering Women to Navigate and Triumph in Their Career Voyage

Hemlata Argawala (Technical University of Munich, DE)

Photochemical CO₂ reduction to HCOOH by an organocobalt catalyst – Two different mechanisms with temporal evolution of catalysis, effectuated by second coordination sphere interactions

Invited Lecture: Carolin Müller (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Excited-State Odyssey: Charting Maps with Data-Driven Strategies

Students Dinner

09:00 – 09:50

09:50 – 10:30

Session 4  (Chair: Eugenia Pérez-Ojeda)
Keynote Lecture: Patricia Hunt (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)

Exploring a Non-Polar Cope Rearrangement in (Polar) Ionic Liquids

 Invited Lecture: Anelis Kaiser Trujillo (University of Freiburg, DE)

Sex/Gender in the Brain and Diversity in Neuroscience

11:00 – 11:40

11:40 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:20

Session 5 (Chair: Alejandro Cadranel)

Invited Lecture: Magalí Lingenfelder (EPFL, CH; Ikerbasque, ES)

From Tracking Atoms to Harnessing Electron Spin: Pioneering Pathways to Green Energy

Lilli Reißenweber (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Directionality Reversal and Shift of Rotational Axis in a Hemithioindigo Macrocyclic Molecular Motor

Invited Lecture: Susanne Wintzheimer (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Supraparticles: Material design via nanoparticle assembly

13:35 – 14:15

14:15 – 14.25

14:25 – 15:05

Session 6 (Chair: Peter Hommelhoff)

Invited Lecture: Yu Jing ( Nanjing Forestry University, CN)

Rational Design of Two-Dimensional Organic Frameworks for Energy Conversion

Inga Block (University of Potsdam, DE)

Removal of organic contaminants from aqueous systems via adsorption onto spent coffee biochars

Invited Lecture: Katherine Geogheghan (Springer Nature, UK)

Thinking outside the lab

Discussion Leaders: Julien Bachman  (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE), Ana Suncana-Smith (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

16:35 – 17:15

17:15 – 17:25

17:25 – 17:35

Session 7  (Chair: Dirk Guldi)

Invited Lecture: Claudia Backes (University of Kassel, DE)

Making nanomaterial inks from insoluble rocks- a personal journey

Ashley Shin (Max Planck Insitute for Science of Light, DE)

Ytterbium complexes with ultra-narrow absorption as atom-like molecular sensors

Anika Höppel (University Hospital Würzburg, DE)

Synthesis and characterization of magnesium phosphate supraparticles as coating components for bone implants

09:00 – 09:50

09:50 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:40

Keynote Lecture: María Dolores Pérez Meirás (CIQUS-USC, ES)

Crafting nanographenes and nonconventional carbon nanostructures with an aryne-based “molecular Lego”

María Lago Silva (CIQUS-USC, ES)

Mechanically Interlocked Macromolecular Gears: Modulating Chiral Polymeric Helices with Rotaxane Pendant Groups

Invited Lecture: Ute Resch-Genger (BAM, DE)

A Journey in Science – From a Graduate Student in Physical Chemistry to Head of Division Biophotonics

11:00 – 11:40

11:40 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:00

12:00 – 12:30

Invited Lecture: Sofia Dembski (Fraunhofer ISC-Würzburg, DE)

Gut Feeling and Intuition – My Personal Journey from Dentistry to Biomaterials

Anna Zieleniwska (Technical University of Munich, DE)

Balancing Act: The Dual Role of Heat Generation in Protein-Based Materials

Hanfeng Zou (University of Dresden, DE)

Ions Selectively Intrigued Ionologic Devices for Logic Operation

Invited Lecture: Dagmar Fischer (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)

Sustainability and green concepts in pharmaceutical nanoformulations

Graduate School EAM Get-Together  (register online in advance)