Plenary speakers

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Pr. Christel LABERTY-ROBERT, Sorbonne University, Paris

Title: Proton insertion vs. HER : Role of light?

Christel Laberty-Robert received a Ph. D. degree from the University of Toulouse (France) in 1996 after work with  P. Alphonse. Following postdoctoral stays at University of California at Davis and Princeton University (USA) with A. Navrotsky in 1998-1999, she became assistant professor (1999), the associalte professor (2003) at CIRIMAT, University of Toulouse. In 2008, she moved to Sorbonne University, Paris (France) and was promoted to full professor in 2010. She is also adjunct-professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH,Japan) since 2018. 

Energy storage • Conversion • Hybrid organic inorganic materials • Inorganic materials

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Pr. Oliver WENGER, University of Basel

Title : Emergent photophysics and photochemistry of first-row transition metal complexes

Oliver S. Wenger received a Ph. D. degree from the University of Berne (Switzerland) in 2002 after work with Hans U. Güdel. Following postdoctoral stays at Caltech (with Harry B. Gray, 2002-2004) and University of Strasbourg (with Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 2004-2006), he became assistant professor at University of Geneva in 2006. In 2009, he moved to the University of Göttingen (Germany) as associate professor. He returned to Switzerland in 2012 to the University of Basel, where he was promoted to full professor in 2018.

Luminescence • Photocatalysis • Electron transfer • Energy transfer • Upconversion

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Pr Kevin SIVULA, EPFL (Lausanne)

Titre: Organic Semiconductors for Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Water Splitting

Kevin Sivula received a Ph. D. degree from the (University of California, Berkeley, USA) in 2007 after work with J-M-J Fréchet. Following postdoctoral stay at EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) with M. Graetzel (2007-2008), he became group leader at EPFL in 2008 and then assistant professor at EPFL in 2011. Since 2018 he is Associate Professor of chemical engineering at EPFL and Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials (LIMNO)

Solar Energy • Photocatalysis • Water splitting • Hydrogen fuel cells 

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Prof. Dr Moritz F. Kühnel, University of Hohenheim

Title: The Oxygen dilemma in solar fuel generation

Moritz Kühnel received a Ph. D. degree from Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Dieter Lentz in 2011. Following postdoctoral stay at the Erwin Reisner’s lab in Cambridge (2015-2017), he became lecturer at the Swansea University in 2018 and then senior lecturer in 2023. Since 2024 he is professor of inorganic chemisytry and Managing Director of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hohenheim.

Solar Energy • Photocatalysis •  CO2 reduction • Hydrogen production 

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