Conference Co-Chairs
Prof. Stefan Hecht, PhD
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, GERMANY
Since 2006 he has been holding the Chair of Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials at the Department of Chemistry of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is a member of IRIS Adlershof. After his graduate studies in chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley he rose through the ranks at Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research at Mülheim/Ruhr before returning to his alma mater. He has received the ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (2010), the ADUC Young Investigator Award of the German Chemical Society (2005), and MIT’s Technology Review Top 100 Young Innovator Award (2004).
Prof. Dr. Norbert Koch
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN & HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM BERLIN, GERMANY
Since 2009, the physicist Norbert Koch has been Professor of Structure, Dynamics and Electronic Properties of Molecular Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Previously, he conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University and has since 2003 been a researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He headed the Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group »Supramolecular Systems« at the Department of Physics. In 2008, he received the Karl Scheel Award from the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (Berlin Physical Society). He is Joint Group Leader at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie and the deputy director of IRIS Adlershof.
International Advisory Committee
| Zhenan Bao | Stanford University, USA |
| Paul Blom | Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany |
| Peter Bäuerle | Ulm University, Germany |
| Jean-Luc Brédas | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| Lin X Chen | Northwestern University, USA |
| Maxwell Crossley | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Yong Cao | South China University of Technology, China |
| Luisa de Cola | University of Strasbourg, France |
| Georges Hadziioannou | University of Bordeaux, France |
| Emil List-Kratochvil | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| Christine Luscombe | University of Washington, USA |
| George Malliaras | Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France |
| Seth Marder | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Tobin Marks | Northwestern University, USA |
| Klaus Müllen | Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany |
| Thuc-Quyen Nguyen | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| John Reynolds | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Ulrich Scherf | University of Wuppertal, Germany |
| Yasuhiko Shirota | University of Osaka, Japan |
| Zhigang Shuai | Tsinghua University, China |
| Zen-ichi Yoshida | Kinki University, Japan |
| Xi Zhang | Tsinghua University, China |
| Deqing Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| Daoben Zhu | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |