Plenary Speakers
Olivier Kahn lecture
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Roberta SESSOLI
University of Florence, Italy Website
Roberta Sessoli is professor at the University of Florence in Italy and a pioneer in the field of single-molecule magnets. Her interests include the investigation of magnetic molecules, hybrid materials for quantum information and the interplay between chirality and magnetism. She has been awarded of several prestigious prizes and grants over the years.
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Stefanie DEHNEN
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany Website
Stefanie Dehnen is Professor of at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Executive Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) there. She is an expert for cluster-based materials, focusing on of compounds with multinary, in particular multimetallic, molecular nanoarchitectures that exhibit potential as innovative catalysts, white light emitters or battery materials. She is a member of seven scientific academies and has been awarded many prestigious prizes and grants during her career.
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Mircea DINCA
MIT, Boston, USA Website
Mircea Dinca is the W. M. Keck Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. His group pioneered electrically conductive metal-organic frameworks and metal exchange reactions in MOFs that enable industrially relevant catalysis. His additional interests are aligned with the curiosity-driven research advanced by his brilliant group of PhD students and postdocs.
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Eiichi NAKAMURA
University of Tokyo, Japan Website
Prof. Nakamura holds the title of ”University Professor of the University of Tokyo,” and his interests range from chemistry to electron microscopy. He is a recipient of The Medal with Purple Ribbon and The Order of the Sacred Treasure from His Majesty the Emperor.
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Wolfgang WERNSDORFER
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany Website
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer is experimental solid-state physics professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researching on molecular quantum spintronics, i.e. manipulating and reading out the spin states of individual molecules and performing fundamental quantum operations. He has recently started working on quantum sensor technologies to explore the unresolved nature of the dark matter that pervades our universe.
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