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Excitonic Frontiers

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Sandrine Heutz, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Professor Garry Rumbles and Professor Martin Heeney.

Add to Calendar 03/25/24 09:00 AM 03/26/24 05:00 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Excitonic Frontiers <p>Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Sandrine Heutz, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Professor Garry Rumbles and Professor Martin Heeney.</p> The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG
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Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Sandrine Heutz, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Professor Garry Rumbles and Professor Martin Heeney.

Processes involving the photoexcited states of matter, or excitons, underpin some of today’s most important and diverse scientific advances, from solar cells, to quantum technologies via photosystems and catalysis. This meeting brings together world-leaders from traditionally separate fields to share views on the fundamental science, exploitation and characterisation of excitons, aiming to generate radical advances in exciton science and technology.

The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available shortly. Talks will be recorded, and the recordings will be available on the meeting webpage after the event (subject to speaker permission).

Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 

Attending this event

This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields.

  • Free to attend.
  • Both in person and online attendance is available. Advance registration is essential. Please follow the link to register.
  • Lunch is available on both days of the meeting for an optional £25 per day. There are plenty of places to eat nearby if you would prefer to purchase food offsite. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch to the meeting. 

Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

Credit: Nathaniel Gallop
Credit: Nathaniel Gallop

Organisers

Professor Sandrine Heutz, Imperial College London, UK

Professor Sandrine Heutz, Imperial College London, UK

Sandrine Heutz is a Professor of Functional Molecular Materials at Imperial College London. She did her undergraduate degree at the University of Liege (Belgium) and Sherbrooke (Canada), and obtained her PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College London in 2002.  Following a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at University College London on molecular magnetic biosensors she returned to Imperial for a Lectureship in the Materials Department. She leads SPIN-Lab, a multiuser Facility that investigates the interaction of electronic spins and photons and is the co-director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology.  Her current research is focused on the growth and characterisation of molecular thin films, with particular emphasis on understanding the relationship between molecular structure and optoelectronic and spintronic properties.  

Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Imperial College London, UK

Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Imperial College London, UK

Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular and hybrid semiconductor materials and their application to solar energy conversion. She also works with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial to explore the mitigation potential of renewable energy technologies. She is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science and has published over 250 articles and a book on the physics of solar cells. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.

Professor Garry Rumbles, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Professor Garry Rumbles, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Garry Rumbles is a Senior Research Fellow in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, USA. He received his BSc in Chemistry with Electronics from the University of Southampton, UK in 1980. He spent 3 years in the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, obtaining his PhD on the photophysics of synthetic polymers from the University of London in 1984. He spent over 3 years in the USA as a post-doctoral researcher first at the University of Arizona, and then the University of California, Irvine. He returned to the UK in 1987 and after a brief period as a research associate at the Royal Institution, he joined the chemistry department faculty at Imperial College London. He departed Imperial College in 2001 as a Reader moving to NREL as a Scientist in the Center for Basic Science and subsequently rising to his current position of Senior Research Fellow. He remains a visiting professor of Imperial College, and is also a professor adjoint in the department of chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the Associate Director of Research for the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and NREL. He is an associate editor of the RSC journal ‘Sustainable Energy and Fuels’. His current research interests are in the study of photo-induced electron transfer processes in molecular materials and the development of transient microwave conductivity. He has published over 220 journal articles, has over 13000 Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 64. He is the principal investigator of a $4M research program in solar photochemistry at NREL that is funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Professor Martin Heeney, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Professor Martin Heeney, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Martin Heeney is a Professor of Chemical Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and received his PhD from the same institution in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Cook. Following eight years in industry, he joined the Materials Department at Queen Mary University of London as a senior lecturer in 2007 before moving to Imperial College in 2009 and KAUST in 2022. His research interests include the design, synthesis and characterisation of solution processed materials for a variety of applications. He has published over 300 research papers, 5 book chapters and over 100 patents. He has been named five times by Thomson Reuters as a HighlyCited researcher in the field of Materials Science, is a recipient of the RSC Corday-Morgan (2013) medal, the RSC Peter Day (2020) award and the Macro group UK medal (2020).