Past seminars & Workshops
CRC Seminars in 2025
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24.01.2025 | Olivier Soppera | Université de Haute-Alsace | "Custom synthesis of functional nanoparticles triggered by surface plasmons" | |
| 28.02.2025 | Emiliano Cortés | LMU, Munich | "Unlocking Sustainable Energy Solutions through Light-Driven Technologies" | |
| 25.04.2025 | Wiebke Albrecht | AMOLF | "The best of both worlds: merging light and electron microscopy for structure-property relations of plasmonic nanoparticles" | |
| 02.06.2025 | Sven Askes | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | "Light-pulsed nanoscale heating for catalytic control" | |
| 20.06.2025 | Pramod Pillai | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune | "Light-Matter Interactions at Nanoscale Leading to Chemical Change" | |
| 04.07.2025 | Jacinto Sá | Uppsala universitet | "Plasmons: From Ore to Catalyst." | |
| 05.09.2025 | Marcus Raschke | University of Colorado Boulder | "Ultrafast nano-imaging – probing structure, coupling, and dynamics of matter on its natural length and time scales" | |
| 10.10.2025 | Olga Guselnikova | TU Wien | "Revising model reactions in plasmonic chemistry" | |
| 07.11.2025 | Anton Plech | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | "Laser-based nanoparticle synthesis -Structural and mechanistic insights" | |
| 21.11.2025 | Katja Höflich | Ferdinand-Braun-Institute | "Direct is beautiful: exploiting the full potential of focused electron and ion beams for nanofabrication" | |
CRC seminars in 2024
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02.02.2024 | Reinhard Maurer | University of Warwick | "Simulation of hot-electron-driven chemistry at surfaces and nanoparticles" | |
| 05.02.2024 | Ara Apkarian | University of California at Irvine | "The Nexus of Optical and Electron Microscopy: TERS in the Atomistic Near Field" | |
| 17.05.2024 | Yonatan Sivan | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva | "“hot” electrons in metals – when they matter, and when they do not…" | |
| 27.05.2024 | Sasha Govorov | Ohio University | "Short Stories from the World of Optical Metamaterials: “What is so hot about electrons in metal nanocrystals?” DNA-Origami, The Origin of Chirality, Chiral Plasmonic Photochemistry, and More" | |
| 21.06.2024 | Thorsten Feichtner | University of Würzburg | "Potentials in plasmonics" | |
| 12.07.2024 | Wei Xiong | University of California, San Diego | "Ultrafast Dynamics of Molecular Polaritons" | |
| 27.09.2024 | Hans Behringer | University of Hamburg | "Hamburg Research Centre for Ultrafast Imaging: Electrons, atoms and molecules in slow motion" | |
| 30.09.2024 | Francesca Calegari | DESY | "Controlling Matter at Extreme Time Scales" | |
| 11.10.2024 | Giulia Tagliabue | EPFL | ||
| 28.10.2024 | Christian Schäfer | Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg | "Polaritonics for Enantiomer-Selective Control and Enhanced Plasmonic Catalysis" | |
| 08.11.2024 | Florian Schulz | University of Hamburg | ||
| 29.11.2024 | Silvia Vignolini | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces | "Colours with a twist: bio-inspired self-assembled chiral architecture" | |
Winter Semester 2023/2024
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27.10.2023 | Zee Hwan Kim | Seoul National University, Korea | "Driving and monitoring surface photo-chemistry with plasmons" | |
| 03.11.2023 | Christian Roßner | Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. | "cRAFTing nanomaterials: from hairy colloids to optically functional assemblies" | |
| 1.12.2023 | Helene Seiler | Freie Universität Berlin | "Ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics in nanomaterials" | |
| 8.12.2023 | Laura Fabris | Politecnico di Torino, Italy | "Understanding nanostructured metallic surfaces to improve light-driven processes" | |
| 15.12.2023 | Elke Scheer | Universität Konstanz | "Charge transport through single molecule junctions of organic radicals" | |
Winter Semester 2022/2023
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18.11.2022 | Johannes Gurke | University of Potsdam & IAP | “Applied Photochemistry & 3D Bioelectronics: Translating Novel Organic Photochemistry into Biomedical Engineering" | |
25.11.2022 | Rigoberto Hernandez | John Hopkins University, Baltimore | "Spiral feedback between computation and experiment at the nano-bio interface" | |
| 02.12.2022 | Ki Tae Nam | Seoul National University, South Korea | “432 Symmetric Chiral Gold Nanopariticles directed by peptides” | |
| 09.12.2022 | Holger Lange | University of Hamburg | "Optically-induced Dynamics in Nanoscale Metals" | |
| 16.12.2022 | Ilko Bald | University of Potsdam | "Selectivity, chirality and application of plasmon-induced chemical reactions " | |
| 13.01.2023 | Guillaume Baffou | Aix Marseille University, France | "Thermoplasmonics for physics, chemistry and biology at the microscale" | |
| 23.01.2023 | Stefanie Gräfe | Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena | "Plasmon-assisted catalysis - mechanistic aspects" | |
Winter Semester 2021/22
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.11.2021 | Renee Frontiera | University of Minnesota | "Ultarfast SERS probes of plasmon-molecule interactions" |
| 26.11.2021 | Andrea Baldi | Vrije University of Amsterdam | “Plasmon-driven synthesis of nanomaterials” |
| 10.12.2021 | Bill Barnes | University of Exeter | “Linking molecules with light” |
| 07.01.2022 | Renato Zenobi | ETH Zurich | tba |
| 21.01.2022 | Emiliano Cortes | LMU Munich | "Plasmonic and photonic catalysis" |
| 04.02.2022 | Pedro Camargo | University of Helsinki | tba |
| 18.02.2022 | Carsten Sönnichsen | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | "Plasmons for implantable sensors" |
Winter & Summer Semester 2020/2021
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
8.01.2021 | Prof. Dr. Prashant Jain | University of Illinois | Plasmonic Chemistry: Concepts and Controversies |
| 22.01.2021 | Prof. Dr. Matias Bargheer | University of Potsdam | Discussion the schedule of the research center |
| 5.02.2021 | Prof. Dr. Ilko Bald | University of Potsdam | Plasmon mediated bond cleavage in halogenated DNA |
| 19.02.2021 | Prof. Dr. Jeremy Baumberg | University of Cambridge | Using light to watch molecule-metal interactions at the single bond level |
| 5.03.2021 | Prof. Dr. Carsten Henkel | University of Potsdam | An optics view on plasmonic particles |
| 19.03.2021 | Prof. Dr. Stefan Maier | Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich | Light harvesting and energy conversion with nanostructured metals and dielectric |
| 16.04.2021 | Prof. Dr. Janina Kneipp | Humboldt University, Berlin | Plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy for monitoring plasmon-catalyzed reactions |
30.04.2021 | Prof. Cyrille Boyer | University of New South Wales, Australia | Advancing Macromolecular Synthesis for 3D Printing and Surface Functionalization |
| 21.05.2021 | Dr.Bartholomäus Pieber | Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam | An organic chemist's view on photocatalysis |
| 28.05.2021 | Prof. Dr. Timothy Noël | University of Amsterdam | Accelerating photocatalysis in continuous-flow reactors |
| 11.06.2021 | Prof. Dr. Renske van der Veen | University of Illinois | Electrons and X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light Energy Conversion |
25.06.2021 | Prof. Dr. Katherine Willets | Temple University, Philadelphia | Measuring hot carriers in plasmonic nanoparticle electrod |
| 09.07.2021 | Prof. Dr. Javier Aizpurua | Center for Materials Physics, San Sebastián | Describing plasmon-enhanced molecular spectroscopy at the atomic scale |
| 20.08.2021 | Prof. Dr. Matias Bargheer | University of Potsdam | "Recent progress in understanding plasmon driven reactions: "hot" electrons and vibrations" |
| 03.09.2021 | Dr. Claudia Pacholksi & Evgenii Titov | University of Potsdam | "Tuneable metal/semiconductor hybrids for controlling plasmonic catalysis." |
| 01.10.2021 | WORKSHOP | University of Potsdam | "Elementary Processes of Light-Driven Reactions at Nanoscale Metals" |
| 04.10.2021 | WORKSHOP | University of Potsdam | "Elementary Processes of Light-Driven Reactions at Nanoscale Metals" |