CECP Central European Conference on Photochemistry

EPA Get-together for all participants
Cold buffet and soft drinks^#

Chair:

Heger

Opening Lecture, LT1 
Tomás Slanina, Prague, CZ, "Redox and Dynamic Covalent Photochemistry"

Monday,
Feb. 2
Chair:
Landgraf

Opening remarks, EPA presentation

Mayor of Bad Hofgastein, Friedrich Zettinig, Bgm a.D. 

Chair:

Heger

The morning session 1
LT2:  Stefano Crespi, Uppsala, S, "Decoding and Designing Light-Driven Motion: From Classical Azobenzenes to Phosphorus-Based Switches"

ST1:  A. Orthaber, Uppsala, S, "Introducing heavier main group motifs into molecular Switches"

ST2: L.E. Llanes-Montesino, Geneva, CH, "Unconventional photophysics unveiled in [Au₂₅(PET)₁₈]⁰ cluster"
 
Conference photo outside the building

Coffee break

The morning session 2

ST3: G. Jung, Saarbrücken, D, "Single-Molecule Photooxidation of Terrylene"

ST4: J. Berger, Saarbrücken, D, "Photochemical Proton Transfer of Single Molecules" 

ST5: B. Bagemihl, Leipzig/Raleigh, D/USA, "Investigation of Excited State Spin Interactions in earth abundant Cu(I) Complexes with TEMPO Radicals"

ST6: I.V. Khariushin, Strasbourg, F, "Supramolecular Dyads as Photogenerated Qubit Candidates"

Afternoon break

9.10 a.m.



9.45 a.m.

10.05 a.m.

10.25 a.m.

10.35 a.m.

11.05 a.m.


11.25 a.m.


11.45 a.m.



12.05 a.m.


12.25 a.m.

Chair:

Tschierlei

The evening session
LT3: Nadja A. Simeth-Crespi, Göttingen, D, "Manipulating Biomolecules with Light" 

ST7: G. Lavarda, Mainz, D, "Photoactive Supramolecular Polymers: Advancing Molecular Design for Energy Conversion"

ST8: M. Karnahl, Braunschweig, D, "Dye-sensitized solar cells based on Cu(I) complexes containing catechol anchor groups that operate with aqueous electrolytes"

ST9: E. Özcan, České Budějovice, CZ, "Non-Conjugated Substituents Modulate Excited-State Dynamics of Keto-Carotenoids"

Industry symposium. 5 min presentations of the industry partners with a booth at the meeting: Ocean Optics (Iskander Usenov), TOPAG/Magnitude (Hannes Ströbel), EKSPLA (Regimantas Januskevcius), LightConversion (Christian Hellwig), Reddem (Malek Ibrahim), MBraun (Leon Richter)

Dinner, warm and cold buffet^#

8.30 p.m.
open-end

Tuesday,
Feb. 3

Chair:

Spangenberg

The morning session 1
LT4: Dario M. Bassani, Talence, F, "Photosynthetic nitrogen to ammonia reduction through water oxidation" 
subsequently "PPS journal presentation"

ST10: J. Jacak, Linz, A, "3D Multiphoton-Lithography with Vitamin-Based Photoinitiators in Aqueous Photoresists" 

ST11: J. P. Zurwellen, Braunschweig, D, "Sn(IV) corroles for triplet energy transfer reactions using vis and red light"

ST12: M. Schmitz, Mainz, D, "Coulombic dyads as a new photocatalyst class"

Coffee break

The morning session 2
ST13: K. Hotzel, Jena, D, "Compartmentalization of Photocatalysts and the Impact of Soft Matter Integration in Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution"

ST14: T. Jin, Basel, CH, "Unusually Strong Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Luminescence and Long-Lived Excited States in Mo(0) and Cr(0) Complexes"

ST15: L. Niederst, Mulhouse, F, "Collaborative homo- and hetero-FRET processes in singlet-singlet photosensitization probed by photopolymerization" 

ST16: L. Nicchio, Pavia, I, "Visible-light mediated difunctionalization strategies with arylazo sulfones"

Afternoon break

9.00 a.m.



9.35 a.m.


9.55 a.m.


10.15 a.m.


10.35 a.m.


11.05 a.m.



11:25 a.m.



11:45 a.m.



12:05 a.m.


12.25 p.m.

Chair:

Troian-Gautier

The evening session
LT5: Felix Glaser, Louvain-la-Neuve, B, "Welcome to the Dark Side:  Photoactive Iron Complexes with Microsecond Excited-State Lifetimes"

ST17: Y.-P. Sun, Clemson, USA, "Carbon “Quantum” Dots: Exploration of Carbon at Zero-Dimension and Their Photochemical Properties and Applications"

ST18: M. Di Donato, Sesto Fiorentino, I, "Temperature and solvent polarity regulate the interplay between bright and dark states in BODIPY oligomers"

ST19: M.A. Filatov, Dublin, IR, "Asymmetrical Substitution as a Tool to Boost Intersystem Crossing in BODIPY Chromophores"

ST20: N. Basaric, Zagreb, HR, "BODIPY Photocages Cleavable on Boron"

Invitation to "PhotoIUPAC 2026" in Zagreb

5.20 p.m.



5.55 p.m.



6.15 p.m.



6.35 p.m.

6.55 p.m.


7.15 p.m.

Wednesday,
Feb. 4

Chair:

Fernández-Terán

The morning session 1

LT6: Axel Kahnt, Leipzig, D, "Pulse Radiolysis - Shedding Light on a Powerful Tool Complementing Photochemistry"

ST21: L. Denninger, Frankfurt, D, "Same Same but Different: Vibronic Coupling to Selectively Target Subpopulations"

ST22: A.P. Golovanov, Manchester, UK, "NMRtorch: Light-Coupled NMR Spectroscopy for photochemistry and beyond"

ST23: M. Mauro, Padova, I, "Photo- and electrochemically-induced circularly polarized luminescence in transition metal complexes"

Coffee break

The morning session 2
ST24: E. Sucre-Rosales, Geneva, CH, "Understanding the photoinduced electron-transfer quenching of PDI radical anion"

ST25: J. Kölbel, Geneva, CH, "To TICT, to TRICT, or to Split Paths? – Multidimensional Spectroscopies Track the Excited-State Decision Tree in Donor–Bridge–Acceptor Molecules"

ST27: C. Benitez-Martin, Gothenburg, S, "When two-photon absorption meets negative T-type photochromism: en route to a four-photon like fluorescence response"

ST26: T. Solomek, Amsterdam, NL, "Strain-Gated Photochemical Fe²⁺ Uncaging in Ferrocene-[n]Cycloparaphenylenes: A Photomechanophore Paradigm"
subsequently "7th HRSMC/EPA Summer School on Photochemistry presentation"

Afternoon break

9.00 a.m.


9:35 a.m.



9:55 a.m.



10.15 a.m.

10.35 a.m.


11.05 a.m.



11:25 a.m.




11:45 a.m.



12:05 a.m.

12.25 a.m.

Chair:

Protti



















Landgraf 

The evening session
ST28: K.R. de Graaf, Tampere, FL, "Traceless Photopolymerization with Non-Pulsed Red Light Enables 3D-Printable Cell-Laden Hydrogels"

ST29: N. Hoffmann, Strasbourg, F, "Photocycloadditions with lignin derived aromatic compounds"

ST30: J. Christmann, Clermont-Ferrand, F, "Molecular photochemistry insights into polyethylene photooxidation mechanism and its consequences on permeability"

H. Kisch, Erlangen, D, presentation of his book "Light: From Photochemistry, Photocatalysis and Photobiology to Visual Art", ISBN: 9783111029344

Closing Experimental Lecture, LT7
Michael Tausch, Wuppertal, D, "Playing with Light-Thinking in Excited States"

Introduction to the his book "Chemistry With Light, Innovative Didactics for Studies and Teaching", ISBN: 978-3-662-72615-0

5.20 p.m.



5.40 p.m.


6.00 p.m.



6.20 p.m.



6.30 p.m.

CECP 2026 Prize for best oral presentation and best poster of a young researcher, sponsored by tbc

Closing ceremony

Dinner, warm and cold buffet, "Bauernbuffet"^#

Celebrating the 20 Years of CECP conferences in Bad Hofgastein