PROGRAM  

For those arriving early on Sunday Pre Registration will be available from 15:00 -17:00. 

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Monday - March 11

  • 08:00 Registration

Session 1 - Opening:

  • 09:00 Welcome
    Prof. Klaus Meerholz - University of Cologne
  • 09:15 Nanographene Dicarboximides as Templates for Organic Electronics
    Prof. Frank Würthner - University of Würzburg
  • 10:00 Enhancing the photostability of persistent luminescent radicals via structural modification
    Prof. Will Skene - Universite de Montreal
  • 10:22 Tailoring of rubrene thin film crystallinity via organic epitaxy
    Dr. Luisa Raimondo - University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 10:45 Coffee Break

Session 2:

  • 11:15 The Road From Semiconductors to Metals: Engineering Topological States in Nanographenens
    Prof. Felix Fischer - UC Berkeley
  • 12:00 Uniaxial Structure Induction by Graphene Nanoribbon Templated Growth
    Philipp Weitkamp - University of Cologne
  • 12:22 Excitation dynamics in rubrene crystalline films grown via organic epitaxy
    Dr. Alessandro Minotto - University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 12:45 Lunch

Session 3:

  • 13:45 2D materials + molecules (superlattices & networks)
    Prof. Paolo Samori - Universite de Strasburg
  • 14:30 Strategies toward electrically driven polariton lasing
    Julia Witt - University of Cologne
  • 14:52 Obtaining blue delayed fluorescence via N-quaternisation of carbazole – pyridine isomers
    Ruth Pollard - Northumbria University
  • 15:15 Coffee Break

Session 4:

  • 15:45 Identifying aggregates in organic solar cells by optical spectroscopy
    Prof. Anna Köhler - University of Bayreuth
  • 16:30 Resolving Structure, Exciton Interactions and Ultrafast Dynamics in Aggregates of Chiral Squaraine Molecules
    Robin Bernhard - University of Cologne
  • 16:52 Identifying the origin of delayed electroluminescence in a polariton organic light-emitting diode
    Ahmed Abdelmagid, University of Turku
  • 17:15 End of Sessions
  • 18:00 Poster Session

Tuesday - March 12

Session 5:

  • 09:00 Exploring New Carbon Allotropes and Nanographenes: On Surface Synthesis and Single-Molecule Manipulation
    Prof. Michael Gottfried - University of Marburg
  • 09:45 Magnetic behaviour in metal-free radical thin films
    Prof. M. Benedetta Casu - University of Tübingen
  • 10:07 Single-molecule readout of spin quantum beats in a charge-separated radical pair state
    Eva Schmid, Universität Regensburg
  • 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 6:

  • 11:00 Design of Optoelectronic Properties in 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks
    Prof. Dima Perepichka, McGill University
  • 11:45 Flexible Phenanthracene Nanotubes for Explosive Detection
    Simon Rickert - University of Bonn
  • 12:07 Unidirectional Molecular Adaptation by Coupled Stimuli
    Sebastian Baumert, University of Münster
  • 12:30 Lunch

Session 7:

  • 13:30 Chiral organic semiconductors: predicting molecules and motifs for high charge carrier mobility (via Zoom)
    Prof. Kim Jelfs - Imperial College London
  • 14:15 Modelling charge transport properties of dipolar self-assembly merocyanines beyond the hopping regime
    Nora Gildemeister - University of Cologne
  • 14:37 Enhancing Anisotropic Polariton Lasing Efficiency in Organic Microcavities through Molecular Conformation, Orientation and Schlieren Texturing
    Dr. Florian Le Roux - University of Cologne
  • 15:00 Coffee Break

Session 8:

  • 15:30 Organic semiconductors: from displays to neuromorphic circuits
    Prof. Karl Leo - TU Dresden
  • 16:15 Orientation distributions of OLED emitters probed by single-molecule microscopy
    Dr. Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Universität zu Köln
  • 16:37 Design strategies for high performance light-emitting triarylmethyl radicals
    Prof. Alexander Kühne, Uni Ulm
  • 17:00 End of Sessions
  • 18:30 Conference Dinner

Wednesday - March 13

Session 9:

  • 09:00 Can molecular processes be modified in the strong light-matter coupling regime?
    Prof. Stephane Kena-Cohen, Polytechnique Montréal
  • 09:45 Polarization-controlled strong light-matter interaction with templated molecular aggregates
    Roland Schäfer - University of Cologne
  • 10:07 Linear optical properties of organic microcavity polaritons with non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion
    Dr. Kimmo Luoma, University of Turku
  • 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 10:

  • 11:00 Solvation Layer Mapping at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
    Prof. Angelika Kühnle, Bielefeld University
  • 11:45 Complex structure formation of merocyanines on the Ag(100) surface
    Anna Kny - University of Bonn
  • 12:07 On the orientation mechanism of non-polar dyes in light-emitting guest-host systems
    Binh Minh Nguyen, University of Augsburg
  • 12:30 Lunch

Session 11:

  • 13:30 Decoding the mechanisms underlying optoelectronic properties of conjugated diradicals: insights from quantum-chemical modeling (via Zoom)
    Prof. Fabrizia Negri, University of Bologna
  • 14:15 A Semi-AutomatedWorkflow for Surface Docking of Merocyanine Monolayers Using a Special Purpose Parametrization of GFN1-xTB
    Julia Kohn - University of Bonn
  • 14:37 High-throughput Virtual Screening of Existing Organic Chromophores for Materials Discovery
    Dr. Omer Omar, University of Liverpool
  • 15:00 Coffee Break

Session 12 - Closing:

  • 15:30 Evaporated organic solar cells – process, structure and function
    Dr. Pascal Kaienburg, University of Oxford
  • 15:55 Rigid, Aromatic Polymer Architectures
    Prof. Ullrich Scherf, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  • 16:40 Closing Remarks
    Prof. Arne Lützen - University of Bonn
  • 16:45 End of Sessions