Program
ARCNN Scholarships
Deadline: 15 May 2008
The Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network will sponsor a number of scholarships for Australian Early Career Researchers (ECR) or students at the conference. The ECRs or students must be either resident in Australia and/or be employed or enrolled at an Australian education institution or employed by an Australian company. [ECRs are defined as having obtained the award of the PhD degree within the last 5 years.]
Preference will be given to ECRs or students who are members of ARCNN and/or undertaking nanotechnology related research.
The scholarships will pay for half the registration fees, but applicants might also be able to apply directly to ARCNN for travel support.
Applicants who have submitted abstracts should indicate their willingness to be considered by emailing the following information to: ips17@icms.com.au
The application should include:
1. Title of abstract and any additional detail on the project for consideration (1 page);
2. Short justification for support (half page);
3. 1 page CV detailing publications;
4. ARCNN membership status;
and:
5. For ECRs: Head of School letter, copy of Certificate or other evidence of PhD within last 5 years;
For students: Head of School letter, transcript or other evidence of full time studentship at an Australian academic institution.
Selection will be carried out as part of the abstract review process and notification of result given with the result of abstract submission.
Program
The IPS17 technical program will be arranged in plenary sessions, parallel sessions and poster sessions.
The topics will encompass:
- Photoinduced electron and energy transfer;
- Solar hydrogen;
- Biomimetic systems;
- Molecular and nanostructured solar cells;
- Photocatalysis and environmental chemistry;
- Photosynthesis and hydrogenase;
- Photoelectrochemistry and new materials.
Exhibition booths will be available for interested parties from both industry and research groups.
Speakers
IPS-17 Industry Forum
Materials and Protype Development for Solar Energy
Tuesday, 2 July 2008
Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour
1:45 -2:30pm: Energy and Industry
2:30 - 2:50pm: Opportunities for DSC
2:50 -3:10pm: Opportunities for Organic PV - Nanosolar
3:10pm - 3:30 pm: Tea & Coffee
3:30 - 3:50 pm: Industry
3:50 - 4:10 pm: Industry
4:10 - 4:30 pm: CSIRO
4:30 - 4:50 pm: Industry
4:50 - 5:10 pm: Industry
5:10pm - 5:20 pm: 10 minute break
5:20 - 6:00: Future Energy Funding Opportunities
6:00pm - 8:30 pm: Cocktail
Paul Alivisatos
Paul Alivisatos attended the University of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry with Honors in 1981. He continued his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under the supervision of Charles Harris. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the photophysics of electronically excited molecules near metal and semiconductor surfaces. In 1986, he went to AT&T Bell Labs where he worked with Louis Brus as a postdoctoral, and it was at this time that he first became involved in research related to Nanotechnology. In 1988, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is presently Professor of Chemistry and Materials Sciences. He has received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship, the ACS Exxon Solid State Chemistry Fellowship, the Coblentz Award, the Wilson Prize at Harvard, the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry (2004), the Rank Prize (2006), the University of Chicago Distinguished Alumni Award (2006), the Eni Italgas Prize (2007), and the E.O. Lawrence Award (2007). He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Editor of the American Chemical Society Journal and Nano Letters.
He is a senior member of the technical staff at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he serves as Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Director of the Materials Sciences Division.
His research concerns the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals. He investigates the fundamental physical and chemical properties of nanocrystals and also works to develop practical applications of these new materials in biomedicine and renewable energy.
Wonyong Choi
Wonyong Choi received a B.S. degree in engineering from Seoul National University (Korea) in 1988, a Ph.D. degree in environmental chemistry from California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA) in 1996, and postdoctoral training in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1996 to 1998. Dr. Choi has been a professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering in Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea) since 1998. His main research interests are focused on semiconductor photocatalysis and photochemistry for solar energy conversion and environmental applications. Dr. Choi has published 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and was the recipient of Young Scientist Award (Korean Academy of Science and Technology) in 2006.
Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in a poor section of the Bronx. She was a Fullbright Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (UK) in 1951-52 and obtained a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1958.
Professor Dresselhaus began her MIT career at the Lincoln Laboratory. During that time she switched from research on superconductivity to magneto-optics, and carried out a series of experiments which led to a fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of semi-metals, especially graphite.
A leader in promoting opportunities for women in science and engineering, Dresselhaus received a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1973 to encourage women's study of traditionally male dominated fields, such as physics. In 1973, she was appointed to The Abby Rockefeller Mauze chair, an Institute-wide chair, endowed in support of the scholarship of women in science and engineering. In 2000 she acted as chief science advisor to Bill Clinton.
Professor Dresselhaus has served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Treasurer of the US National Academy of Sciences, President of the American Physical Society and is currently Chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, as well as of the Engineering Sciences Section of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the IEEE, the Materials Research Society, the Society of Women Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Carbon Society. She has received numerous awards, including the US National Medal of Science and 23 honorary doctorates worldwide. She served as the Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy in 2000-2001. She is the co-author of four books on carbon science.
Her research interests are in electronic materials, particularly in nanoscience and nanotechnology, with special regard to carbon related materials, novel forms of carbon, including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, porous carbons, activated carbons and carbon aerogels, as well as other nanostructures, such as bismuth nanowires and the use of nanostructures in low dimensional thermoelectricity. She headed a national Department of Energy Study on "Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy," including hydrogen production, storage, and use. She recently cochaired a National Academy of Sciences Decadal Study on "Condensed Matter Materials Physics, CMMP2007"
Professor Dresselhaus has greatly enjoyed her career in science. On her experience working with students, she says, "I like to be challenged. I welcome the hard questions and having to come up with good explanations on the spot. That's an experience I really enjoy."
James Durrant
James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London. His primary research interest is the development of new chemical approaches to solar energy conversion. His research is based around using transient laser spectroscopies to undertake photochemical studies of light driven electron and energy transfer reactions. These studies are undertaken in parallel with device development and functional characterisation, employing a wide range of molecular, polymeric and inorganic materials, with the overall aim of elucidating the underlying functional processes which determine practical device performance.
Akira Fujishima
Professor Fujishima was born in 1942 in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo in 1971. He taught at Kanagawa University for four years and then moved to the University of Tokyo, where he became a Professor in 1986. In 2003, he retired from this position and took on the position of Chairman at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology. His main interests are in photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry and diamond electrochemistry.
Michael Graetzel
Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Michael Graetzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He discovered mesoscopic solar cells and pioneered the use of nanomaterials in photoelectrodes for the solar splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen as well as lithium ion batteries. Author of over 500 publications, two books and inventor of 50 patents, his work has been cited over forty thousand times ranking him amongst the most highly cited scientists in the world. He has received numerous prestigious awards, the most recent one being the Harvey prize 2007. He obtained a doctor degree in natural science from the Technical University Berlin and honorary doctors degrees from the Universities of Delft, Uppsala and Turin.
Martin Green
Martin Green is currently an Australian Government Federation Fellow and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is Research Director of the University's Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence and also a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed to commercialise the University's thin-film, silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group's contributions to photovoltaics are well known, both in the laboratory an in commercial areas. These include the development of the world's highest efficiency silicon solar cells and the successes of several other spin-off companies. He is the author of six books on solar cells and numerous papers in the area of semiconductors, microelectronics, optoelectronics, and, of course, solar cells. His work has resulted in several international awards including the 1999 Australia Prize, the 2002 Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, and the 2007 SolarWorld Einstein Award.
Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi graduated from the University of Cologne (Germany) in 1988, from where he received his PhD in 1990. In 1992, after a postdoctoral appointment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, he took a research position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin. After a brief stay as a Feodor-Lynen Stipend (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Syracuse University he joined in 1995 the faculty of the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory. Since 2004 he is a chaired Full Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany). His research interests focuses on charge separation in donor-acceptor ensembles and on the construction of nanostructured thin films for photoenergy conversion.
Kauzhito Hashimoto
Kazuhito Hashimoto is currently a professor of chemistry at the University of Tokyo. After he received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Tokyo, he obtained a research position at the Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki, Japan) in 1980. In 1989, he was invited as a lecturer to the laboratory of Professor Akira Fujishima in the Department Applied Chemistry at the University of Tokyo, where he was promoted to an associate professor in 1991. When he became a full professor in 1997, he opened his own laboratory at the Research Center of Advanced Science & Technology. In 2003, he succeeded Prof. Fujishima as the chair of the department and opened his own laboratory at this department, too. His current research interests involve photo-related materials such as photocatalysts, polymer photovoltaic cells and photosynthetic microorganisms.
Andrew Holmes
Andrew Holmes is an ARC Federation and VESKI Fellow at the Bio21 Institute in the University of Melbourne. He has research interests in organic semiconducting polymers and led the Chemistry component of the Chemistry/Physics team in Cambridge that developed light emitting polymers. That group also produced one of the early examples of a bulk polymer heterojunction photovoltaic device. Andrew Holmes has more recently contributed also to solid state dye-sensitized solar cells, and he is coordinating a Victorian (Australia) State Government-funded initiative involving Melbourne and Monash universities, CSIRO and various industrial partners to develop flexible photovoltaic devices.
Akihiko Kudo
Prof. Dr. A. Kudo received his early education at the Tokyo University of Science obtaining a B.S. degree in 1983 and his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After one and half year as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas in Austin he became Research Associate at the Tokyo Institute of Technology until 1995. He then joined the Tokyo University of Science as Lecturer before he became Associate Professor in 1998 and Full Professor in 2003. His research interest is to develop new photocatalyst materials for solar hydrogen production from water.
Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz received his doctoral degree in chemistry at the Free University of Berlin in 1977, where he also habilitated in organic chemistry (1982). He worked as a Max Kade Fellow in the department of physics at UC San Diego (1983-1984), and as assistant and associate professor at the FU Berlin and at the University of Stuttgart, before he joined the faculty of the Technical University Berlin as full professor of physical chemistry in 1991. Since 2000 he is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry (formerly Radiation Chemistry) in Mülheim/Ruhr. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Düsseldorf and since 2005 President of the International EPR Society.
Among other awards and fellowships he received the Zavoisky Award (Russia, 2002), the Bruker Prize (U.K., 2003), the Gold Medal of the International EPR Society (2005) and recently a honorary doctorate of the University Uppsala (Sweden, 2008).
He is (co)author of more than 250 publications in scientific journals and has contributed to books and written about 25 review articles. His group has substantially contributed to the understanding of the structure and function of chlorophylls, quinones, carotenoids, and the water splitting complex in photosynthesis, and to the hydrogen conversion process in nature by the enzyme hydrogenase. An important aspect of his work is the development and application of advanced EPR methods supplemented by quantum chemical calculations and other spectroscopic techniques.
Arthur J. Nozik
Dr. Arthur J. Nozik is a Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Professor Adjoint in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2007 he was appointed the Scientific Director of the new Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion under the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory. Nozik received his BChE from Cornell University in 1959 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale University in 1967. Before joining NREL in 1978, then known as the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), he conducted research at the Materials Research Center of the Allied Chemical Corporation (now Honeywell, Inc). . Dr. Nozik's research interests include size quantization effects in semiconductor quantum dots and quantum wells, including multiple exciton generation from a single photon; the applications of unique effects in nanostructures to advanced approaches for solar photon conversion; photogenerated carrier relaxation dynamics in various semiconductor structures; photoelectrochemistry of semiconductor-molecule interfaces; photoelectrochemical energy conversion; photocatalysis; optical, magnetic and electrical properties of solids; and Mössbauer spectroscopy. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters in these fields, written or edited 5 books, holds 11 U.S. patents, and has delivered over 250 invited talks at universities, conferences, and symposia. He has served on numerous scientific review and advisory panels, chaired and organized many international and national conferences, workshops, and symposia, and received several awards in solar energy research, including the 2008 Eni Award from Italy and the 2002 Research Award of the Electrochemical Society. Dr. Nozik has been a Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry from 1993 to 2005. A Special Festschrift Issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry honoring Dr. Nozik's scientific career appeared in the December 21, 2006 issue.. Dr. Nozik is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; he is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the Materials Research Society.
Antonio Martí
Antonio Martí was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1965. He received his doctoral degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1992. Professor Martí has been involved in photovoltaics for 20 years and contributed to fields such as the development of gallium arsenide and silicon solar cells for their use in concentration systems and the study of the fundamentals of photovoltaic energy conversion. In the last 10 years, his major activity has been the development of intermediate band solar cells, mainly when implemented with quantum dots.
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Tsutomu Miyasaka earned masters (1978) and doctoral degree (1981) form The University of Tokyo. In 1981-2001 he was a researcher (1981-1991) and manager (1992-2001) at Ashigara Research Laboratories of Fuji Photo Film Co. In 2001 he joined Toin University of Yokohama as a professor of Faculty of Engineering. He is currently the dean of Graduate School of Engineering and a guest professor in The University of Tokyo. In 2004 he has established Peccel Technologies, Inc. a University-based venture company focusing on industrialization of the technologies of photoelectrochemistry. Being CEO of Peccell he is leading national projects on dye-sensitized solar cell and photo-rechargeable cell funded by NEDO and JST.
Stenbjörn Styring
Stenbjörn Styring studied chemistry and biology at the University of Göteborg where he defended his Ph D thesis in 1985. He is Professor in Molecular Biomimetics at Uppsala University and held earlier the chair in Biochemistry at Lund University. His research on natural photosynthesis mainly deals with mechanistic issues of the water oxidizing complex in Photosystem II. In artificial photosynthesis he focuses on manganese and rutenium-manganese compounds intended for photo-catalytic oxidation of water. His main technique is EPR spectroscopy. Since the start in 1993 he has been the chairman of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis, now with more than 50 researchers. He has coordinated several EU networks and now coordinates a new EU project called "SOLAR-H2- the European solar fuel initiative" in FP7 (12 Partners in 8 countries).