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Keynote speakers

Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Laureate)

Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg (France)
lecture on 'Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - The Self-Organization Approach'

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Jean-Marie LEHN was born in Rosheim, France in 1939. In 1970 he became Professor of Chemistry at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and since 1979 he is Professor at the Collège de France in Paris. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his studies on the chemical basis of "molecular recognition" (i.e. the way in which a receptor molecule recognizes and selectively binds a substrate), which also plays a fundamental role in biological processes. Over the years his work led to the definition of a new field of chemistry, which he has proposed calling "supramolecular chemistry" as it deals with the complex entities formed by the association of two or more chemical species held together by non-covalent intermolecular forces, whereas molecular chemistry concerns the entities constructed from atoms linked by covalent bonds. Subsequently, the area developed into the chemistry of "self-organization" processes and more recently into "constitutional dynamic chemistry". Author of more than 800 scientific publications, Lehn is a member of many academies and institutions. He has received numerous international honours and awards.


Hari Manoharan

Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science (SIMES), Stanford University (U.S.)
lectures on 'Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Single Atom Manipulation', 'Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Single Quanta' and 'Visualizing and Manipulating Quantum Phase'

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Hari Manoharan received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1991. He earned a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and graduated with high honors. Manoharan received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992 and obtained his Ph.D. title in 1997 from Princeton University. From 1998 until 2000 he was a research scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center. Since 2001 he is Assistant Professor of Physics in the School of Humanities and Sciences and, by courtesy, Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
Among his many honors, he has received the IBM Invention Achievement Award (2000), IBM TEAM Patent Award (2000), Research Corporation Research Innovation Award (2002), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2002-2003), ONR Young Investigator Award (2002-2004), NSF CAREER Award (2002-2006), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2004 PECASE).


Alan Rowan

Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
lectures on 'Molecular Machines', 'Molecular Materials: from Molecules to Devices', and 'Single-Molecule-Studies'

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Alan ROWAN was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK in 1966. He completed his PhD in physical organic chemistry in 1991 at the University of Liverpool, England. After a period of postdoctoral research at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, he returned to Europe and became an assistant professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the group of Roeland Nolte. In 2004, he became a full professor in molecular materials. His scientific interests are in the design and construction of supramolecular assemblages possessing catalytic and electronic properties. He is author of about 160 scientific publications. He was awarded a prestigious 'Vici' grant in the Netherlands.






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