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Invited Speaker: Gion Calzaferri

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Gion Calzaferri

Gion Calzaferri is emeritus professor of physical chemistry at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He spent significant research secondments at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, CO (1984), and at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1990). As visiting professor he was associated with the École Normale Supérieure Cachan (France) in 2000–2001, and with Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster (Germany) in 2007–2008. He is the 2007 recipient of the Theodor Förster lectureship, awarded jointly by the German Chemical Society and the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry. His research focuses on supramolecularly organized molecules, clusters, and complexes in zeolites, and on artificial antenna systems for light harvesting.