IISER MOHALI

About the Speaker: Professor Frank Würthner obtained his PhD degree at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, under the guidance of Professor Franz Effenberger. After a postdoctoral stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and as a chemist in BASF AG, Central Dye Research, Ludwigshafen, he did his habilitation in organic chemistry from the University of Ulm, Germany. Since 2002, he has been a professor at the University of Würzburg, where he served as the head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Dean of the Chemistry Department, and founding director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry. Prof. Würthner’s research has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Adolf-von-Baeyer Medal (2017), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2016), Elsevier Award (Japanese Photochemistry Association) (2016), Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award (Royal Chemical Society Spain) (2015), elected member of German Academy of Science Leopoldina (2016). He has published more than 600 papers and is listed among the highly cited chemists since 2014. His research interests include the synthesis of π-conjugated molecules and functional dyes, their application in organic electronics, photonics, and photovoltaics, the construction of complex supramolecular architectures composed of π-scaffolds, mechanistic elucidation of self-assembly processes, and the investigation of light-induced processes in dye-based nanosystems.