Dr. Laura Rodriguez Raurell (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Inorganic Chemistry Department, University of Barcelona, Spain
Title: Playing with luminescent Au(I) organometallic systems: hydrogels, rods and vesicles

Dr. Giacomo Bergamini (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Photochemistry Department, University of Bologna, Italy
Title:

Polysulfurated aromatic molecules as ligands in multichromophoric supramolecular networks

Dr. Nelsi Zaccheroni (Confirmed)

Affiliation: PhotoChemistry Department, University of Bologna, Italy
Title:

Merging nanotechnology and luminescent signalling

 Dr. Mark Heron (Confirmed)

Affiliation: School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK
Title: Merocyanine Dyes and Photochromic Naphthopyrans

Dr. Amparo Faustino (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Title: Tetrapyrrolic macrocycles as anion and metal cation sensors: a comparative study on the sensorial ability of porphyrin and corrole derivatives

Dr. Pier Luigi Gentili (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Italy
Title: The Fuzziness of a Chromogenic Spirooxazine

Dr. Joao Carlos Lima (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  REQUIMTE, Faculty of Science and Technology, University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal
Title:  Multiplexing Light Outputs/Inputs in Nucleic Acid Sensors and Actuators

Dr. Jorge Romero (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, San Jose de los Cerritos, Coahuila, Mexico
Title: Bioconjugated particle preparation of poly(g-glutamic acid(/oligophenylethynilene)

Dr. Sergey Borisov (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Title: New high-performance materials for optical sensing and imaging of methabolic parameters

Dr. Fábio Fernandes (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Centro de Química-Física Molecular and IN, IST, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal
Title:

Characterization of PI(4,5)P2 distribution in membranes through fluorescence spectroscopy

Dr. Tashiro Kentaro (Confirmed)

Affiliation: International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Title: Metal-metal interactions as a probe to visualize the interplays between molecules

Dr. Pierre-Yves Renard (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Normandie university, UMR 6014 CNRS COBRA & FR 3038 INC3M, University of Rouen; CNRS; INSA of Rouen, France
Title: Strategies for post synthetic hydrosolubilization of fluorophores

Dr. Johannes Gierschner (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies – IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain
Title: Highly Luminescent Single Crystals for Organic Optoelectronics

Dr. Masayoshi Higuchi (Confirmed)

Affiliation: National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Title: Electrochromic devices using a metallo-supramolecular polymer film

Dr. Ana Margarida Silva (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Faculty of Science, University of Porto, Portugal
Title: Sustainable synthesis and chemical modifications of rhodamine based chemosensors

Dr. Alfons Penzkofer (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Title: Photo-cycle dynamics of blue light activated cyclases

Dr. Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Photochromic Compounds for Molecular Electronics

Dr. Joakim Andreasson (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Title: Photochromic control of energy transfer processes on DNA scaffolds

Dr. Janos Erostyak (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Pécs, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Experimental Physics, Hungary
Title:

Fluorescence quenching and energy transfer in newly derived cavitands’ host-guest complexes

Dr. Claudia Caltagirone (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica ed Analitica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
Title:

Drug Loaded Fluorescent Cubosomes for Theranostic Applications

Dr. Maria Sameiro Torres Gonçalves (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Chemistry Department, University of Minho, Gualtar Campus, Portugal
Title: Long-wavelength fluorescent probes based on new Nile Blue derivatives

Dr. Luís Filipe V. Ferreira (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Complexo Interdisciplinar, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Title: A spectroscopic characterization of pigments, glazes and pastes of the Portuguese tin-glazed earthenware from the 16th century and 17thcenturies

Dr. Rui Fausto (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Title:

Strategies for Selection of Conformational States of Matrix-Isolated Molecules: Case Studies

Dr. Fred Brouwer (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title:  Fluorescent probes for contact

Dr. Jean-Luc Fillaut (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, University of Rennes 1, France
Title:

Engineering of neutral cyclometallated platinum(II) complexes incorporating acetylide ligands for chemosensing

Dr. Lidong Li (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Univeristy of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Title: Tunable Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence

Dr. Yao Hiroshi (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo
Title: Tunable Metal-Enhancement Fluorescence

Dr. Frédéric Castet (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Bordeaux, France
Title: Multistate nonlinear optical switches

Dr. Matthew J. Allen (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, USA
Title: Application of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Catalysis

Dr. Milko van der Boom (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Organic Chemistry, Israel
Title:

Surface Confined Molecular Assemblies for Electrochromic Applications

Dr. Orhan Güney (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Title: Design of fluorescent materials for selective optical sensing of metal ions

Dr. Vicente L. Cebolla (Confirmed)

Affiliation: CSIC, Instituto de Carboquímica, Zaragoza, Spain
Title: Fluorescence Detection by Intensity Changes (FDIC), a useful analytical tool for complex mixtures based on non-covalent interactions

Dr. Cesar Laia (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal
Title:

Unraveling Photochromic and Photoluminescent Inorganic Pigments of Zeolite 4A Intercalating Chalcogen Clusters

Dr. Gaëlle Cane (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dept of Immunology, Genetics & Pathology, Uppsala University Biomedical Center, Sweden
Title: Molecular Profiling of Colorectal Cancer by Proximity Ligation Assays

Dr. Katharina Uhlir (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Conservation Science Department, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria
Title: X-ray fluorescence analysis in the field of cultural heritage – The PART II spectrometer and its applications

Dr. Felix Zelder (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Title: Corrin-based Chemosensors for Cyanide: Fundamentals and Applications

Dr. Sylvain Achelle (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, France
Title: Conjugated pyrimidine derivatives : From synthesis to fluorescent sensors and non linear optical applications

Dr. Piotr Bojarski (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Gdansk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Institute of Experimental, Physics, Gdansk, Poland
Title: Energy transfer and local dye concentration in silica and and titanium dioxide nanofilms

Dr. Viviane Pilla (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Federal University of Uberlândia, Brasil
Title: Spectroscopic and Thermal Characterization in Natural Dye: Annatto and Anthocyanin

Dr. Krzysztof Dobek (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Adama Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Physics, Umultowksa 85, Poznan, Poland
Title:

Temperature effects on photophysical properties of Coumarin 102 and Coumarin 153

Dr. M. Elisabete. C. D. Real Oliveira (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Centre of Physics, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Title: Development of functionalized Dioctadecyldimethylammonium Salts (DODAX)/Monoolein (MO) nanovetors for controlled drug delivery

Dr. Alessandra Garau (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, University of Cagliari, Italy
Title:

New coumarin-based fluorescent chemosensors for Hg2+ detection

Dr. Ute Resch-Genger (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Division Biophotonics, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
Title: Methods for the determination of the optical properties and the surface chemistry of fluorescent particles

Dr. Kazuki Nakamura (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Japan
Title: Thermoswitchable emission and coloration of composite films containing emissive molecules and fluoran dyes

Dr. Ishita Mukerji (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Dept., Wesleyan University, Hall-Atwater Labs, Middletown, USA
Title: Applying 6-Methylisoxanthopterin-Enhanced Fluorescence To Examine Protein-DNA Interactions in the Picomolar Range

Dr. Andrea Pucci (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Italy
Title: Chromogenic materials based on luminescent molecular rotors

Dr. Martina Cacciarini (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dept. of Chemistry “U. Schiff”, University of Firenze, Italy
Title: Dihydroazulene/vinylheptafulvene-based chemodosimeters for thiols

Dr. Mercedes Novo Rodríguez (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Facultade de Ciencias, Lugo, Spain
Title: Dynamics of DNA binders studied by Single-Molecule Fluorescence Tecniques

Dr. Blake Peterson (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas, USA
Title: Design and Synthesis of Fluorescent Molecular Probes Based on Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Andreia Leite (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Title:

Fluorescent Iron Chelators with Antimicrobial Activity: Insights on Structure Activity Relationships from Spectroscopic Studies in Liposomes

Dr. Michel Negrerie (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Laboratoire d’Optique et Biosciences, INSERM U696, UMR7645, Ecole
Polytechnique, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Title: Time-resolved absorption spectroscopy of nitric oxide protein sensors

Dr. Graham Hungerford (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  HORIBA Jobin-Yvon IBH, Glasgow, UK
Title:  Time-resolved luminescence to study a protein interaction and conformation

Dr. Alexey Feofanov (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. And M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biological Faculty, Moscow Russia.
Title:

Combining fluorescence microscopy and bioengineering approach to discover new potassium Kv1.x channel blockers

Dr. Vilija Krisciuniene (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Synthetic Chemistry
Radvilenu pl. 19 Kaunas LT-50254 Lituania
Title:  Selective and sensitive chemosensors based on 1′3,3 4-tetrahydrospiro[chromene-2,2′-indole] derivatives for the optical detection of cyanide ion

Dr. Kenjiro Hanaoka (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: Development of Far-Red to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Dyes and their Applications to Multicolor Bio-imaging

Dr. Graça Neves Morgado (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Organic Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Title: New b-functionalized meso-tetraarylporphyrins as red fluorescent probes for metal cations.

Dr. Anabela Sousa de Oliveira (Confirmed)

Affiliation: CQFM – Centro de Química – Física Molecular and IN – Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
Title:

PAHs in Fish From Guanabara Bay accessed by Fixed and Synchronous Fluorescence

Dr. Isabelle Leray (Confirmed)

Affiliation: PPSM, (CNRS UMR 8531), ENS-Cachan, France
Title:

Selective detection of alcali cation by calixarene-based fluorescent sensor

Dr. Yu Tian (Confirmed)

Affiliation: School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Title: Fluorescence identification of key membrane foulants in membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment

Dr. Elena Lalinde Peña (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Departamento de Química Inorgánica; Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química (CISQ). Facultad de Ciencias, Estudios Agroalimentarios e Informática, La Rioja, Spain
Title:

Stimuli-responsive luminescent platinum-lead clusters

Dr. Joana Barata (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Aveiro, Organic Chemistry Department, Portugal
Title: Designing new photoactive systems for biomedical applications based on corrole macrocycles and nanoparticles

Dr. Onder Pekcan (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Title: Fluorescence Study on Film formation from Polymer/Inorganic-oxide Based Composites

Dr. Marco Montalti (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Chemistry Department, University of Bologna, Italy
Title: Self-assembled fluorogenic nanoparticles for photo-tunable multicolour fluorescence imaging

Dr. Hiroyuki Asanuma (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Molecular Design and Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan
Title: Stemless linear probe with multiple fluorophores on D-threoninols for the fluorescent imaging of m-RNA in cell

Dr. Jubaraj B. Baruah (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
Title: Ion and molecular recognition by fluorescent receptors

Dr. Mireille Blanchard-Desce (Confirmed)

Affiliation: University of Bourdaux, France
Title: Engineering of ultra-bright molecular based organic nanoparticles. Towards molecular plasmonics?

Dr. Adelaide Almeida (Confirmed)

Affiliation: CESAM – Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Deparment of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Title: Bioluminescence and its application in the monitoring of new antimicrobial treatments

Dr. Maria Pilo (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Title:

Terthiophene-appended Ru(II)-terpyridine complexes: nature of the tether and luminescent behaviour

Dr. Burak Atakan (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of mechanical and process engineering, Faculty of Engineering
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Title:

Eu3+, Tb3+ doped yttria coatings for surface temperature measurements

Dr. Fausto Puntoriero (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche – Università di Messina, Italy
Title: Ultrafast energy dynamics of BODIPY/ carbohydrate supramolecular systems

Dr. Fabiano Rodembusch (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Avenida Bento Gonçalves 9500. Bairro Agronomia CEP 91501-970 – Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil
Title: Photophysical Characterization of Fluorophore-Pharmacophore dyads based on N-Heterocycles achieved by multicomponent synthesis.

Dr. Osama K. Abou-Zied (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, Oman
Title:

Characterization of the warfarin drug-binding site of human serum albumin using fluorescent probes

Dr. Uwe Pischel (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Title: Borylated Arylisoquinolines: A New Class of Fluorescent Dyes as Versatile Probes, Sensors, and Switches

Dr. Maria Joao Melo (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department Conservation and Restoration
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon,
Campus Caparica, Portugal
Title: Unveiling the colors of medieval illuminations with a little help from microspectrofluorimetry, SERS and FORS

Dr. Ko Vicent Chi Chiu (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Biology and Chemistry
City University of Hong Kong, China
Title: Highly luminescent rhenium complexes with readily tunable features

Dr. Beata Joanna Myśliwa-Kurdziel (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Title: Light-induced protochlorophyllide reduction – a key step in chlorophyll biosynthesis

Dr. Elisabete de Jesus O. Marques (Confirmed)

Affiliation: REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, FCT, University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal
Title: A Journey Through Fluorimetric and Colorimetric Properties of New Emissive Chromophores Bearing Vitamine B6 units.

Dr. Cristina Nuñez González (Confirmed)

Affiliation: UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, FCT-UNL, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Portugal
Title:

Novel Rhodamine Probes for Metal Detection in Solution, Gas Phase and Cellulose Supported Devices

Dr. David Magri (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080, Malta
Title: ’Pourbaix Sensors’: A New Class of Fluorescent Molecular Logic Gates for pE and pH based on Photoinduced Electron Transfer

Dr. Carlos Baleizão (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Centro de Química-Física Molecular – Instituto Superior Técnico, PORTUGAL
Title: Hydrid Silica Nanoparticles for intracellular pH sensing

Dr. David Wright (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Chemistry Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Title:

Fluorescent and Chromogenic Probes for Low Resource Diagnostics

Dr. Teresa Moreno García (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Departamento de Química, Universidad de La Rioja, Spain
Title:

Luminescent alkynyl phenylquinoline-based Pt(II) complexes

Dr. Mercedes Cano Esquivel (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Inorganic Chemistry Department, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Title: Combining luminescence properties in Liquid Crystal Materials to Generate Molecular Electronics.

Dr. Claudio Roscini (Confirmed)

Affiliation: NANOSFun grupo, ICN2, University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain
Title: Fast-responsive photochromic materials

Dr. Raquel Gavara (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Inorganic Chemistry Department, University of Barcelona, Spain
Title:

Exploring the photophysics and aggregation mechanisms of alkynyl gold(I) compounds in water

Dr. Souchum Yin (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, China
Title:  New colorimetric chemosensor containing BODIPY with large blue-shift absorption for naked eyes detection of Cu2+ and Hg2+

Dr. Bo Wegge Laursen (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Nano-Science Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Long Fluorescence Lifetime Triangulenium Dyes

Dr. Ryota Sakamoto (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Nishihara (Inorganic Chemistry) Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science,  The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Title:

Molecular and low-dimensional systems based on luminescent dipyrrin complexes

Dr. Anatoly Metelitsa (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Southern Federal University, Russian Federation, Russia.
Title:

Photochromic spiropyrans for fluorescent molecular switches

Dr. Anatoly Chenyshev (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Russia
Title:

Ionochromism of azole substituted spiroindolinenaphthopyrans

Dr. Kunbo Wang (Confirmed)

Affiliation:  Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Title: What we can see from the comparisons with genomic maps to FISH maps in cotton (Gossypium)

Dr. Carlos D. S. Brites (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Departamento de Física & CICECO, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Title:

Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Nanothermometry

Prof. Dr. Jose M. Leal (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Chemistry Department, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Title:

Dimerization of Doxorubicin. New Insights into the Mechanism of Nucleic Acid/Doxorubicin Interaction

Dr. Luiz Oliveira de Faria (Confirmed)

Affiliation:

Depto. de Eng. Nuclear, UFMG,  Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Title:

Investigation of Photoluminescent Properties of PBAT Copolymers Induced by High Energy Radiation

Dr. Stephen J Butler (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Durham University, Department of Chemistry, Durham, UK
Title:

EuroTracker Dyes: Highly Emissive Europium Complexes as Alternative Organelle Stains for Live Cell Imaging

Dr. Olivier Galangau (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, NAIST. Talayama, Ikoma, Japan
Title:

Photochromic properties of newly designed symmetrical and non-symmetrical perfluoro-diarylethenes: influence of the benzothiophene

Prof. Dr. Norihisa KOBAYASHI (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Department of Image and Materials Science, Chiba University, Japan
Title:

Reflective and emissive dual mode display with electrochromism and electrochemiluminescence

Dr. Alcindo A. Dos Santos (Confirmed)

Affiliation: Locsin, Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Title:

Selenium and Tellurium Fluorescent Probes for Reactive Oxygen Species Determination and Cell Labeling