“Catalysis for Artificial Photosynthesis”
The future needs of the planet in terms of energy and environment place catalysis at the forefront of many scientific domains. The opportunities for artificial photosynthesis and relevant reactions in this aspect are tremendous to address future energy crisis. The solar energy conversion faces academic and industrial challenges at the fundamental and applied levels. There is obviously a need for a very deep scientific approach in the multidisciplinary fields of catalysis, material science and solid state physics. The needs are a better understanding of complex reaction process and structure, energetics and lifetimes of the materials of interest.
This year KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) would like to organize the symposium dedicated to catalysis for artificial photosynthesis studies in a timely manner, particularly when Middle East may be a major player at the global level.
The KCC Symposium will take place between Monday, February 1 and Wednesday, February 3. All members of the KAUST research community, academic community as well as external industry partners and Saudi Universities are invited to attend this important event.
Date :
February 1-3, 2016
Time :
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Venue :
Conference Center, Building 19, Level 3
Confirmed speakers:
- Detlef Bahnemann, Univ. Hannover, Germany
- Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Shunichi Fukuzumi, Ewha Womans University, Korea, Meijo Univ., Osaka Univ., Japan
- Etsuko Fujita, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
- Feng Jiao, Univ. Dalaware, USA
- Marc Koper, Leiden Univ., The Netherlands
- Tangui Le Bahers, 1 Universite de Lyon, France
- Antoni Llobet, ICIQ, Spain
- Omar F. Mohammed, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Takeshi Morikawa, Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan
- Frank Osterloh, UC Davis, USA
- Jan Rossmeisl, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark
- Kevin Sivula, EPFL, Switzerland
- Licheng Sun, KTH, Sweden
- John Turner, NREL, USA
- Fatwa Abdi, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany.
For more information visit:
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/events/kcc-2016/.
Contact:
The event is organized by KAUST Catalysis Center with financial support from the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research.
