Warsaw PhD School in Natural and BioMedical Sciences

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Advanced Lecture Series – 17-18/10/2024

The Warsaw Doctoral School in Natural and Biomedical Sciences and the Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS cordially invites you to a Advanced Lecture Series.

The talk is given by Prof. Tomáš Šolomek (Van‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

When and where?

LECTURE SERIES: October 17, 2024 (Thursday) – conference room IOC PAS, Warsaw, Kasprzaka 44/52
2:30 – 4:00 pm, The basics of the electronic structure of organic diradicaloids
4:15 – 5:45 pm, Selected examples of their reactivity accessed by using light or heat
Registration at aleksandra.butkiewicz@icho.edu.pl

OPEN LECTURE: October 18, 2024 (Friday) – 10 am – aula IOC/ICP PAS, Warsaw, Kasprzaka 44/52
“Topography and Topology: Unusual Playground for Chromophores” Prof. Tomáš Šolomek

About the lecturer

Tomáš Šolomek was born in Slovakia and chose chemistry as a career due to a passionate chemistry teacher that he had in the high-school. He obtained his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in organic photochemistry at the Masaryk University, Czechia. In 2014, he completed his PhD degree in chemistry under co-tutorship at the Masaryk University (Prof. Petr Klán) and the University of Fribourg (Prof. Thomas Bally), Switzerland, combining experiments and theory to understand the nature of reactive intermediates generated by light or heat. He then became an Experientia Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Basel with Prof. Michal Juríček. From 2015-2017, he was a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (USA) in the group of Prof. Michael Wasielewski.
Dr. Šolomek founded his independent research group at the University of Basel as a fellow of the Ambizione program of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018), exploring porous covalent organic cages with built-in photo- and redox-active units. After receiving an ERC Starting grant TOPOCLIP (2021), he became a non-tenure track assistant professor at the University of Bern, where his team worked on the stable molecular representations of topologically complex carbon nanostructures. From January 2023, Dr Šolomek became a tenure-track assistant professor at Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences in Amsterdam.
In his research, Tomáš Šolomek aims to improve the design of more efficient and sustainable organic optoelectronic materials and organic photocages. To accomplish this, he blends the synthesis of organic molecules with the use of spectroscopy and computational chemistry.

This event is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, grant no. BPI/STE/2021/1/00034/U/00001