Swiss Photochemistry Symposium 2022

The symposium was an initiative of the Photochemistry Section of the Swiss Chemical Society to promote the exchange within the photochemistry community in Switzerland and beyond.

The event comprised short contributions from all areas of photochemistry (please apply during the registration process) as well as three invited lectures.

Invited Lectures provided by:

Prof. Julia Weinstein, Uni Sheffield, UK
Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes, EPFL Lausanne, University of Zurich as of Feb 2022
Prof. Ferdinand Grozema, TU Delft, Netherlands

Best Presentation Awards

ChemPhotoChem awarded the best contributed talk with the Best Oral Contribution Award which came along with a certificate and a cash amount of CHF 250.00.
Helvetica sponsored the Best Poster Presentation Award. The jury selected 3 winners who were awarded with a certificate and a cash check of CHF 150.00 each.

	The award for the best short talk was given to *Dr. Ricardo Fernández-Terán*, University of Sheffield, UK «Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Hydrides: Couplings, Solvation and Proton-Coupled Electron»
	The prizes for the best posters were awarded to Isabelle Holzer, University of Bern «Using in-situ time-resolved Vis-NIR spectro-electrochemistry to study kinetics in IDTBT polymers»
	Dr. Marina Russo, University of Zurich «Photouncaging of Carboxylic Acids from Cyanine Dyes with Near-Infrared Light» and
	Dr. Cesare Berton, EPFL Lausanne «Performance boost of a merocyanine photoacid by supramolecular encapsulation»