Invited Speakers:

• Professor Dirk Guldi (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nürnberg) - Application of Advanced Emission Spectroscopic Means in Solar Energy Conversion Schemes

• Professor Tobias Werner (University of Applied Sciences Mannheim) - A closer look at edible oils: the first derivative of multidimensional fluorescence topographs

• Professor Wolfgang Zinth (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich) - Time-resolved spectroscopy of damage formation in DNA

• Professor David Birch (University of Strathclyde) - Intrinsic and extrinsic fluorescence probe photophysics for melanin and beta amyloid

• Dr Yu Chen (University of Strathclyde) - Gold nanoparticle luminescence and applications

• Professor Claus Seidel (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) - Fundamentals of Fluorescence

• Professor Alexander Eychmüller (TU Dresden) - Nanocrystals: past and present

• Dr. Colin Stedmon (Technical University of Denmark) - Shedding light on a black box: applying fluorescence spectroscopy to studying organic matter in aquatic environments

• Dr. Carlos Lodeiro (University of Vigo) - Fluorescent Materials, Dyes and Chemosensors for Sensing: In solution, in vitro and in vivo studies

• Professor Ifor Samuel (University of St. Andrews) - Time-resolved luminescence of organic semiconductors

Additional talks by HORIBA Scientific staff:

• Dr. Elodie Ly-Morin – Label-free monitoring of biomolecular interactions using Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging

• Dr. Graham Hungerford – In-situ formation of silver nanostructures in a silica sol-gel derived film for potential sensing applications studied using time-resolved fluorescence microscopy