Prof. Stępień’s lecture inaugurates the Young Investigator Seminar Series

On September, 4^th we were pleased to welcome Prof. Marcin Stępień from the University of Wrocław, Poland. After PhD with Prof. Lechosłas Latos-Grażyński (the University of Wrocław ) and a successful postdoctoral stay with Professor Jonathan L. Sessler (the University of Texas), he returned to Poland and became an associate professor and a group leader in 2015. From this time on, Prof. Stępień is exploring the synthesis, spectroscopy, and theory of nanographenes, aromatic macrocycles, and highly strained organic molecules. His achievements in these fields have already received an international recognition. In Würzburg, Prof. Stępień met young researcher and junior group leaders working at the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry and presented his work on “Bending and Fusion: Synthetic Approaches to Tunable Aromatic Chromophores”. His lecture inaugurated the Young Investigator Seminar Series of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry. The key objective of this initiative is to bring junior group leaders, postdocs and advanced PhD students from the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry in contact with outstanding but still young researchers from abroad and to establish scientific networks at an early stage of their career. The seminar with Prof. Stępień was organized by Dr. Agnieszka Nowak-Król who graduated from the Institute of Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw in 2013 and recently started her independent career at the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry in Würzburg.

 

Link to two recent papers by Prof. Marcin Stępień

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00076

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201705715/full

 

Link to two recent papers by Dr. Agnieszka Nowak-Król

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201705445/abstract

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201701922/full