Lecturer: Prof. Ben Feringa
Title: Smart Materials, from molecular switches to motors
Where
Room: Auditorium, U12 Building, Via Vizzola 5
Streaming: to be defined
Timetable: to be defined
Biography
Ben L. Feringa obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under the guidance of Professor Hans Wynberg. After working as a research scientist at Shell in the Netherlands and the UK, he was appointed lecturer and in 1988 full professor at the University of Groningen and named the Jacobus H. van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences in 2004. He was elected Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member and former vice-president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, member of the German Academy Leopoldina, the Chinese National Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Royal Society (London)and foreign Member of the US National Academy. Ben Feringa is member of European Research Council ERC. In 2008 he was appointed Academy Professor and was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands. Feringa’s research has been recognized with a number of awards including the Koerber European Science Award (2003), the Spinoza Award (2004), the Prelog gold medal (2005), the Norrish Award of the ACS (2007), the Paracelsus medal (2008), the Chirality medal (2009),the RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award (2011), Humboldt award (2012), the Nagoya gold medal (2013), ACS Cope Scholar Award 2015, Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize (2015), the August-Wilhelm-von-Hoffman Medal (2016), The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Tetrahedron Prize 2017 and the Euchems gold medal.
Feringa’s research interest includes stereochemistry, homogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, molecular switches and motors, self-assembly, molecular nanosystems and photopharmacology.
Breakthroughs in Materials Science
This event is part of the series of seminars "Breakthroughs in Materials Science", organized by the Department of Materials Science of the University of Milano - Bicocca, brings together lectures by internationally renowned scientists, whose recent studies have promoted a profound evolution in the field of Materials Science. Presented with an informative nature, the seminars are aimed at researchers, students, and a wide audience of people interested in scientific topics. In addition to in-person participation, the streaming connection will be made available.