Relatore: Prof. Ben Feringa
Titolo: Smart Materials, from molecular switches to motors
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Biografia
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
Il seminario rientra nell'iniziativa Breakthroughs in Materials Science, organizzata dal Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali dell’Università di Milano – Bicocca. Questa iniziativa propone un ciclo di interventi da parte scienziati di fama internazionale, i cui recenti studi hanno promosso e consentito una profonda evoluzione nel campo della Scienza dei Materiali, con grandi ricadute anche a livello tecnologico. Aventi carattere divulgativo, i seminari sono rivolti a docenti, studenti e ad un vasto pubblico interessato a temi scientifici e tecnologici. Oltre alla partecipazione in presenza, sarà reso disponibile il collegamento in streaming.