Events

Biophotoelectrochemical Systems: Solar Energy Conversion and Fundamental Investigations

29^th – 31^st March 2023

School of Divinity, St John’s College, Cambridge

Organising committee: Jenny Zhang (University of Cambridge), Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge) & Nicolas Plumeré (Technical University Munich)
Our sister website at the University of Cambridge: Biophotoelectrochemical Workshop 2023 | The Zhang Group (cam.ac.uk).

TOPICS

• Latest developments in protein-film and biofilm photoelectrochemistry, semi-artificial photosynthesis, biophotovoltaics, biological production of solar fuels and chemicals
• New materials and characterisation tools for the above areas
• Insights into degradation pathways (photodegradation, reaction with reactive oxygen species, mediator toxicity…) and strategies to enhance stability
• Short-circuiting pathways at the bio-material interface (charge carrier recombination, redox cycling, non-natural electron transfer pathways…)
• Engineering challenges – using protein-film and biofilm electrodes for practical applications (electron transfer bottlenecks, the voltage/recombination dilemma, bioprocessing challenges…)

Speakers

Barry Bruce (University of Tennessee, USA)
Julea Butt (University of East Anglia, UK)
Dave Cliffel (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Jenny Emnéus (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Gianluca Farinola (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Bari, Italy)
Vincent Friebe (Technical University Munich, Germany)
John Golbeck (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Christopher Howe (University of Cambridge, UK)
Lars Jeuken (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Anne Jones (Arizona State University, USA)
Mike Jones (University of Bristol, UK)
Joanna Kargul (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Christophe Léger (Aix Marseille Université, France)
Frédéric Lemaître (Sorbonne Université, France)
Fred Lisdat (Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany)
Shelley Minteer (University of Utah, USA)
Shuji Nakanishi (Osaka University, Japan)
Swee Ching Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Massimo Trotta (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Bari, Italy)
Peidong Yang (University of California, Berkeley, USA)