Invited Speakers
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Plenary speakers | |
 | Michael Grätzel (EPFL, Switzerland) Nanostructured Photosystems for the Generation of Fuels and Electricity from Sunlight |
 | Nate Lewis |
 | Robert Schlögl |
 | John Turner (NREL, USA) Materials and Economics for Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting Systems |
 | Anders Hagfeldt (Uppsala University, Sweden) Design Rules to High-Efficiency Mesoscopic Solar Cells |
 | Wolfgang Schuhmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) High-throughput combinatorial screening of semiconductor libraries using photocurrent and photocurrent-spectroscopy in an optical scanning droplet cell |
 | Leif Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) Mechanisms of artificial photosynthesis: controlling electron transfer and molecular catalysis |
 | Ib Chorkendorff (Technical University of Denmark) Elements of a tandem design for water splitting: Combining electrocatalysis with semiconductors |
 | Nam-Gyu Park (Sungkyunkwan University, South-Korea) Methylammonium and formamidium lead iodide perovskite solar cells with efficiencies exceeding 16% |
 | David Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Hybrid Organic / Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells: how do they work and what are they good for? |
 | Wonyong Choi (Postech, South-Korea) Photocatalysis of Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Some Outstanding Characteristics of Photooxidants and Reactivity |
 | Prashant V. Kamat (University of Notre Dame, USA) Hole Transfer Processes in Quantum Dot and Organometalhalide Solar Cells |
 | Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Development of visible-light driven photocatalysts for CO2 reduction |
 | Avner Rothschild (Technion, Israel) Ultrathin film Fe2O3 photoanodes for solar energy conversion and storage |
Keynote speakers | |
| Mary Archer (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK) The IPS Conference Series |
 | Bruce Parkinson (University of Wyoming, USA) Progress in Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion |
 | Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge, UK) Photocatalytic H2 generation with Molecular Catalysts on Dye-Sensitized Semiconductors |
 | Licheng Sun (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Solar Fuels - From Molecular Catalysts to Functional Devices |
 | Taro Yamada (University of Tokyo, Japan) Oxynitrides and oxysulfides for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting |
 | Dunwei Wang (Boston College, USA) Observation and Alterations of Surface States on Hematite Photoelectrodes |
 | Holger Dau (Free University Berlin, Germany) How amorphous catalysts based on earth-abundant metals facilitate water oxidation |
 | Shannon Boettcher (University of Oregon, USA) Semiconductor-electrocatalyst contacts: theory, experiment, and applications to solar water photoelectrolysis |
 | Matthew Kanan (Stanford University, USA) Recycling CO2 |
 | Sophia Haussener (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland) Design Guidelines For Practical Photoelectrochemical Reactors |
 | Alexei Emeline (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) Interplay between physical and chemical events in photoprocesses in heterogeneous systems |
| Marc Koper (Leiden University, The Netherlands Electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide reduction |
 | Harry Tuller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Influence of oxidation state on charge carrier density and trap state occupancy in Ti doped Fe2O3+δ |
 | Peter Strasser (Technical University of Berlin, Germany Sunlight, free electrons, and molecular bonds: the electrocatalysis of solar fuels |
 | Peter Vesborg (Technical University of Denmark Protective coatings for water-splitting photoelectrodes |
 | Jan Rossmeisl (Technical University of Denmark) Electrocatalysis at the atomic scale |
 | Hiroshi Irie (University of Yamanashi, Japan) Photocatalytic Water-Splitting under Visible light Irradiation |
 | Michael Wark (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Photocatalytic overall water splitting with mixed metal oxides: Effects of stoichiometry optimization and nanocomposite formation |
 | Jesse Benck (Stanford University, USA) Designing active and stable hydrogen evolution catalysts and photocathodes for solar hydrogen production |
