Raman Workshop

Prof. Dr. Takuji Adachi
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Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Takuji (Taki) Adachi received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. He gained a variety of expertise during his postdoc experiences in Germany, New York, and France. Since 2019, he has been a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Geneva. His team develops various in situ optical spectroscopy tools to understand the fundamental mechanisms of morphology formation.

6 June 2025, 11.00-11.45: In Situ Time-Resolved Raman Microspectroscopy to Study One Crystallization at a Time

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bocklitz
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Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Germany)

Thomas Bocklitz leads the Photonic Data Science department at Leibniz IPHT and holds a professorship at the University of Jena. He specialises in data science and artificial intelligence for spectroscopy and microscopy, with a focus on machine learning and chemometrics for photonic data. Author of over 160 papers, he has received accolades including the Kaiser-Friedrich Research Prize (2018) and an ERC Consolidator Grant (2023) for the STAIN-IT project.

4 June 2025, 11.15-12.00: Combining Vibrational Spectroscopic Techniques With AI Based Data Pipelines to Maximize the Knowledge Extraction

Dr. Rubén Esteban
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Materials Physics Center (Spain)

Rubén Esteban did his PhD work on the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, receiving his title from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2007. After postdoctoral and fellow positions at Ecole Centrale Paris, CSIC, NIST and Donostia International Physics Center, he is currently a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council CSIC, where he works on nanophotonics and molecular spectroscopy with a focus on the demonstration of quantum effects.

6 June 2025, 09.00-09.45: Collective Effects in Surface Effects Raman Spectroscopy

external page Prof. Dr. Karen Faulds
Bionanotechnology and Analytical Research Section,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde (UK)

Karen Faulds is a Distinguished Professor specialising in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and Raman techniques for bioanalytical applications. She has published over 200 papers, secured £20M in funding, and holds 7 patents. Her research has earned prestigious awards, including the Charles Mann Award (2019) and the RSC Mid-Career Analytical Award (2021). She serves as an Associate Editor for Analyst and co-Editor-in-Chief of RSC Advances.

5 June 2025, 09.45-10.30: Sensitive and Selective Bioanalysis Using SERS and SESORS

Dr. Harald Fitzek
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Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Harald Fitzek started his work on Raman microscopy in 2014 with his PhD thesis on “Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” at the Graz University of Technology. After finishing his PhD thesis in 2018, he became a senior scientist at the Graz Centre for Electron microscopy (ZFE), focusing on the correlation of Raman microscopy with all aspects of electron microscopy and simultaneously building up insitu electrochemistry Raman methods for the analysis of energy materials.

6 June 2025, 13.45-14.30: Correlating Raman and Electron Microscopy – Usual and Unusual Applications

Dr. Carsten Flake
Energy and Process Systems Engineering
ETH Zurich

6 June 2025, 14.45-15.30: Raman Spectroscopy Lighting the Way in Chemical Thermodynamics

external page Prof. Dr. Janina Kneipp
Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Janina Kneipp is a distinguished German scientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on surface-enhanced Raman scattering and plasmonic enhancement in multi-modal micro-spectroscopy. Prof. Kneipp has been honoured with several awards, including the Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy in 2010 and the Caroline von Humboldt Professorship in 2019. She is also a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.

5 June 2025, 11.00-11.45: Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and the Characterization of Cells and Biophysical Models

Prof. Dr. Ralph Spolenak
Laboratory for Nanometallurgy
Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

Prof. Dr. Renato Zenobi
Zenobi Group at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich

Renato Zenobi is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at ETH Zurich, renowned for his work in mass spectrometry and his invention of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. He is developing a mass spectrometric "chemical nose" with clinicians at the University Hospital Zurich that could revolutionise medical diagnosis. Awarded numerous fellowships, he received the 2017 ERC Advanced Grant, the 2019 ETH "Golden Owl" for teaching, and the 2023 ACS Award in Spectrochemical Analysis.

5 June 2025, 09.00-09.45: Recent Progress in Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy