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The Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ), a joint research centre of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), is co-organising the 29th edition of the International Conference PhotoIUPAC 2024, together with McGill University in Montreal (Canada). Endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), it will be held from 14 to 19 July at the València Conference Centre.

PhotoIUPAC is an international conference held biennially for more than 60 years. The symposium focuses on developments in photochemistry, i.e. chemistry derived from light.

In this edition, more than 500 participants will present the most cutting-edge scientific advances in this field, crucial to addressing the global challenges set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the European Green Plan, such as the reduction of emissions, new waste treatments, water decontamination processes and safer and more sustainable methods for obtaining chemical compounds.

PhotoIUPAC 2024 will provide insight into the most cutting-edge international research into the conversion of light energy, the application of photochemistry in nanomaterials, molecular probes for detection and imaging, photocatalysis and synthetic photochemistry, photobiology and photomedicine, and computational photochemistry.

"We are proud to welcome more than 500 researchers, including some of the world's leading researchers in the field of photochemistry. It is also an opportunity to learn about and enjoy this branch of science and the contributions it can make to the great challenges facing humanity today. And for the ITQ (UPV-CSIC), for the UPV and the city of Valencia, it is an opportunity to show we have world-renowned researchers in this field,' says Mª Luisa Marín, ITQ researcher and co-organiser of PhotoIUPAC 2024

Top international speakers

The Conference will be attended by eight world-renowned plenary researchers, including Hermenegildo García, Researcher at the ITQ (UPV-CSIC), whose contributions to the development of heterogeneous phase catalysts have served to advance in areas such as sustainable chemistry, renewable energies, atmospheric decontamination and carbon dioxide capture.

Other participants include Fred Brouwer, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), whose research focuses on the development of new devices in the context of nanotechnology; Johan Hofkens, a researcher at the University of Leuven (Belgium) whose work focuses on the field of perovskites, materials capable of collecting and storing light, particularly relevant for renewable energies; Corey Stephenson, who currently holds the Canada Research Chair of Excellence in Innovative Synthetic Methods for Translational Chemistry in Vancouver (Canada); Chihaya Adachi, Director of the Research Centre for Organic Electronics and Photonics at Kyushu University (Japan), where Adachi is researching the fabrication and characterisation of light-harvesting-based optical and electrical devices; Jennifer Dionne, a researcher at Stanford University (USA), whose research focuses on the development of nanophotonic methods to control chemical and biological processes at the nanoscale; Marina Kuimova, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Imperial College London (UK); and Vivian Yam, Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor of Chemistry and Energy and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong.