The year 2000 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize
in photochemistry was awarded to Dr. habil. Dirk Michael Guldi, Radiation
Laboratory, University of Notre Dame (USA). The award ceremony took place
at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on February
27, 2001. It constituted a highlight of the first Joint
Meeting of the Italian, French and Swiss Photochemistry Groups held
in Lausanne during February 25-27, 2001.
The lecture presented by the awardee was a model of excellent scientific
standard and didactic clarity. It has been published in the November 2001
issue of the EPA Newsletter.
Dr. Dirk Guldi (right) with his diploma in hand receives a cheque from Dr. Silvio Canonica, treasurer of the EPA.
Dirk Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi was born in 1963 in Cologne (Germany). He studied Chemistry at the University of Cologne, where he obtained his degree in 1988. He then made a PhD thesis in the same institution under the guidance of Prof. Wasgestian on the subject of the electrochemical and photochemical properties of chromium III-cyclam complexes, and got his doctorate in 1991. Dr Guldi then spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards in Gaithersburg in the US, before returning to Germany where he worked since 1992 at the Hahn-Meitner Institut in Berlin. In 1995, he crossed again the Atlantic to occupy a position at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of Notre Dame, where he prepared an habilitation thesis, that was accepted in 1999 by the University of Leipzig. After working in Notre Dame, where most of his studies for which he has received the Grammaticakis prize have been carried out, Dirk Michael Guldi is now professor of physical chemistry at the University of Erlangen.
"The Grammaticakis-Neuman Prize 2000 is awarded to Dr. habil. Dirk M. Guldi for an outstanding scientific contribution in the study of the photochemistry and photophysics of fullerenes and their derivatives and their implementation in donor-acceptor ensembles".
