International Conference on Photophysics and Photochemistry

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Description

The call for application is now closed.

This conference aims to bring together global experts to discuss advances in photophysics and photochemistry with a focus on renewable energy, light-matter interactions, and interdisciplinary innovation.

The conference aims to foster collaboration between theorists and experimentalists in the fields of photophysics and photochemistry, with a strong focus on the participation of researchers from developing and underrepresented communities. It is designed to provide a dynamic and interactive platform for in-depth discussions between established experts and early-career researchers and students. The scientific program will cover a broad range of topics, including green synthetic methodologies, photo(electro)catalysis, carrier transport phenomena, single-junction/tandem photovoltaics, CO₂ reduction reactions, and advanced spectroscopic techniques. Distinctively, the conference emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration by uniting specialists from both photophysics and photochemistry. The program will feature invited lectures, contributed talks, and poster sessions.

Topics:

Artificial photosynthesis
Photo(electro)catalytic water splitting
Carbon dioxide and nitrogen reduction
Photoelectrochemical cells
Charge carrier recombination pathways
Photovoltaics (monolithic/tandem, bulk/anomalous), LED, photodetectors
Photoluminescence spectroscopy
Polarization-sensitive optoelectronic devices
Nonlinear optics
Valleytronics
Quantum Emitters
Quantum-confined excitonic systems
Exciton-polariton transport
Theoretical and experimental synergy in energy materials
Discovery of Photovoltaic materials using AI and ML

Directors:
A. ALAM, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
N. SINGH, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates

Speakers:

S. Ahmad, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
S. Bhattacharya, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India
T. C. Nagaiah, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
S. Chakraborty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad (Prayagraj), India
F. Chuan-Chuang, NSYSU, Taiwan
D. Das Sarma, Indian Institute of Science, India
T. Das, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India
S. Dutta Choudhury, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
D. Ghosh, School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
S. Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
M. Jain, Indian Institute of Science, India
M. Kabir, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
D. Kabra, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India
D. Khushalani, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
A. Kumar Chandiran, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai, India
S. Kumar Gupta, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Y. Liu, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Singapore
C. Narayana, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
P. R. Nair, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
K. S. Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
S. K. Pati, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
B. Singh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
A. Yella, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
U. Waghmare, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
S. Ray, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, India
A. Rahman, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India
B. Sanyal, Uppsala University, Sweden
S. Tao, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
K. Polychronopoulou, Khalifa University, UAE
S. Patil, Indian Institute of Science, India
B. Pathak, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
K. Tarafder, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
F. Vasilievich Kusmartsev, Khalifa University, UAE

Research abstracts: In the application form, all applicants are asked to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below under 'Material'.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries.

There will be no registration fee from the attendees participating from developing countries, but nominal registration fee may apply from the developed and host country participants.

Please see the conference website for further details.

Material

Abstract Templates Booklets Poster

International Conference on Photophysics and Photochemistry | (smr 4189)

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Thursday, 26 March 2026
- 04:00 - 07:00 Session Chair: Swapan K. Pati (JNCASR Bengaluru)
  - 04:00 Registration 30'
  - 04:30 Welcome Address by Organizers and Head of Department 30'
  - 05:00 Polar Half-Metal and Triferroic Insulator based on PbMnO3: First-principles Theory 30'
    
    Speaker: Umesh V. Waghmare (JNCASR Bengaluru)
  - 05:30 Graph Neural Network for High-Throughput Screening of Nanocluster Electrocatalysts 30'
    
    Speaker: Biswarup Pathak (IIT Indore)
  - 06:00 Computational Design of Double Half-Heusler Alloys: Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning 30'
    
    Speaker: Alexey V. Lukoyanov (IMP UB RAS, Russia)
  - 06:30 Tea Break 30'
- 07:00 - 09:45 Session Chair: M. Aslam (IIT Bombay)
  - 07:00 Advanced Energy Materials for Clean Energy Conversion 30'
    
    Speaker: Tharamani C. Nagaiah (IIT Ropar)
  - 07:30 Catalytic (Electro- and Photo-) Pathways for Sustainable Carbon Utilization and Energy Conversion 30'
    
    Speaker: Deepa Khushalani (TIFR Mumbai)
  - 08:00 Designing MXene-based 2D Heterostructures for High-Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A First-Principles Study 30'
    
    Speaker: Swastibrata Bhattacharya (BITS Pilani Goa)
  - 08:30 Photography Session 15'
  - 08:45 Lunch break 1h0'
- 09:45 - 11:15 Oral Presentations (10+2 minutes each) [5 talks]
  - 10:45 Tea Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:15 1st Poster Session [41 posters]
- 12:15 - 17:00 Session Chair: Avinash Mahajan (IIT Bombay)
  - 12:15 Photocatalytic Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction by Janus MXenes 30'
    
    Speaker: Subhradip Ghosh (IIT Guwahati)
  - 12:45 "Title: Mn2+Emission in Semiconductor Nanocrystal Hosts: Mn2+Emission in Semiconductor Nanocrystal Hosts: Now You See It, and Now You Don't [Plenary Talk]" 45'
    
    Speaker: Dipankar Das Sarma (IISc Bengaluru)
  - 15:30 Dinner at Padma Vihar, IIT Bombay 1h30'
Friday, 27 March 2026
- 05:00 - 07:00 Session Chair: Samit K. Ray (IIT Kharagpur)
  - 05:00 Mechanism of Singlet fission in Carotenoids 30'
    
    Speaker: Debashree Ghosh (IACS Kolkata)
  - 05:30 Computational Modelling of a few Heterogeneous Electrocatalytic Reactions 30'
    
    Speaker: Swapan K. Pati (JNCASR Bengaluru)
  - 06:00 Light-Driven Thermal Landscapes: Imaging Dissipative Dynamics in Confined Nanosystems 30'
    
    Speaker: Adarsh B. Vasista (IISER Bhopal)
  - 06:30 Tea Break 30'
- 07:00 - 09:30 Session Chair: Debashree Ghosh (IACS Kolkata)
  - 07:00 Optical and Charge Transport Properties of Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Multifunctional Devices 30'
    
    Speaker: Samit K. Ray (IIT Kharagpur)
  - 07:30 Emergent Chirality: From Electrons to Phonons in Quantum Materials 30'
    
    Speaker: Bahadur Singh (TIFR Mumbai)
  - 08:00 Electronic Structure and Transition Pathway Prediction in Lower Dimensional Condensed Matter Systems 30'
    
    Speaker: Tisita Das (HRI Prayagraj)
  - 08:30 Lunch Break 1h0'
- 09:30 - 11:30 Oral Presentations (10+2 minutes each) [10 talks]
- 11:30 - 13:00 Tea Break & 2nd Poster Session [42 posters]
- 13:00 - 17:00 Session Chair: Manish Jain (IISc Bengaluru)
  - 13:00 Graph Neural Network for High-Throughput Screening of Nanocluster Electrocatalysts 30'
    
    Speaker: Biplab Sanyal (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  - 13:30 Rational Design of Luminescent Materials via Defect and Dopant Engineering for Emerging Photonic Technologies 30'
    
    Speaker: Santosh K. Gupta (BARC Mumbai)
  - 14:30 Conference Dinner 2h30'
Saturday, 28 March 2026
- 05:00 - 07:00 Session Chair: Atikur Rahman (IISER Pune)
  - 05:00 Biexcitons in Materials 30'
    
    Speaker: Manish Jain (IISc Bengaluru)
  - 05:30 Unlocking New Chemical Space via Selective Catalysis 30'
    
    Speaker: Debabrata Maiti (IIT Bombay)
  - 06:00 Rashba and Excitonic Physics in Emerging Materials and Correlations with Light-Matter Interaction: A Computational Insight 30'
    
    Speaker: Sudip Chakraborty (HRI Prayagraj)
  - 06:30 Tea Break 30'
- 07:00 - 09:30 Session Chair: Sudip Chakraborty (HRI Prayagraj)
  - 07:00 Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy Study of Excitons in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors 30'
    
    Speaker: Sandip Ghosh (TIFR Mumbai)
  - 07:30 Polymer Perovskite Composites for Energy Harvesting Applications 30'
    
    Speaker: Aswani Yella (IIT Bombay)
  - 08:00 Effect of Chemical Substituents, Cavitands and Hybrid Photonic Materials on Photoluminescence Phenomena 30'
    
    Speaker: Sharmistha Dutta Choudhury (BARC Mumbai)
  - 08:30 Lunch Break 1h0'
- 09:30 - 11:30 Session Chair: Amrita Bhattacharya (IIT Bombay)
  - 09:30 Tuning Optoelectronic Properties of 2D Materials through Defect Engineering 30'
    
    Speaker: Atikur Rahman (IISER Pune)
  - 10:00 Efficiency Roll-off and Sub Band Gap Operation of Perovskite Light Emitting Diodes 30'
    
    Speaker: Pradeep R. Nair (IIT Bombay)
  - 10:30 Sb2S3 Photoelectrodes for Advanced Two-Electrode and Three-Electrode Photo-Batteries 30'
    
    Speaker: Shahab Ahmad (IIT Jodhpur)
  - 11:00 Tea Break 30'
- 11:30 - 13:30 Session Chair: K. G. Suresh (IIT Bombay)
  - 11:30 Probing Spin-Phonon Coupling in Antiferromagnetic Oxides 30'
    
    Speaker: Dipanshu Bansal (IIT Bombay)
  - 12:00 TBA 30'
    
    Speaker: Aravind K. Chandiran (IIT Madras)
  - 12:30 Halide Perovskite Semiconductors for Tandem Solar 30'
    
    Speaker: Dinesh Kabra (IIT Bombay)
  - 13:00 Awards Ceremony and Concluding Remarks 30'