School of Chemistry - Seminar Series
Research Seminar Programme Dublin Chemistry, Semester 2 (Hilary term) January to April 2026. Unless otherwise specified with an *, seminars will take place on Thursdays at 12:00 noon at the Chemistry Building in the LARGE Lecture Theatre.
Seminars last updated on 04/02/2026
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Discipline / Topic |
|
| 22/01/2026 | Prof. Sean Kavanagh University of Cambridge |
Modelling Defect Energy Surfaces with DFT and Machine Learning | ||
| 29/01/2026 | Malcom Kadodwala University of Glasgow |
Creating and Measuring Chemical Asymmetry with Chiral Light | ||
| 05/02/2026 | Prof. Conor Crawford Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie - Berlin, Germany |
Chemical glycobiology of sulfation | ||
| 12/02/2026 | Prof. Johannes Klein University of Groningen |
Designing Catalysis: From Biomimetic to Bioinspired Approaches - New Directions in Metallo-Porphyrin Oxidation Chemistry | ||
| 19/02/2026 | Prof. Sandy Kilpatrick University of Leicester |
Bio-Inspired Bimetallics: Synthesis, Structure and Sustainable Catalysis | ||
| 26/02/2026 | Prof. Fabienne Demoulin Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University |
Phthalocyanines: one-of-a-kind porphyrinoids | ||
| 12/03/2026 | Prof. Isabel Correira University of Lisbon |
TBC | ||
| 19/03/2026 | Dr. Sofia Diaz-Moreno Diamond Light Source |
TBC | ||
| 26/03/2026 | Prof. Matthew Langton University of Oxford |
Supramolecular ion transporters – synthetic tools for engineering functional lipid bilayer membranes | ||
| 02/04/2026 | Prof Dara Fitzpatrick University College, Cork |
BARDS; A Sound Approach to Chemical Analysis, listening in on Epimers, Polymorphs and Chemical Reactions’ | ||
| 09/04/2026 | Prof. Tristan Petit Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / Université de Haute-Alsace |
Chemical imaging of (electro)chemical processes in MXene down to single flakes | ||



