At the invitation of Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. František Hartl from University of Reading paid a visit to Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC),CAS on Apr. 19, 2011 and gave a wonderful lecture entitled Photonic behaviour of complexes with multiple redox centres.

In the lecture, Prof. František Hartl discussed the relation between electrochemistry and electron transfer based photonic behavior and demonstrated on selected examples from their research, documenting the merits, limitations and applications of this approach.

Prof. František Hartl graduated in 1985 as “Rerum Naturalium Doctoris” (RNDr) at Charles University in Prague. In Reading, he is the head of a Spectroelectrochemistry Laboratory established in 2009.As documented by ca 130 scientific papers, he is a flexible chemist active in various areas, in particular development and application of spectro-electrochemical techniques at variable temperatures (with several commercially successful cell designs), photochemical and redox activation of transition metal clusters, unusual redox states and tuneable reactivity within redox series of coordination and organometallic compounds, photochromic and luminescent materials, molecular wires, redox switches of photo-induced electron and energy transfer, time-resolved spectroscopy, redox catalysis.