Contact Information: Prof. Dr. Gion Calzaferri Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Berne Freiestrasse 3 CH-3012 Bern E-Mail: gion.calzaferri@iac.unibe.ch Phone: +41 31 631 42 36 Fax: +41 31 631 39 94 Secretary Office: Beatrice Niederhauser E-Mail: beatrice.niederhauser@iac.unibe.ch Phone: +41 31 631 42 26 Fax: +41 31 631 39 94

	PhD thesis; examination for a doctorate, chemistry as main subject, theoretical physics and mathematics as subsidiary subjects; University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1971.
	Postdoc at the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel (Edgar Heilbronner, Rolf Gleiter); 1971 - 72.
	Physical-chemical research in connection with pharmacy, Ciba-Geigy Basel, Switzerland; 1972 - 73.
	Senior assistant, lecturer, venia docendi (1973-86), associate professor of Physical Chemistry (1987) at the Institute of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry of the University of Berne, Switzerland.
	Full professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland; 1997.
	Research stays at the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1984; at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, with Roald Hoffmann, 1990 and 2000; invited professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, 2000, 2001 and 2010; visiting professor at the University of Münster, Germany, fall/winter 2007/08.
	Weissberger-Williams Lectureship Award, Eastman Kodak, USA, 2006
	Theodor Förster Award, 2007
	Current: Emeritus professor of physical chemistry.
	Research interests: - Supramolecularly organized molecules, clusters and complexes in zeolite cavities. - Artificial antenna systems for light harvesting, transport, and trapping. - Photochemical transformation and storage of solar energy.

            Member of the Swiss Commission for the use of solar energy, KNS; 1981-1999.

            Chairman of the Bernese Chemical Society; 1987 - 89.

            Chairman of the Swiss Society for Photochemistry and Photophysics; 1988 - 89.

            Member of the International Organizing Committee of the "International Conference

            on Photochemical Transformation and Storage of Solar Energy"; 1988 - 1996.

            Organizer and Chairman of the

10th International Conference on Photochemical Transformation and Storage of

            Solar Energy, IPS-10, Interlaken, Switzerland; July 24 - 29 1994.

            Member of the Editorial Board Research on Chemical Intermediates; since 1991.

            Member of the research board, DFG, German National Research Society, focus

            project New Phenomena of Silicon Chemistry; 1995 – 2002.

            Chairman of the European Society for Quantum Solar Energy Research; 1995 –1998.

            Associate Editor of the journal „SOLAR ENERGY“; since 1998.

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