Guldi Group

Prof. Dr. Dirk Guldi

Our research

The research accomplishments of the Guldi group center on controlling photon and charge management in molecules and nanoscale materials. At the heart is always a multifaceted and interdisciplinary research program, where his group designs, conceptually devises, synthesizes, tests, and characterizes novel nanometer scale materials with the objective of using them in solar energy conversion schemes. A broad range of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques are routinely employed to address aspects that correspond to the optimization and fine-tuning of dynamics and/or efficiencies of charge separation, charge transport, charge shift, and charge recombination processes.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Guldi

Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chair of Physical Chemistry I

Room: Room P 3.51
Egerlandstr. 3
91058 Erlangen
Germany

  • We are excited to announce that the submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations is now open on our website: www.icp2025.de. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025. The 32nd International Conference on Photochemistry will be held from July 13 (Sunday) to July 18 (Friday), 202...

  • We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi has been awarded the prestigious Robert Bunsen Lecture Award. This esteemed honor was presented to him last week in Heidelberg, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the field of physical chemistry. The Robert Bunsen Lecture hono...

  • We are happy to welcome our new guest Bart van den Bersselaar. Bart obtained his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Cum Laude in 2020 from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, during which he worked on the synthesis and self-assembly properties of water-compatible supr...

  • The Guldi Group is organizing the renowned International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP 2025) together with the Wöll Group of RWTH Aachen University. This conference will take place from July 13 to July 18, 2025 in Aachen. First information and the possibility to subscribe to the newsletter can b...

  • Our PhD students Giovanni Mariano Beneventi and Lukas Mai were very excited to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions (GRC EDAI) in Newport, Rhode Island, USA from July 27 to August 02, 2024! For over 50 years, the world-wide known GRC EDAI has been bringing...

  • Why do we use salt and not sugar to defrost our streets? This was just one of the intriguing questions that Lukas Santiago Diaz addressed as he guided 11th-grade students from Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium Bamberg on a campus tour at FAU. Accompanied by Mrs. Günther and Mrs. Müller, the students beg...

  • Following the success of last year’s event, the third Women in Science Symposium took place from July 22-24, 2024. Our PhD students Elena Mack and Anna-Sophie Wollny, were members of the Organizing Committee. Notably Elena Mack served as the Symposium coordinator for the second consecutive year....

  • Our PhD students Tobias Ullrich and Anna-Sophie Wollny attended the 11th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) from June 24-28, 2024. The event took place at the National STEM Learning Centre of the University of York in England. The CMDS conference is a si...

  • Former PhD student of the Guldi Lab, Dr. Anna Zieleniewska, recently returned to Erlangen to present at the Women in Science symposium. Anna is pursuing an academic career, focusing on the understanding driven development of energy harvesting materials. She is currently doing her second postdoc ...

  • We are thrilled to announce that Dirk, a leading expert in the field of photochemistry, recently delivered an insightful and inspiring talk at the 29th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, held in Valencia from July 14-19, 2024. His presentation, titled "Towards Adaptive Light Capture, Conversion,...

  • We are excited to announce the upcoming “Women in Science-Erlangen Symposium” to be held from July 22 to 24, 2024, at FAU and have an enriching experience of scientific exchange, empowerment, and networking. About the Symposium: The “Women in Science-Erlangen Symposium” is an initiative tha...

  • Check out a few snapshots from the exciting Chemistry Department football tournament that took place last Friday! Our team - the "Fluorescent Fanatics" - comprised of members from the Chair of Physical Chemistry 1, made it to the Semifinals! A huge thank you to our incredible Crab-Cheerleaders for k...

  • The NT24 conference, held from June 23-28, 2024, at MIT, focused on the science and applications of nanotubes and low-dimensional materials. This event, the 24th in its series, honoured the late Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer in carbon science and an influential figure at MIT. During the confere...

  • We are happy to welcome our new guest Leonato Tambua Nchinda. Leonato obtained his M.Sc. in Physics in 2020 from the University of Buea in Cameroon, during which he conducted theoretical research on the dynamical transitions in a two-level Landau Zener model. In 2021, he started doctoral research...

  • Swathi Krishna, PhD student from the Guldi group, actively attended the 13th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP), held from June 23-28, 2024, at Niagara Falls, USA. She contributed to the conference with a poster presentation titled "Photoinduced Energy and Elect...

  • We are pleased to share insights from the 13th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP), held from June 23-28, 2024, at Niagara Falls, USA. This event, organized by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (SPP), brought together scientists from various fields—inclu...

  • Thwahira Shirin A is currently enrolled a BS MS Dual Degree in Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram and joined the Guldi Group in May 2024 to do an internship as part of the DAAD WISE program. Thwahira is working on photophysical investigations of electr...

  • We are happy to welcome our new guest Noémie Chantry. Noémie obtained her M.Sc. in Chemical and Materials Engineering in 2022 from UCLouvain University in Belgium, during which she conducted a master thesis entitled “Redox-active Rhodium complexes as a DNA photo-oxidizing agent”. In 2022, she sta...

  • Our former doctoral student Dr. Marcel Krug receives the Gerda Weller Prize. This prize is awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral thesis in the fields of chemistry, medicine, physics and law at FAU. Congratulations Marcel!

  • Dirk participated in the 245th meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) held in San Francisco, CA, from May 26th to May 30th, 2024. This international conference serves as a platform for scientists, engineers, and researchers from academia, industry, and government to share their latest findings...

  • Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiroacridinone Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications provide important guidance for designing novel fu...

  • Advancements in Singlet Fission Materials for Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion Researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), and the University of Alberta have made significant progress in developing singlet fission materials for the harnessing of solar energy i...

  • Innovation at the Nanoscale: Unveiling Next-Generation of Carbon Nanodot suprastructures Researchers from the University of Trieste, the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), and the Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN) have made a significant leap in na...

  • Advancing the Understanding of Inter-Chromophore Interactions for Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion and Beyond Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the University of Alberta have achieved unprecedented control over inter-chromophore interactions, a critic...