After the successful edition organised in Shanghai in 2016, the next International Symposium on Photochromism – ISOP 2019 – will be held in Paris on September 23-27, 2019. This event will take place at the prestigious Institut Pasteur located in the city centre of Paris (Montparnasse area), thus providing both easy access by public transportation and proximity to some of the most popular sightseeing spots of the Ville Lumière.

ISOP’2019: Keynote and Invited speakers
The 9th International Symposium on Photochromism (ISOP’2019 – website here), jointly organized by the Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and the Institut Pasteur, will be held in Paris at Institut Pasteur on September 23-27, 2019. This conference brings together researchers working on active systems, whose properties can be controlled upon action of light. It will be a unique occasion to discover lectures delivered by internationally recognized experts in the field:
4 Keynote lecturers:
– Prof. Chiara Bertarelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
– Prof. Masahiro Irie (Rikkyo Univ., Japan)
– Prof. Ehud Isacoff (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA -to be confirmed)
– Prof. He Tian (ECUST Shanghai, China)
16 Invited speakers:
– Prof. Tsuyoshi Asahi (Ehime Univ., Japan)
– Dr. David Bléger (Evonik Creavis GmbH, Germany)
– Dr. Martial Boggio-Pasqua (Paul Sabatier Univ., France)
– Prof. Olga Fedorova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
– Prof. Cristina Flors (IMDEA Nanoscience Madrid, Spain)
– Prof. Silvia Giordani (Dublin City Univ., Ireland)
– Prof. Gerrit Groenhof (Univ. of Jyväskylä, Finland)
– Dr. Thomas Grutter (Strasbourg Univ., France)
– Prof. Thisbe K. Lindhorst (Kiel Univ., Germany)
– Prof. Hiroshi Miyasaka (Osaka Univ., Japan)
– Dr. Takuya Nakashima (NAIST, Japan)
– Dr. Pierre Paoletti (ENS Paris, France)
– Prof. Guy Royal (Grenoble Alpes Univ., France)
– Prof. Karola Rück-Braun (Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany)
– Dr. Wiktor Szymanski (Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands)
– Pr. Yanlei Yu (Fudan University, China)

ISOP’2019: Abstract Submission Deadline Approaching!
A large number of slots are available for oral communications and poster presentations.
All contributions are welcome, including young researchers and students (special sessions are scheduled).
Abstract submission: deadline April 30th, 2019
Early-bird registration: deadline June 28th, 2019
Don’t miss the opportunity to present your latest results!

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Paris for ISOP’2019.
With kind regards,

The ISOP’2019 local organizing committee
K. Nakatani, P.-J. Corringer, R. Métivier, J. Xie, G. Laurent, N. Bogliotti, S. Maisonneuve