Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to our Symposium on Biomimetic Photoswitches, on Tuesday 16 September 2025, at UCL in the Gideon Schreier Lecture Theatre (room 124), Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG.

The symposium is being organised by the LUMIERE Marie Sklodowska-Curie doctoral training network in collaboration with London Light (London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies) and the UCL Chemistry & Light research theme.

Programme

14:00                   Opening remarks

14:10                   Massimo Olivucci Siena, Italy
Rotor-stator repulsion and medium-induced dephasing enhance and equalise the quantum efficiency of a fluorinated photon-only rotary motor

14:45                   Shirin Faraji Dusseldorf, Germany
Watching chemistry happen with light: Database accelerated on-the-fly hybrid quantum/classical dynamics in complex environment

15:20                   Steve Meech University of East Anglia, UK
Mechanism in reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins

15:55                   Closing remarks

16:00                   Reception and networking (Nyholm Room, Christopher Ingold Building)

Attendance is free, but we would like to have an idea of numbers for catering purposes, so please register here if you would like to attend: registration.