Photochimie

Prof. C. Pulgarin is Chemist from Lausanne University, Master in environmental chemistry from Geneva University, Ph D in synthesis bio-inspired of natural substances from Neuchâtel University. During his education he carried out several industrial trainings. Since March 1989, he has been working at the EPFL where he is leader of the Advanced Oxidation Processes Group (GPAO) active in the development chemical, photochemical, electrochemical, ultrasonic processes, their coupling between them and with biological systems to degrade chemical and microbiological pollutants in water and air. He has an H index of 40 and he is the world most cited author in 1) TiO2 photo-assisted bacterial inactivation in water and 2) Coupling of photochemical and biological processes for pollutant degradation. He has been involved in ten African, South American and European international research projects. He has been Swiss representative in COST program 540.

URS VON GUNTEN born in Baden (Switzerland) on 20/10/1959 RESEARCH INTERESTS Drinking water quality and water treatment. Unit processes and process combinations (adsorption processes, membrane processes, oxidation processes). Chemical oxidation and advanced oxidation processes: kinetics and mechanisms of formation of disinfection by-products and degradation of micropollutants. Assessment of toxicology of of transformation products. Biogeochemical processes in riverbank filtration systems. In situ and out-of-ground treatment of groundwaters EDUCATION Diploma Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Chemistry,Switzerland, 1983 Ph.D.Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland, 1989. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2015 Recipient of the Harvey Rosen Award 2015 of the International Ozone Association 2015 Professorship under the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative for Distinguished Scientists 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2013 Distinguished Lecturer for AEESP at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference, Denver, June 10, 2013 2012-to date Adjunct Professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea 2011 Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) 2010 Adjunct Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2010 Adjunct Professor at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 2007 Honorary Professorship at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China 2007 Recipient of the Harvey Rosen Award 2007 of the International Ozone Association 2007 Environmental Science and Technology Excellence in Review Award 2006 Professor title at ETHZ, Department of Environmental Sciences 2001 Recipient of the Harvey Rosen Award 2001 of the International Ozone Association 1999 Recipient of the Marteen Schalekamp Award 1999 of the IWSA 1993 Recipient of a short-term fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1993 and 1994 1993 EERO short-term fellowship-holder PROFESSIONAL RECORD 2013-2016 Head of transdisciplinary project “Regional Water Supply Basel Country 21”, Eawag 2010-2017 Head of Competence Center for Drinking Water, Eawag 2008/2009 Visiting Professor at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 2004-to date Deputy head of department ”Water Resources and Drinking Water”, Eawag 2004-2008 Head of the cross-cutting project “Drinking water for the 21st century”, Eawag 2000 – 2004 Head of department ”Water Resources and Drinking Water”, Eawag 2000/2001 Sabbatical at University of Colorado, Boulder 1998 - 1999 Head of department of Chemistry, Eawag 1995 - 2011 Lecturer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland. 1995- to date Group leader of the drinking water group of the chemistry department at Eawag 1994/93 Visiting Scientist at the International Research Center for Water and Environment of Lyonnaise des Eaux (8 months), CIRSEE, Le Pecq, France since 1992 Research Scientist at Eawag 1989 - 1991 Postdoctoral Researcher at Eawag 1984 - 1989 Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Associate Editor “Environmental Science and Technology” (2010/2011) Guest Editor “Water Research” for special issue on “Emerging Contaminants” (2010) Guest Editor „Journal of water supply: Research and Technology-Aqua“ for a special issue on “Oxidation Processes” (2008) Member of the editorial board of the journal ”Ozone: Science and Engineering”. Member of the editorial board of „Journal of water supply: Research and Technology-Aqua“. FORMER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2016 Co-organizer of PEAK seminar ”Neue Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze in der Wasserversorgung – Fallbeispiele aus dem Kanton BL”. Dübendorf, November 11, 2016 2015 Organizer of PEAK seminar “Micropollutants in drinking water”, Dübendorf, October 30 2014 Co-organizer of the Eawag Infotag “Wasserversorgung und Uferfiltration – ein System unter Druck?” Dübendorf, September 9, 2014 2014 Co-organizer of a Symposium “Advanced oxidation processes for water treatment” 5th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2014, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 2013 Co-Organizer of PEAK seminar on “Oxidation and Disinfection Processes”, Aug. 30, Dübendorf 2013 Co-Organizer of the Micropoll & Ecohazard Conference, Zürich, June 17-19, 2013 2013 Co-Organizer of the session “Advanced Oxidation – Technologies and Applications, Leading Edge Technology (LET) Conference, Bordeaux, June 2-6, 2013 2011 Co-Organizer of Korean-Swiss Science Days in Zürich “Water for the Future”, ETHZ, November 9-10, 2011. 2010 Co-Organizer of an international symposium “Oxidation processes in natural and technical aquatic systems” in honour of Jürg Hoigné’s 80 birthday, Eawag, May 21, 2010. 2010 Co-Organizer of 23. Mülheimer Wassertechnisches Seminar “Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von oxidativen Prozessen in der Wasserreinhaltung”, March 11, 2010, IWW, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2008 Co-Organizer of the Eawag Infotag 2008 “Vom Gewässer ins Glas”, Sept. 12, 2008, Eawag, Dübendorf 2008 Organizing committee of Leading Edge Technology Conference (LET), Zürich, June 1-4, 2008. 2008 Co-organizer of Sino-Swiss workshop “Water Resources Management and Drinking Water Quality”, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, January, 2008 2007 Organizer of Wave21 seminar on “New insights in the field of drinking water treatment”, Dübendorf, Sept. 14, 2007. 2007 Co-organizer of a symposium entitled “Sustainability in Water Supply: Advances in Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment” at ACS Spring conference, Chicago, March 25-29, 2007. 2006 Organizer of Wave21 seminar on “New developments of analytical methods for drinking water analysis”, Dübendorf, Sept. 15, 2006, 2005 Organizer of Wave21 seminar on “New applications of ozone in water treatment”, Sept. 23, 2005, Dübendorf 1999 Co-organizer of 200th Anniversary Symposium in honor of Ch. F. Schönbein - the discoverer of ozone, October 1999, Basel. 1995 Organizer of a symposium in honor of J. Hoigné, June, 1995, Dübendorf, Switzerland 1991 Co-organizer of the workshop "Chemodynamics of Groundwaters", November, 1991, Mont Sainte-Odile, France

De nationalité allemande, né en 1952 à Lauchheim (Baden-Württemberg, Allemagne). Après des études de physique à l'Université Fridericiana de Karlsruhe il y obtient son diplôme de physique en 1978. En 1979, il rejoint l'Institut de Recherches franco-allemand à Saint-Louis (France) comme collaborateur scientifique. En 1986, il entre à la division de recherche de Carl Zeiss à Oberkochen (Allemagne) où il développe principalement divers systèmes laser principalement pour des applications médicales. Dès 1990, il dirige le laboratoire laser de la division médicale. En 1993, il prend la direction de l'unité "laser d'ophtalmologie". En 1995, il est chargé de restructurer et regrouper les nombreuses activités d'ophtalmologie chez Carl Zeiss et de son transfert à Jena. Durant cette période, il réalise des nouveaux instruments de réfraction, des biomicroscopes et des caméras rétiniennes. Dès janvier 1998, il dirige la recherche de Carl Zeiss à Jena où il initie de nouveaux projets en microscopie, en métrologie optique, en microtechnique et en recherche médicale. En juillet 1998, il est nommé professeur ordinaire en optique biomédicale à l'Institut d'Optique Appliquée. Au sein du Département de microtechnique, son activité de recherche porte sur la optique biomédicale et en particulier la microscopie. Il participe à l'enseignement de l'optique et de microscopie. Short CV 1972 Physics University of Karlsruhe (Germany) 1979 l'Institut de Recherches franco-allemand à Saint-Louis (France) 1986 central research division Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen (Germany) 1990 Med - Division, ophthalmic lasers 1994 Ophthalmology division, Carl Zeiss Jena 1998 Head of Central research Carl Zeiss Jena 1998 full Professor Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland

Jean-Claude Bünzli was born in 1944. He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1968 and a PhD in 1971 (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) for his work on the kinetic behaviour of Nb and Ta pentachloride adducts. He spent two years at the University of British Columbia as a teaching postdoctoral fellow (photoelectron spectroscopy) and one year at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (physical organic chemistry). Positions He was appointed assistant-professor at the University of Lausanne in 1974 and started a research program on the spectrochemical properties of f-elements. He was promoted as a full professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry in 1980. He transferred to EPFL in 2001 where he directed the Laboratory of Lanthanide Supramolecular Chemistry until 2010. From 2009 to 2013, he was World Class University Professor at Korea University (South Korea) helping developing a new research center for photovoltaics. In 20154-2015 he acted as visiting professor at FJIRSM (Fuzhou, Fujian), a laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He presently holds the Dr Kennedy Wong Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Hong Kong Baptist University (3 months/year) and a position as Distinguished Scholar at University of Technology, Sydney (NSW, Australia, 1 month/year). Administrative and reviewer duties He acted as the elected Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (1990-1991) and as one of the elected Vice-Rectors of the University (1991-1995), in charge of students' affairs and of research programs in the field of biomedical sciences. He held a position of invited professor at the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg in 1996 and at the Science University of Tokyo in 1998. In 1989, he founded the European Rare Earths and Actinide Society which coordinate international conferences in the field (cf. http://ereswww.epfl.ch). He served as a World Bank Project Specialist within the framework of the Chinese Provincial Universities Development Project (Northwest China, 1989) and as a member of a Panel in charge of evaluating chemical research at Norwegian universities (1997). In 2001, he was hired as "Peer leader" for the evaluation of the Swiss universities of applied sciences. In 2005, he acted as a member of the "Physical Inorganic Panel" of the Science Foundation of Ireland and in 2006 he was nominated to the "Chemistry Panel" of the same foundation. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Spectroscopy Letters, associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rare Earths, and senior editor of the Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths (54 volumes published to date). Teaching Regarding teaching, he has directed the joint project of the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Fribourg "General chemistry for students enrolled in a life sciences curriculum", within the frame of the "Swiss virtual campus", a program sponsored by the Conference of Swiss universities and the Swiss federal office for science and education (2000-2004). Web site: http://chimge@epfl.ch Research His research is centered on lanthanide luminescent molecular and supramolecular edifices, with main applications in biology & medicine. He is the author or the co-author of 350 research papers, 260 contributed communications and has presented 285 invited conferences, seminars, and courses. He has collected >22800 citations (h-index 72).