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SUMMARY:Dynamics of Chemical Systems across the Spectrum
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Majed Chergui\, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide
  - LSU\, EPFL\nWith the development of novel ultrafast spectroscopic tools
  covering different spectral regions (X-rays\, ultraviolet\, visible\, inf
 rared) it is possible to address the photoinduced dynamics in detail for a
  large class systems. We will present examples on the spin\, charge and st
 ructural dynamics in metal complexes\, the charge trapping dynamics in met
 al complexes and the electron transfer in proteins.\nBio: Born in 1956 in 
 Casablanca (Morocco)\, Majed Chergui grew up in Algeria and Lebanon. He ob
 tained his BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Chelsea College\, London in
  1977\, then his MSc in Atomic and Molecular Physics (1978) and his PhD (1
 981) from the Université Paris-sud (Orsay). At the end of 1986\, he obtai
 ned his Habilitation from the Université Paris-Nord (Villetaneuse). In 19
 82\, he joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as 
 staff scientist\, working on the spectroscopy and relaxation kinetics of d
 oped van der Waals crystals using vacuum ultraviolet radiation at the sync
 hrotron centres LURE (Orsay) and Hasylab (Hamburg). In 1987 he moved to th
 e Freie Universität Berlin\, first as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow\, the
 n as staff scientist. During this time he developed an interest for photoi
 nduced chemical dynamics in condensed phases (solids and liquids) using sy
 nchotron radiation and laser resonance Raman spectroscopy. In 1993\, he wa
 s appointed full professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the Université 
 de Lausanne\, Switzerland. During this time\, he implemented ultrafast las
 er experiments for the study of the structural dynamics of molecular syste
 ms in condensed phases. He also pioneered novel picosecond\, and later\, f
 emtosecond X-ray absorption experiments at the Swiss Light Source. In 2003
 \, he became Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique
  Fédérale de Lausanne\, where he pursues a variety of ultrafast UV and X
 -ray spectroscopic studies on chemical and biological systems.\nMajed Cher
 gui has received a number of awards such as the Medal of the CNRS\, Fellow
 ships of La Fondation de France and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung\, 
 the Miller Award (Berkeley 2002)\, the Rammal Award of the Euroscience Fou
 ndation (2007)\, the Humboldt Research Prize (2009) and the Kuwait Prize (
 2010). He has been member of several swiss national and international comm
 ittees. In particular\, he was chairman of the DYNA network
LOCATION:PH L1 503 (Aquarium) http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=PHL1503
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