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Seminars

# School of Chemistry - Seminar Series

### Research Seminar Programme Dublin Chemistry, Semester 2 (Hilary term) January to April 2026. Unless otherwise specified with an \*, seminars will take place on Thursdays at 12:00 noon at the Chemistry Building in the LARGE Lecture Theatre.

Seminars last updated on 04/02/2026

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| **Date** | **Speaker** | **Title** | **Discipline / Topic** |  |
| 22/01/2026 | Prof. Sean Kavanagh  University of Cambridge | [Modelling Defect Energy Surfaces with DFT and Machine Learning](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Kavanagh.pdf) |  |
| 29/01/2026 | Malcom Kadodwala  University of Glasgow | [Creating and Measuring Chemical Asymmetry with Chiral Light](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Kadodwala.pdf) |  |
| 05/02/2026 | Prof. Conor Crawford  Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie - Berlin, Germany | [Chemical glycobiology of sulfation](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Crawford.pdf) |  |
| 12/02/2026 | Prof. Johannes Klein  University of Groningen | [Designing Catalysis: From Biomimetic to Bioinspired Approaches - New Directions in Metallo-Porphyrin Oxidation Chemistry](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Klein.pdf) |  |
| 19/02/2026 | Prof. Sandy Kilpatrick  University of Leicester | [Bio-Inspired Bimetallics: Synthesis, Structure and Sustainable Catalysis](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Kilpatrick.pdf) |  |
| 26/02/2026 | Prof. Fabienne Demoulin  Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University | [Phthalocyanines: one-of-a-kind porphyrinoids](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Demoulin.pdf) |  |
| 12/03/2026 | Prof. Isabel Correia  University of Lisbon | [Metal complexes of 2-imine-8-hydroxyquinolines as anticancer drugs](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Demoulin.pdf) |  |
| 19/03/2026 | Dr. Sofia Diaz-Moreno  Diamond Light Source | [X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy at Diamond Light Source](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Diaz-Moreno.pdf) |  |
| 26/03/2026 | Prof. Matthew Langton  University of Oxford | [Supramolecular ion transporters – synthetic tools for engineering functional lipid bilayer membranes](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Langton.pdf) |  |
| 02/04/2026 | Prof Dara Fitzpatrick  University College, Cork | BARDS; A Sound Approach to Chemical Analysis, listening in on Epimers, Polymorphs and Chemical Reactions’ |  |
| 09/04/2026 | Prof. Tristan Petit  Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / Université de Haute-Alsace | [Chemical imaging of (electro)chemical processes in MXene down to single flakes](https://chemistry.tcd.ie/assets/pdf/Abstracts/Abstract-Petit.pdf) |  |
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