KALMAN PRIZE

25 August 2022

Prize, Live

• PR2 • 12:00 > 12:30 • KALMAN PRIZE • Richelieu Amphithéâtre
The International Kálmán Prize preserves the memory of the late Alajos Kálmán, an eminent scientist in the field of chemical crystallography. The Prize is established by the Hungarian Chemical Society and is endorsed by European Crystallographic Association (ECA). The ECA awards the Alajos Kálmán Prize twice in a three-year cycle (year of the General Assembly of the IUCr excluded) at the European Crystallographic Meetings (ECMs). The Prize will be awarded to an individual researcher in recognition for outstanding scientific contributions in the field of structural sciences within the last 5-10 years. The prize consists of a medal and a financial award and the awardee delivers a Prize Lecture at the ECM.

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The second Alajos Kálmán Prize of the Hungarian Chemical Society, endorsed by the European Crystallographic Association (ECA), is awarded to Prof Éric Collet from the Institute of Physics in Rennes, France.
Éric Collet performs his inspirational interdisciplinary research at the interface of material science, chemistry and physics with crystallography at the very heart of his work. Prof Collet is one of the pioneers who paved the way for the subsequent studies in the greatly innovative field of X-ray free electron lasers science. He and his collaborators made high impact studies of ultra-fast femto second experiments, ultra-fast photo excitations like photo induced structural dynamics, phase transitions and molecular switching.
His outstanding achievement is based on the structural study of molecular complexes and new transition mechanisms, going from the molecular to the crystalline scale.

12:00 • INT2 • The key role of crystallography in the understanding of magnetic molecular materials > E. Eric COLLET