The 2009 I-APS Award Winners


We congratulate the winners of the 2009 I-APS awards. The awards were presented at the 19th Winter Conference in January 2010.

2009 I-APS Award in Photochemistry

V. Ramamurthy
University of Miami

~ for his long record of accomplishment in the area of supramolecular photochemistry, where he pioneered the use of microenvironments such as zeolites and capsules to control photochemical product distributions, and his strong contributions to the international community through organization of scientific meetings and editing numerous books and monographs on photochemistry.

2009 I-APS Young Investigator Award

Gonzalo Cosa
McGill University

~ for his creative work on developing new fluorescent sensors for reactive oxygen species in living cells and the use of liposome-based conjugated polymers for membrane sensing and single-molecule spectroscopy.

2009 Gerhard Closs Student Award - Tihana Mirkovic (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada)

2009 G. Cilento Award - Dr. Mariano Bossi (National Research Council of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina)


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