Research

Talks, events, and trips

Presentations, meetings, and research travel.

Upcoming talks

22 August 2027 – 26 August 2027 · upcoming

ECHC 2027
31st European Conference on Heterocycles in Chemistry

Praha

Invited lecture

Upcoming invited lecture

Marcin Stępień

14 August 2026 – 16 August 2026 · upcoming

Conjugated Molecular Materials for a Transformative Future

Tianjin

Host: Nankai University

Invited lecture · 15 August 2026

Upcoming invited lecture

Marcin Stępień

7 August 2026 – 9 August 2026 · upcoming

Transformative Futures of Conjugated Molecules

Beijing

Host: CAS-HKU Joint Laboratory on New Materials; Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote lecture · August 2026

Upcoming talk

Marcin Stępień

Presentation archive

30 June 2026 · past

Kwantowy Wiek

Online event

Host: Komisja Chemii Teoretycznej i Obliczeniowej Oddziału PAN we Wrocławiu; Wydział Chemii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Invited lecture · 30 June 2026

Poszukiwania nowych układów π-skoniugowanych: między teorią i eksperymentem

Marcin Stępień

14 May 2026 · past

CARS-IBS and University of Wrocław Joint Seminar

Ulsan

Host: B. Grzybowski; R. Frydrych

Invited lecture · 14 May 2026

Functional Aromatics via Naphthalimide Fusion: From Donor–Acceptor Oligopyrroles to Organic Pourbaix Spaces

Marcin Stępień

10 September 2025 · past

ESOR 2025
20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity

Padova

Invited lecture · 10 September 2025

Electron-Deficient Aromatics: Multiredox Systems, Near-Infrared Dyes, and Brønsted Acids

Marcin Stępień

11 June 2025 · past

SFB1249 Seminar Series

Heidelberg

Host: Petra Tegeder

Invited lecture · 11 June 2025

Electron-Deficient Aromatics: Multiredox Systems, Near-Infrared Dyes, and Brønsted Acids

Marcin Stępień

21 May 2025 · past

ChemDay @ WUST

Wrocław

Keynote lecture · 21 May 2025

Electron-Deficient Aromatics: Multiredox Systems and Near-Infrared Dyes

Marcin Stępień

21 September 2023 · past

ESOR 2023
European Symposium on Organic Reactivity

Amsterdam

Invited lecture · 21 September 2023

π-Conjugated Oligoradicaloids and Anions: Aromaticity, Magnetism, and Noncovalent Interactions

Marcin Stępień

21 October 2022 · past

National Taiwan University

Online event

Host: J. M. Farrell

Invited lecture · 21 October 2022

Donor–Acceptor Oligopyrroles and Beyond: Functional Aromatics via Naphthalimide Fusion

Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Invited lecture · 4 July 2022

Donor–Acceptor Oligopyrroles and Beyond: Functional Aromatics via Naphthalimide Fusion

Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Poster · 4 July 2022

An Open-Shell Coronoid with Hybrid Chichibabin–Schlenk Conjugation

Bibek Prajapati, D. Dang, P. J. Chmielewski, Marcin A. Majewski, T. Lis, C. J. Gómez-García, P. M. Zimmerman, Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Poster · 4 July 2022

Toward Dibenzo[g,p]chrysene-Based Open-Shell Diradicaloids

Wai-Shing Wong, Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Poster · 4 July 2022

Toward Easily Reduced Non-Benzenoid Oligoimides

Rakesh Kumar, P. J. Chmielewski, T. Lis, Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Poster · 4 July 2022

“Impossible” Multiply Bridged HPHAC Analogues

Liliia Moshniaha, Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Poster · 4 July 2022

Electron-Rich and Electron-Deficient Nanocarbon Receptors Based on Cycloparaphenylene Hybrids

Rafał Frydrych, Senthilkumar Kabali, Marcin Stępień

4 July 2022 · past

ISNA 19
International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds

Warszawa

Poster · 4 July 2022

Donor–Acceptor π-Extended Hexapyrrolohexaazacoronenes

Daniel Matuszczyk, Marcin Stępień

23 February 2022 · past

Hessian Main Group Seminar Series

Online event

Host: M. Wagner (Frankfurt) and M. Wegner (Gießen)

Invited lecture · 23 February 2022

Curved nanocarbons and heterocycles: from intriguing π systems to supramolecular interactions

Marcin Stępień

9 October 2021 · past

MOSS 2021
Modern Organic Synthesis Symposium

Warszawa

Janusz Jurczak 80th Birthday Symposium

Invited lecture · 9 October 2021

Curved Molecular Nanocarbons: Redox Switches, Radicaloids, and Receptors

Marcin Stępień

25 September 2019 · past

Matinée scientifique UTO-π

Rennes

Host: Ludovic Favereau, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

Invited lecture · 25 September 2019

Synthetic Approaches to Curved Aromatic Molecules

Marcin Stępień

20 July 2019 · past

ITbM-GTR Pre-ISNA

Nagoya

Host: Kenichiro Itami, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Toward Advanced Functions from New π-Skeletons

Invited lecture · 20 July 2019

Donor–Acceptor Oligopyrroles. A Modular Approach toward Heteronanocarbons

Marcin Stępień

3 July 2019 · past

International Workshop on Chemistry and Applications of Organic Chromophores

Cardiff

Invited lecture · 3 July 2019

Peripherally Fused Azacoronenes. From Synthetic Challenges to Engineered Properties

Marcin Stępień

10 May 2019 · past

KOPO 2019
Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers

Bad Honnef

Lecture · 10 May 2019

Lemniscular [16]Cycloparaphenylene: A Radially Conjugated Figure-Eight Aromatic Molecule

Marcin Stępień

25 April 2019 · past

Workshop on Progress in Nanotechnology and Optoelectronics

Łódź

Invited lecture · 25 April 2019

Curvature vs. π-Conjugation: New Routes to Chiral and Low-Bandgap Systems

Marcin Stępień

11 April 2019 – 12 April 2019 · past

3rd Interdisciplinary FNP Conference

Warszawa

Poster · 11 April 2019

Donor–Acceptor Oligopyrroles for Energy and Electron Transfer: From Aromatic Nanohoops to Photodynamic Therapy

Marcin Stępień

17 December 2018 · past

SICC 10
Singapore International Chemistry Conference

Singapore

Invited lecture · 17 December 2018

Pyrrole-based Donor−Acceptor Oligomers: Tunable Chromophores, Charge Acceptors, and Chiral Aromatics

Marcin Stępień

15 November 2018 · past

Universität Würzburg

Würzburg

Host: Anke Krüger, Frank Würthner

Liebig Lecture

Award lecture · 15 November 2018

New Synthetic Approaches to Complex Aromatic Molecules

Marcin Stępień

14 November 2018 · past

Universität Freiburg

Freiburg

Host: Birgit Esser

Liebig Lecture

Award lecture · 14 November 2018

New Synthetic Approaches to Complex Aromatic Molecules

Marcin Stępień

12 November 2018 · past

Universität Kiel

Kiel

Host: Reiner Herges

Liebig Lecture

Award lecture · 12 November 2018

New Synthetic Approaches to Complex Aromatic Molecules

Marcin Stępień

8 November 2018 · past

Universität Ulm

Ulm

Host: Peter Bäuerle

Liebig Lecture

Award lecture · 8 November 2018

New Synthetic Approaches to Complex Aromatic Molecules

Marcin Stępień

7 November 2018 · past

Universität Bonn

Bonn

Host: Sigurd Höger, Arne Lützen

Liebig Lecture

Award lecture · 7 November 2018

New Synthetic Approaches to Complex Aromatic Molecules

Marcin Stępień

16 October 2018 · past

11th Korea–Poland Joint Symposium on Organic Chemistry

Pohang

Invited lecture · 16 October 2018

From Coronoid Macrocycles to Stable Open-Shell Systems

Marcin Stępień

9 October 2018 · past

Universität Zürich

Zürich

Host: Michal Juríček

Invited lecture · 9 October 2018

Donor–Acceptor Pyrroles as Building Blocks for Complex Chromophore Systems

Marcin Stępień

6 September 2018 · past

CURO-π³
Third International Symposium on the Synthesis and Application of Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials

Oxford

Invited lecture · 6 September 2018

Helically Curved Oligopyrroles: Boomerangs, Snowflakes, Propellers

Marcin Stępień

4 September 2018 · past

University of Bath

Bath

Host: G. Dan Pantoș

Invited lecture · 4 September 2018

Boomerangs, Snowflakes, Propellers: Functional Aromatics Made from Donor–Acceptor Pyrroles

Marcin Stępień

16 May 2018 · past

German-Polish-Baltic Conference on Organic Chemistry

Hamburg

Invited lecture · 16 May 2018

From Coronoid Macrocycles to Stable Biradicaloid Systems

Marcin Stępień

4 September 2017 · past

CNC Young Investigator Seminar Series

Würzburg

Host: Frank Würthner

Invited lecture · 4 September 2017

Bending and Fusion: Synthetic Approaches to Tunable Aromatic Chromophores

Marcin Stępień

25 July 2017 · past

ISNA 2017
17th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics

Stony Brook

Lecture · 25 July 2017

Two-dimensionally Fused Aromatics from Pyrrolic Building Blocks. Synthesis and Properties

Marcin Stępień

25 July 2017 · past

ISNA 2017
17th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics

Stony Brook

Poster · 25 July 2017

Naphthalene-diamide–pyrrole Hybrids: Synthesis, Properties, and Perspectives

Halina Zhylitskaya, Marcin Stępień

25 July 2017 · past

ISNA 2017
17th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics

Stony Brook

Poster · 25 July 2017

Donor–Acceptor Oligopyrrole Systems with Appended Fluorophore Groups: Design and Synthesis

Ewelina Janiga, Marcin Stępień

25 July 2017 · past

ISNA 2017
17th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics

Stony Brook

Poster · 25 July 2017

Expansion of Modified Hexabenzocoronene–Hexapyrrolohexaazacoronene Hybrids

Joanna Hager, Marcin Stępień

25 July 2017 · past

ISNA 2017
17th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics

Stony Brook

Poster · 25 July 2017

Toward Heterocyclic Nanotube End-caps with Extended π-Conjugation

Mateusz Kondratowicz, Marcin Stępień

13 October 2016 · past

Polish-German Conference on Organic Chemistry

Warszawa

Invited lecture · 13 October 2016

Bending Aromatics from Electron-Deficient Nanographenoids to Hydrocarbon-Based Anion Receptors

Marcin Stępień

9 May 2016 · past

10th Poland–Korea Joint Organic Chemistry Conference

Warszawa

Invited lecture · 9 May 2016

Polycyclic Heteroaromatics in Two and Three Dimensions: Design, Synthesis, and Properties

Marcin Stępień

29 March 2016 · past

ETH Zürich

Zürich

Host: Jeffrey Bode

Invited lecture · 29 March 2016

Designing New Carbon-Rich Molecules. Inspirations from Heterocyclic and Macrocyclic Chemistry

Marcin Stępień

6 November 2014 · past

9th Poland–Korea Joint Conference on Organic Chemistry

Jeju

Invited lecture · 6 November 2014

Distorted Heteroaromatics. Synthesis, Reactivity, and Electronic Structure

Marcin Stępień

17 September 2014 · past

MCMC 2014
Molecular Complexity in Modern Chemistry

Moscow

Invited lecture · 17 September 2014

Distorted Heteroaromatics: Synthesis and Self-Assembly

Marcin Stępień

24 October 2013 · past

π-Space, IMS

Okazaki

Invited lecture · 24 October 2013

Distorted Heteroaromatics: Synthesis and Self-Assembly

Marcin Stępień

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