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Photobiology is the science studying the effects on biological systems of non-ionizing radiation - specifically ultraviolet, visible and infrared radiation, either from sunlight or from artificial sources. This transdisciplinary field encompasses scientific, technological and medical aspects, and impacts the civil society, through dealing with light-driven processes related to, for instance, environmental safety, climate change, solar energy, crop production, disease diagnosis and treatment using light.
ESP means: • a biennial Congress • the accredited journal Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences and related book series • a biennial postgraduate Photobiology School • fellowships for students and postdoctoral scholars • awards for outstanding young researchers • medals for excellent careers in Photobiology.
The ESP missions: to co-ordinate and promote all aspects of Photobiology research, education and technology by bringing together the various stakeholders to catalyse developments, disseminate and exchange knowledge and educate the next generation of scientists and the general public in all aspects of Photobiology.

ESP News

7th Photobiology School


June 16-22, 2024

Casa della Gioventù Universitaria of the University of Padova
Via Rio Bianco 12, I-39042 Brixen/Bressanone, ItalyBrixen, Italy

18th International Congress on Photobiology

25th - 30th August 2024
Perth (Australia)

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ESP Junior Meeting

Join us online on the International Day of Light (May 16, 2024) to grow, learn, and have fun within the ESP community!

Registration and abstract submission are open.

Registration and abstract submission deadline: April 18, 2024

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Membership

ESP member benefits

  1. Reduced fees at ESP and ASP congresses
  2. Free online access to PPS
  3. Discount on related book series
  4. ESP Photobiology School
  5. ESP Travel Fellowships
  6. Giulio Jori Research Scholarship
  7. ESP Supplement to the PhD Degree
  8. ESP Awards:
    • ESP Best PhD Thesis Award
    • ESP Young Investigator Award
    • ESP Award for Excellence in Photobiological Research

ESP Activities

Letter from the President

Dear ESP members and colleagues,

On behalf of the ESP Executive Committee and the Congress Organizing Committee, I am delighted to invite you all to attend the 20th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology, which will take place in Lyon from August 27 to August 31, 2023. Our ESP congress is always a great opportunity to share knowledge, promote our recent advances in the different fields of Photobiology, exchange new ideas and developing or strengthening collaborations. We are looking forward to renewing bonds with old friends and getting to know younger researchers that always participate to the ESP congresses with excitement and high-quality contributions.

The 20th Congress of the ESP will showcase the scientific activities of our thriving society through invited lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions and contributions from industrial partners.
We warmly extend the invitation to attend the congress to our sponsors.

Finally, I would like to highlight that the ESP School will take place again in Brixen/Bressanone after its cancellation two years ago due to the Pandemic. The School will run from the 22nd to the 27th of August 2022. It will be fantastic to get together again at the foot of the Tirol mountains and cast the seeds for a new generation of Photobiologists.

Amparo Faustino
ESP President

Season's Greetings from ESP

Seasons's Greetings from ESP

Dear members of the European Society for Photobiology, dear colleagues and friends!

With this remarkable year coming to an end, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you for the contributions you made to photobiology and to the thriving of our Society, even in times unsecure. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unheard-of disruptions to all aspects of our private and professional lives and it has brought to light all human strengths and weaknesses.
In such tricky times, it is only with selfless commitment, solidarity, and reason that success, stability, and development can be maintained. It was these ingredients that enabled our Society’s last year’s main success, the transfer of our Journal Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences to our new publisher Springer-Nature. It will be these ingredients that will make our forthcoming congress in Salzburg 2021, like our congresses in the past, a unique occasion for scientific and social reunion. I would like to extend a special thank you to everyone involved in these collaborative efforts.

On behalf of the ESP leadership team I wish all of you and your families happy and healthy holidays and a successful New Year.

Franz Trautinger, President, European Society for Photobiology


Letter from the President

ESP President Franz Trautinger

St. Poelten, Austria, February 2020

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Photobiology is a crucial discipline to deal with some of the most challenging problems of the 21st Century. It encompasses biological, chemical, physical, and medical sciences to investigate effects of sunlight and artificial sources of non-ionising radiation (ultraviolet, visible and infra-red) on living organisms. As such, photobiology has a vast societal impact in environmental safety, climate change, agricultural developments, and human disease. The mission of the European Society for Photobiology (ESP) is to provide a platform for scientific exchange, for a modern and relevant approach to research, for collaboration of academia and industry, and for education and training of multi-disciplinary scientists from these diverse backgrounds. (read more...)

2019 Young Investigator Awardees

The European Society for Photobiology is pleased to announce the 2019 ESP Young Investigator Award winners Dr. Pilar Acedo (University College London) and Dr. Matteo Grattieri (University of Utah) for their research of exceptionally high quality in the field of Photobiology. The awards were presented at the World Congress on Light and Life, 25-30th August 2019, Barcelona, Spain, where the awardees gave a plenary talk.

Dr. Pilar Acedo
University College London
Dr. Matteo Grattieri
University of Utah
 

CALL FOR BIDS FOR ARNOLD RIKLI AWARD 2019

Deadline for bids January 31st 2020:

The 20th Arnold Rikli Prize is awarded for published work on optical radiation beneficial to man.

September

Call for Papers in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences:
New and innovative applications of Photodynamic Inactivation of microoorganisms.

Submissions: Sept. 2018-Feb 2019.
Editors of this Special Issue: Cristiano Viappiani and Kristjan Plaetzer.
If you have new or novel methods for this, please contact the special issue editors.

 

August

Summer 2018, Issue 8 of the ESP newsletter .


June

5th ESP Photobiology School (Brixen/Bressanone, Italy, 10-16 June 2018).


January

Kick-off meeting of the Organising Committee of the IUPB-ESP World Congress on Light and Life.

Call for bids for 2017 Arnold Rikli Award.

4 - 8: 17th Congress of the ESP.

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Many thanks to José M G Pereira for this one and the other photos of the Congress.
ESP gratefully acknowledges the institutions and companies which supported and sponsored ESP2017.

Summer 2017 Issue of the ESP Newsletter EYEonESP.

  • Call for fellowships to attend the 2017 ESP Congress.

  • Registration is open for the 2017 ESP Congress.

Call for nomination of candidates for the 2017 ESP Young Investigator Award.

The ESP is pleased to announce the launch of the "Giulio Jori" Research Scholarship Programme.

The ESP is pleased to announce the launch of an official twitter site.
Please find us at: https://twitter.com/@EurSocPhotobiol. Please join twitter and follow us!

In the News:

  • Obituary of Professor Jan Cornelis van der Leun (1928-2016) by Frank R. de Gruijl.

  • International School - Time Resolved Methods in Biophysics - Venice, Italy, January, 2017.

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position – Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Summer 2016 Issue of the ESP Newsletter EYEonESP.

4th ESP Photobiology School (Brixen/Bressanone, Italy. Prizes won at 4th ESP Photobiology School.

  • Call for the ESP Travel Fellowships 2016.

  • Announcement of the 4th ESP Photobiology School.

  • Kick-off meeting of the Organising Committee of the 2017 ESP Congress in Pisa (Italy) to discuss about Scientific Advisory Board's suggestions and congress content.

  • Meeting of the ESP Executive Committee.

The ESP President Rex M. Tyrrell welcomes ESP members and fellow photobiologists for the Society term 2015-2017. Please read the President's letter.

31/8 - 4/10: 16th Congress of the ESP.

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Many thanks to José M G Pereira for this one and the other photos of the Congress.
ESP gratefully acknowledges the institutions and companies which supported and sponsored ESP2015.

Finalization of the ESP 2015 Congress programme.

  • Selection of awardees of fellowships to attend the 2015 ESP Congress and of the 2015 Young Investigator Award.

  • Spring 2015 Issue of the ESP Newsletter EYEonESP.

Call for nomination of candidates for the ESP Executive Committee 2015-2017.

  • Call for fellowships to attend the 2015 ESP Congress and for the 2015 Young Investigator Award.

  • Meeting of the ESP Executive Committee and of the 2015 ESP Congress Organizing Committee.

We are very deeply saddened to announce the passing of Giulio Jori, Founder of the European Society of Photobiology. He passed on 23 December 2014.
We and the world of photobiology have lost a great scientist, leader and friend.
The Executive Committee of the ESP.

  • Winter Issue of the ESP Newsletter EYEonESP.

  • 15th: Closing date for bids for the ESP 2017 Congress Venue.

Launch of ESP2015 website with preliminary information about the congress.

The call for proposals of ESP2017 venue is open.

Special Issue of the ESP Newsletter about the 2014 ESP School.

Launch of the ESP Newsletter EYEonESP.

3rd ESP Photobiology School.

Evaluation of the applications for the ESP Photobiology School and the Travel Fellowships.

Call for application to attend the 3rd ESP Photobiology School - Call for Travel Fellowships to attend Photobiology Conferences in 2014 - Call for the ESP Supplement to the PhD Degree.

  • Meeting of the ESP Executive Committee to evaluate the proposals of the ESP Education Committee and the other work groups.

  • Kick-off meeting of the Organising Committee of the 2015 ESP Congress to discuss about Scientific Advisory Board's suggestions and congress content.

The ESP Scientific Advisory Board has been asked to give suggestions for the next ESP Congress (Aveiro, Portugal, September 2015).
Please see who are the members of the Scientific Advisory Board.

The Web ballot approved the increase in Officer number in the ESP Executive Committee.
Please see who are the members of the Executive Committee.

The ESP President Lesley Rhodes welcomes ESP members and fellow photobiologists for the Society term 2013-2015.

The 15th Congress of the ESP has been held in Liège (Belgium), from September 2 to September 6, 2013. The high profile Plenary and Keynote talks and the wealth of parallel symposia, alongside the convivial social engagements, can be appreciated through the 2013 conference link. The high quality research of our Young Investigators is illustrated by the joint award to Abhishek Garg (danger signals in PDT-induced anti-cancer immune responses) and Katie Dixon (vitamin D in photoprotection).