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Welcome to the Spectroscopy & Dynamics Interest Group (SDG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry!

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Latest News

2026 SDG Thesis Prize

We are also delighted to announce that the SDG committee selected Dr Camilla Gajo (University of Bristol) as the winner of the 2026 SDG Thesis Prize for her thesis “Unravelling Chromophore-Environment Interactions Using Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopies”. Many congratulations to Camilla on this well-deserved recognition of an outstanding thesis.

SpectroDynamics 2026 CECAM Flagship School

On behalf ot the organizers, the SDG would like to advertise the SpectroDynamics 2026 CECAM Flagship School, a five‑day in‑person program that will be held 7 – 11 September 2026 at the CECAM headquarters on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. In short, our school aims to bridge computational‑spectroscopy approaches across the electromagnetic spectrum, from IR/THz to X‑ray. Communities working at different wavelengths often…

3rd Women in Photochemistry Symposium: Wednesday 4 March 2026

You are invited to our 3rd Women in Photochemistry Symposium on Wednesday 4 March 2026, in the Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.  The symposium is timed to be in the week before International Women’s Day 2026 (Sunday 8 March). It is co-sponsored by UCL Chemistry, and EPSRC UPDICE and COSMOS Programme Grants. Marsha Lester, Maria Sanz,…