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Frank Würthner received his education in Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart (Germany, PhD degree in 1993). He carried out postdoctoral research at MIT in Cambridge/MA, Jr. and spent two years in the BASF central research laboratories, followed by the Habilitation in Organic Chemistry at the University of Ulm. Since 2002, he is professor at the University of Würzburg, where he has served as head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, dean of the Chemistry Department and founding director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry. His main research interests include the synthesis of pi-conjugated molecules and functional dyes, their application in organic electronics, photonics and photovoltaics, the construction of complex supramolecular architectures composed of pi -scaffolds, the mechanistic elucidation of self-assembly processes, and the investigation of light-induced processes in dye-based nanosystems.