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Biographical Sketches Carlos Romero Nieto graduated in chemistry (2005) from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He initiated his Ph.D. studies at the same university under the supervision of ́ Professors S. Merino and J. Rodriguez-Ló pez, working on the synthesis of new phosphole-based dendrimeric structures. In 2008, he joined Professor T. Baumgartner's group for 1 year at the University of Calgary (Canada), where he worked on the investigation of π-extended dithienophosphole architectures. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor D. M. Guldi on the spectroscopic investigation of photoactive materials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Georgios Katsukis is a Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry at The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg studying under Professor D. M. Guldi. As a fellow of the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials (EAM) and of the Graduate School Molecular Science (GSMS), he has been working as a researcher on the photophysical characterization of functional graphene-based materials since 2011. Jenny Malig is a fellow of the graduate School Molecular Science (GSMS) within the framework of the initiative for excellence of the Bavarian Federal Government. She is currently working as a researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg as a Ph.D. candidate on the functionalization, synthesis, and characterization of graphenoid systems. Christian Ehli received his diploma in chemistry from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2005). Next, he had a brief stay at Osaka University (2006) as a scholarship holder of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (21st Century COE Program). He finished his Ph.D. in the field of spectroscopy and electrochemistry of nanocarbon materials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2009). Since 2009, he has been working as Akademischer Rat of the Chair of Physical Chemistry I, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Dirk M. Guldi began his scientific career at the University of Köln, where he graduated in chemistry (1988) and received his Ph.D. (1990). After a postdoctoral stay at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD (1991/ 1992), he took a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin (1992−1994). Following a brief stay as a Feodor-Lynen Fellow at Syracuse University, NY, he joined the faculty of the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory (1995). Then, after nearly a decade in the U.S., the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg succeeded in attracting him back to Germany.
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