Directeur de Recherche 2ème Classe (CNRS Researcher)
Place and date of Birth:
Berlin (Germany)
13 September 1966
Institutional address:
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal
CRPP – CNRS UMR5031
Research team M3
115, avenue du Dr. A. Schweitzer
33600 Pessac, France
Phone: +33 5 56 84 56 73
Fax: +33 5 56 84 56 00
Email: harald.bock@crpp.cnrs.fr
Academic education and professional positions
| 10/1984 – 06/1989 | Chemistry studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) |
| 04/1987 – 09/1989 | Teaching assistant in Physical Chemistry |
| 09/1988 – 05/1989 | Diploma thesis with Prof. J. Mulzer/FUB: “intramolecular asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions“ |
| 07/1989 – 10/1989 | Invited scientist at the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel) with Prof. Y. Mazur : Total synthesis of the antiretroviral agent hypericin |
| 10/1989 – 06/1990 | Continued work with J. Mulzer |
| 04/1990 – 10/1990 | Teaching assistant in organic chemistry/FUB |
| 10/1990 – 11/1994 | Doctoral thesis with Prof. W. Helfrich (FUB) and Prof. G. Heppke (Technische Universität Berlin/TUB) : “electro-optical effects with columnar liquid crystals” |
| 12/1994 – 03/1995 | Continued work with W. Helfrich |
| 04/1995 – 09/1998 | Research Scientist at Sharp Laboratories of Europe (SLE), Oxford, England, with Prof. E. P. Raynes: novel liquid crystal display modes and organic LEDs |
| 09/1996 | Promotion to Senior Research Scientist/SLE |
| 10/1998 – 2008 | Chargé de Recherche (CNRS) at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS UPR8641): columnar liquid crystals for organic electronics |
| 11/2003 | “Habilitation à diriger des recherches” (Université Bordeaux I) |
| 2008 | Promotion to “Directeur de Recherche” (CNRS) |
Awards
| 06/1996 | Glenn Brown Award of the International Liquid Crystal Society (for doctoral thesis) |
Significant recent publications
[655]. J. Vollbrecht, C. Wiebeler, H. Bock, S. Schumacher, H.-S. Kitzerow, Curved Polar Dibenzocoronene Esters and Imides versus Their Planar Centrosymmetric Homologs: Photophysical and Optoelectronic Analysis, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 4483−4492 (2019) – 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10730
[652]. G. Farias, D. S. Simeao, T. S. Moreira, P. L. dos Santos, A. Bentaleb, E. Girotto, A. P. Monkman, J. Eccher, F. Durola, H. Bock, B. de Souza, I. H. Bechtold, An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core, J. Mater. Chem. C, 7, 12080-12085 (2019) – 10.1039/c9tc03704g
[646]. C. A. M. Salla, G. Farias, M. Rouzières, P. Dechambenoit, F. Durola, H. Bock, B. de Souza,* I. H. Bechtold, Persistent Solid-State Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence at Room Temperature by a Twisted Hydrocarbon, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 6982-6986 (2019) – 10.1002/anie.201901672
[644]. G. Naulet, S. Huet-Exiga, H. Bock, F. Durola, Synthesis of a [20]phenacene dodeca-ester by controlled condensation of seven naphthalene-based building blocks, Org. Chem. Front., 6, 994-997 (2019) – 10.1039/c9qo00125e
Doctoral theses supervised (all at CRPP/Université Bordeaux 1)
| 2020 | Hugo Marchi |
| 2019 | Ludmilla Sturm |
| 2009 – 20012 | Parantap Sarkar, “The ceramidonine and Perkin approaches to aromatic nanoribbons” |
| 2008 – 2011 | Julien Kelber, “Columnar liquid crystalline donors and acceptors for organic solar cells” |
| 2005 – 2008 | Noémie Buffet, “Ropyrenequinones: Towards strongly absorbing acceptor-type columnar liquid crystals for photovoltaic cells” |
| 2003 – 2006 | Sébastien Dardel, “Study of columnar liquid crystals in organic solution and as open thin film” |