European Conference on Molecular Magnetism (ECMM) September, 6-10, 2015 Zaragoza, Spain LINK Olivier Kahn International Award The European Institute of Molecular Magnetism, the chairman and the members of the Olivier Kahn Award International Jury are pleased to announce that the laureate of the fifth Olivier Kahn International Award is Dr. Lapo Bogani, Royal Society Research Fellow at the Departement of Materials of Oxford University, United Kingdom. The 2015 laureate, Dr. Lapo Bogani, has made original contributions in the field of single molecule and chain magnets and molecular spintronics. The laureate is now working in the Department of Materials of the University of Oxford, after scientific stays at the University of Florence, Institut Neel, CNRS in Grenoble and University of Stuttgart. The jury was impressed by the capacity of the laureate of catching quickly the essential features and combining his experience with that of the groups with which he has been collaborating and then of blending chemistry and physical intuition together in order to integrate the field of molecular spins within a more global and original scientific vision. The jury underlines the great inventiveness of the laureate in spotting new phenomena and his ability of finding the best way to study them. Particularly, Dr Lapo Bogani conceived, synthesized, processed and studied successfully new magnetic one-dimensional molecular anisotropic systems and their dynamics. The jury appreciated the extremely versatility and multidisciplinarity of the candidate, his work encompassing synthesis and physical characterizations, photomagnetism, magnet-optics, ultrafast methods on many kinds of different materials : molecular inorganic nanosystems including lanthanides, carbon nanotubes, graphene... So doing, he has performed brilliant research in Molecular Magnetism and was skilful to raise impressive amounts of money in an european context to reach his scientific goals. His achievements and visions were recognized by the scientific community, in particular in the field of molecular electronics and spintronics, specially in a groundbreaking article coauthored with the laureate of the first Olivier Kahn Award. The international jury delivering the Award selected the laureate among several young outstanding scientists - chemists and physicists - having contributed actively to the development of molecular magnetism in Europe and having provided the international community with remarkable scientific results. The members of the jury were extremely impressed by the very high standard of the candidates. They wish to the laureate and to all the candidates, full success in the development of their remarkable but challenging projects. The Award will be presented on the occasion of the European Conference on Molecular Magnetism, ECMM 2015, to be held in Zaragoza, Spain on September 6-10. The laureate will present an invited lecture on this occasion. The European Institute of Molecular Magnetism (EIMM) Dante Gatteschi, EIMM Chairman, Professor, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy