Dr. Bassani obtained a Bachelor degree in chemistry at the University of Louvain (Belgium), followed by a PhD in Chemistry at Northwestern University under the guidance of F. D. Lewis. He joined the CNRS at the University of Bordeaux in 1997 where he leads a research group focused on the use of supramolecular interactions to control the photochemical and photophysical behavior of excited states in solution, in the solid, and on surfaces. Intermolecular communication in these assemblies is harnessed to give systems in which the reactivity, absorption, or emission reflects the ordering of the electro- and photo-active subunits. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society and is currently serving as editor-in-chief for Photochem. Photobiol. Sci.