Prof. Carles Curutchet
Host Organization University of Barcelona, Spain Faculty of Pharmacy Curutchet Lab ALLODD Role Main Supervisor for ESR4 |
Brief Bio Carles Curutchet is Serra Húnter Full Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTC-UB) and the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (UB). He began his research career at this university (Ph. D. awarded in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. F. J. Luque and M. Orozco) followed by postdoctoral studies at the Universities of Pisa (2005 – 2007), Toronto (2008–2009) and Girona (2010-2011), working with several professors like B. Mennucci (Pisa), R. Cammi (Parma), G. Scholes (Toronto, now at Princeton) and M. Solà (Girona). He joined back the UB in 2012 as a Ramón y Cajal independent researcher, and was promoted to Serra Húnter Associate Professor in 2016 and Full Professor in 2020. The research group led by Dr. Curutchet tackles different topics related to photoinduced processes and the spectroscopy of biosystems, including the mechanisms of light harvesting and excitation transfer in photosynthesis, DNA photoprotection, and the spectroscopy of fluorophore-tagged biomolecules and protein-ligand complexes. The group develops in-house multiscale embedding methods based on polarizable QM/MM (MMPol model) able to describe how complex biological environments modulate excitation transfer and excited-state properties of biochromophores. Selected Publications On the Binding of Congo Red to Amyloid Fibrils Espargaró A, Llabrés S, Saupe SJ, Curutchet C, Luque FJ, Sabaté R Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020, 59(21):8104-8107 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201916630 Electronic energy transfer in biomacromolecules Cupellini L, Corbella M, Mennucci B, Curutchet C WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 2019, 9(2), e1392. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1392 Density-Dependent Formulation of Dispersion-Repulsion Interactions in Hybrid Multiscale Quantum/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Models Curutchet C, Cupellini L, Kongsted J, Corni S, Frediani L, Steindal AH, Guido CA, Scalmani G, Mennucci B J Chem Theory Comput. 2018,14(3):1671-1681 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00912 Can Förster Theory Describe Stereoselective Energy Transfer Dynamics in a Protein-Ligand Complex? Pinheiro S, Curutchet C J Phys Chem B. 2017, 121(10):2265-2278 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00217 Quantum Chemical Studies of Light Harvesting Curutchet C, Mennucci B Chem Rev. 2017, 117(2):294-343 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00700 Chromophore-protein coupling beyond nonpolarizable models: understanding absorption in green fluorescent protein Daday C, Curutchet C, Sinicropi A, Mennucci B, Filippi C J Chem Theory Comput. 2015, 11(10):4825-4839 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00650 Single Amino Acid Mutation Controls Hole Transfer Dynamics in DNA-Methyltransferase HhaI Complexes Corbella M, Voityuk AA, Curutchet C J Phys Chem Lett. 2015, 6(18):3749-3753 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01683 Polarizable QM/MM Multiconfiguration Self-Consistent Field Approach with State-Specific Corrections: Environment Effects on Cytosine Absorption Spectrum Li Q, Mennucci B, Robb MA, Blancafort L, Curutchet C J Chem Theory Comput. 2015, 11(4):1674-1682 https://doi.org/10.1021/ct5010388 Photosynthetic light-harvesting is tuned by the heterogeneous polarizable environment of the protein Curutchet C, Kongsted J, Muñoz-Losa A, Hossein-Nejad H, Scholes GD, Mennucci B J Am Chem Soc. 2011, 133(9):3078-3084 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja110053y Triplet-triplet energy transfer in DNA: a process that occurs on the nanosecond timescale Curutchet C, Voityuk AA Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2011, 50(8):1820-1822 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201004732 Electronic Energy Transfer in Condensed Phase Studied by a Polarizable QM/MM Model Curutchet C, Muñoz-Losa A, Monti S, Kongsted J, Scholes GD, Mennucci B J Chem Theory Comput. 2009;5(7):1838-1848 https://doi.org/10.1021/ct9001366 Toward a molecular scale interpretation of excitation energy transfer in solvated bichromophoric systems Curutchet C, Mennucci B J Am Chem Soc. 2005;127(47):16733-16744 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja055489g |
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956314.
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