Research group:
Biologia Computacional i Disseny de Fàrmacs
Contact Information
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry
Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, Universitat de Barcelona Av. Joan XXIII s/n +34934024557 carles.curutchet(a)ub.edu
Academic profile
Physical ChemistryTheoretical and Computational Chemistry
Academic training
Llicenciatura en Química
Enginyeria Tècnica Informàtica de Sistemes
Doctor per la Universitat de Barcelona
Research interests
Light-harvesting and energy transfer mechanisms in photosynthetic complexesSimulation of spectroscopic properties and fotoinduced processes in biological systemsDevelopment of continuum solvation models and multiscale QM/MM methods
Projects
The interplay between quantum coherence and environment in the photosynthetic electronic energy transfer and light-harvesting: a quantum chemical picture
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2011 - 2016
. Ref.277755
. Unió Europea
. PI: Benedetta MennucciSubvenció per a la contractació d'investigadors dins del Programa Ramon y Cajal
.
2011 - 2016
. Ref.RYC-2011-08918
. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
. PI: Fco.Javier Luque Garriga; Carles Eduard Curutchet BaratSimulación atomística de la dinámica de transferencia de energía en complejos pigmento-proteína fotosintéticos
.
2013 - 2015
. Ref.CTQ2012-36195
. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
. PI: Carles Eduard Curutchet BaratBiologia Computacional i Disseny de Fàrmacs
.
2014 - 2017
. Ref.2014SGR1189
. Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)
. PI: Francisco Javier Luque GarrigaBiologia Computacional i Disseny de Fàrmacs
.
2017 - 2021
. Ref.2017SGR1746
. Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)
. PI: Francisco Javier Luque GarrigaModelización basada en estructura del papel del entorno en procesos de captura de luz fotosintéticos y fluorescencia de proteínas
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2018 - 2020
. Ref.CTQ2017-89924-P
. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
. PI: Carles Eduard Curutchet Barat
Relevant publications
Curutchet, C.; Mennucci, B. Towards a molecular scale interpretation of excitation energy transfer in solvated bichromophoric systems.
In
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Volume 127.
Number 47.
2005
. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja055489gBeljonne, D.; Curutchet, C.; Scholes, G.D.; Silbey, R.J. Beyond Förster resonance energy transfer in biological and nanoscale systems.
In
Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
Volume 113.
Number 19.
2009
. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp900708fCurutchet, C.; Muñoz-Losa, A.; Monti, S.; Kongsted, J.; Scholes, G.D.; Mennucci, B. Electronic energy transfer in condensed phase studied by a polarizable QM/MM model.
In
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
Volume 5.
Number 7.
2009
. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ct9001366Andrews, D.L.; Curutchet, C.; Scholes, G.D. Resonance energy transfer: Beyond the limits.
In
Laser & Photonics Reviews.
Volume 5.
Number 1.
2011
. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lpor.201000004/abstractCurutchet, C.; Voityuk, A.A. Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer in DNA: A Process that Occurs on the Nanosecond Timescale.
In
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition.
Volume 50.
Number 8.
2011
. Institutional RepositoryCurutchet, C.; Kongsted, J.; Muñoz-Losa, A.; Hossein-Nejad, H.; Scholes, G.D.; Mennucci, B. Photosynthetic light-harvesting is tuned by the heterogeneous polarizable environment of the protein.
In
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Volume 133.
Number 9.
2011
. Institutional RepositoryLi, Q.; Mennucci, B.; Robb, M.A.; Blancafort, L.; Curutchet, C. Polarizable QM/MM multiconfiguration self-consistent field approach with state-specific corrections: Environment effects on cytosine absorption spectrum.
In
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
Volume 11.
Number 4.
2015
. Institutional RepositoryCorbella, M.; Voityuk, A.A.; Curutchet, C. Single amino acid mutation controls hole transfer dynamics in DNA-methyltransferase HhaI complexes.
In
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Volume 6.
Number 18.
2015
. Institutional RepositoryCurutchet, C.; Mennucci, B. Quantum Chemical Studies of Light Harvesting.
In
Chemical Reviews.
Volume 117.
Number 2.
2017
. Institutional RepositoryCupellini, L.; Corbella, M.; Mennucci, B.; Curutchet, C. Electronic energy transfer in biomacromolecules.
In
WIREs Computational Molecular Science.
Volume 9.
Number 2.
2019
. Institutional Repository