Carles Curutchet

Carles Curutchet

University Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-0070-1208
Researcher ID: C-5204-2008
Knowledge area: Química Física

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 Chemistry
Theoretical 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 complexes
Simulation of spectroscopic properties and fotoinduced processes in biological systems
Development of continuum solvation models and multiscale QM/MM methods

Projects

Modelización basada en estructura del papel del entorno en procesos de captura de luz fotosintéticos y fluorescencia de proteínas . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.CTQ2017-89924-P . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . PI: Carles Eduard Curutchet Barat
Mención de Excelencia Maria de Maetzu al Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional . 2018 - 2022 . Ref.MDM-2017-0767 . Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad . PI: Eliseo Ruiz Sabin
Doctorats industrials 2018. Empresa: GHM Genetic Development, S.L . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.2018DI043 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Carles Eduard Curutchet Barat
Modelización de la interrelación entre estructura y espectroscopía en biosistemas . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-115812GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Carles Eduard Curutchet Barat
Allostery in Drug Discovery (ALLODD) . 2021 - 2025 . Ref.956314 . Unió Europea . PI: Xavier Barril Alonso
Biologia Computacional i Disseny de Fàrmacs . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2021 SGR 00671 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Francisco Javier Luque Garriga
Xarxa per a la transferència de tecnologies de supercomputació d altes prestacions a la societat (X4HPC) . 2023 - 2025 . Ref.2021 XARDI 00016 . Departament d'Empresa i Coneixement. Generalitat de Catalunya . PI: Anna Escoda Sabater
Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTC) . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.CEX2021-001202-M . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Eliseo Ruiz Sabin
Bases estructurales y dinámicas para la modulación de la transferencia de energía y la eficiencia fotosintética en biosistemas . 2024 - 2027 . Ref.PID2023-151584NB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Carles Eduard Curutchet Barat

Relevant publications

Curutchet, 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 Repository
Curutchet, 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 Repository
Li, 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 Repository
Corbella, 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 Repository
Curutchet, C.; Mennucci, B. Quantum Chemical Studies of Light Harvesting. In Chemical Reviews. Volume 117. Number 2. 2017 . Institutional Repository
Cupellini, L.; Corbella, M.; Mennucci, B.; Curutchet, C. Electronic energy transfer in biomacromolecules. In WIREs Computational Molecular Science. Volume 9. Number 2. 2019 . Institutional Repository
Curti, M.; Maffeis, V.; Teixeira Alves Duarte, L.G.; Shareef, S.; Hallado, L.X.; Curutchet, C.; Romero, E. Engineering excitonically coupled dimers in an artificial protein for light harvesting via computational modeling. In Protein Science. Volume 32. Number 3. 2023 . https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4579
Nottoli, M.; Bondanza, M.; Mazzeo, P.; Cupellini, L.; Curutchet, C.; Loco, D.; Lagardère, L.; Piquemal, J.-P.; Mennucci, B.; Lipparini, F. QM/AMOEBA description of properties and dynamics of embedded molecules. In WIREs Computational Molecular Science. Volume 13. Number 6. 2023 . https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1674
Ozaydin, B.; Curutchet, C. Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes. In Frontiers In Molecular Biosciences. Volume 10. 2023 . Institutional Repository
Espargaró, A.; Llabrés, S.; Saupe, S.J.; Curutchet, C.; Luque, F.J.; Sabaté, R. On the Binding of Congo Red to Amyloid Fibrils. In Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. Volume 59. Number 21. 2020 . Institutional Repository

More Information: Web del grup de recerca del Prof. Curutchet (https://www.ub.edu/cplab)