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

The interplay between quantum coherence and environment in the photosynthetic electronic energy transfer and light-harvesting: a quantum chemical picture . 2011 - 2016 . Ref.277755 . Unió Europea . PI: Benedetta Mennucci
Subvenció 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 Barat
Simulación 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 Barat
Biologia Computacional i Disseny de Fàrmacs . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.2014SGR1189 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Francisco Javier Luque Garriga
Biologia Computacional i Disseny de Fàrmacs . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1746 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Francisco Javier Luque Garriga
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

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/ja055489g
Beljonne, 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/jp900708f
Curutchet, 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/ct9001366
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

More Information: Web del grup de recerca del Prof. Curutchet (https://carlescurutchet.wordpress.com)