Group Photo: Frank Emmert, Prof. Lyudmila Slipchenko, and Dr. Dmytro Kosenkov

Overview

The goal of our research is to understand the fundamental laws that control chemistry in the condensed phase, using quantum chemistry tools. The environment can affect chemical processes in different ways. For example, a solvent may completely change the character of the electronic states of a solute and create new, so called charge transfer-to-solvent states. On the other hand, the protein environment does not create new electronic states in the retinal chromophore in visual rhodopsin, but modifies the potential energy surfaces of the chromophore states and the coupling between them. You can find out more information on our research page.