The Computational Photobiology Lab 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 and the spectroscopy of fluorophore-tagged biomolecules and protein-ligand complexes.

The group develops in-house multiscale embedding methods based on continuum models and polarizable QM/MM (MMPol model) able to describe how complex biological environments modulate excitation transfer and excited-state properties of biochromophores.