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Spiridoula Matsika

Professor
Theory/Computational
Office: Beury 242
Phone: 215-204-7703
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Biography

2000-2003

2000

1994

Selected Awards
Postdoctoral researcher, Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D. The Ohio State University

B.S. University of Athens, Greece

Dean's Distinguished Award for Excellence in Research. Fellow of the American Physical Society. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Lowdin Lecturer. NSF CAREER Award.  Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University.

Interests

Most chemical processes follow the Born-Oppenheimer (adiabatic) approximation, in which the nuclei move on a single potential energy surface. However there are important processes where this approximation breaks down. These nonadiabatic events play an important role in essential processes in nature such as photosynthesis, vision, charge transfer and photochemistry. The focus of our group is to develop and apply theoretical methods to study nonadiabatic phenomena and their potential implications.  Focus areas are: Photophysics and photochemistry of biologically relevant systems, such as DNA/RNA; Theoretical description of conical intersections and excited states; Understanding laser control of molecular dynamics.

Select Publications

Electronic Structure Methods for the Description of Nonadiabatic Effects and Conical Intersections
Spiridoula Matsika
Chemical Reviews, (2021)

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Excited State Dynamics of cis,cis-1,3-Cyclooctadiene: Non-adiabatic Trajectory Surface Hopping

Pratip Chakraborty, Yusong Liu, Thomas Weinacht, and Spiridoula Matsika 
J. Chem. Phys., 152, 174302 (2020)

Intersystem crossing in the exit channel 
Hongwei Li, Alexander Kamasah, Spiridoula Matsika, Arthur G. Suits 
Nature Chem 11, 123–128 (2019)
 
Comparative study of methodologies for calculating metastable states of small to medium-sized molecules
Mushir Thodika, Mark Fennimore, Tolga N.V. Karsili, and Spiridoula Matsika, J.
Chem. Phys., 151, 244104 (2019)

Theoretical Investigation of Positional Substitution and Solvent Effects on n-Cyanoindole Fluorescent Probes 
Salsabil Abou-Hatab and Spiridoula Mastika 
J. Phys. Chem. B, 123, 7424 - 7435 (2019)

Electronic Resonances of Nucleobases Using Stabilization Methods 
Mark A. Fennimore, and Spiridoula Matsika 
J. Phys. Chem. A, 122, 4048-4057, (2018)
 
Electron-induced origins of prebiotic sugars: self-reactions of methanol anion clusters
Tolga N.V. Karsili, Mark A. Fennimore, and Spiridoula Matsika,
 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 20, 12599 - 12607, (2018)
 
Photochemical Formation of Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers in DNA through electron transfer from a  flanking base
Wook Lee and Spiridoula Matsika, 
ChemPhysChem, 19, 1568-1571, (2018)

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