Dr. Chavdar Slavov

Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa

Scientific interests

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy
Development of data analysis methods and tools
Light energy conversion
Photochemistry
Photochromism
Photoactive molecules & light-driven molecular machines
Photobiology
Photoreceptors
Photopharmacology

Light-harvesting in photosynthesis
Protein and nucleic acids dynamics

 

Helvi Hartmann

Formerly at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt

 

Prof. Dr. Josef Wachtveitl

Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Scientific interests

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy
Photochromism
Photoswitches
Conformational dynamics of biomolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins)
Photoreceptors
Retinal proteins
Photosynthesis
Light-harvesting
Electron transfer at dye/semiconductor interfaces