The Light & Molecules Research Group
Welcome to Light and Molecules by Mario Barbatti.
This website is dedicated to presenting the work of my research group at the theoretical chemistry team of the Institut de Chimie Radicalaire of the Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France.
Our research is mainly focused on nonadiabatic processes occurring after molecular photoexcitation. These investigations are done using quantum-chemical and excited-state dynamics simulations.
About Mario Barbatti
I’m an expert on the development and application of mixed quantum-classical dynamics to study molecular excited states, with about 200 publications in the field. I’m also the designer and leading developer of the Newton-X software platform.
I held a chair of excellence A*Midex at the Aix Marseille University between 2015 and 2019, where I have been a professor of chemistry since 2015. In 2019, I was awarded an ERC advanced grant to coordinate the SubNano project. In 2021, I was nominated senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and elected member of the European Academy of Sciences.
I earned a Ph.D. in physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2001. In 2008, I was granted a Habilitation (Privatdozent) to teach quantum chemistry at the University of Vienna, where I was a postdoc fellow with Hans Lischka.
From 2010 to 2015, I’ve been a group leader at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim, Germany.
My publication profile is at:
Meet me on:
- Twitter (@MarioBarbatti)
- Facebook (mario.barbatti)
- Mastodom
Funding
The research in the Light and Molecules group has been supported by the following:
- the European Research Council ERC Advanced Grant SubNano (grant agreement 832237);
- the Institut Universitaire de France;
- the HPC resources from the Centre de Calcul Intensif d’Aix-Marseille;
- the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation program FET-OPEN, project BoostCrop (grant agreement 828753);
- the Excellence Initiative of the Aix-Marseille University (A*MIDEX), funded by the French Government “Investissements d’Avenir” program;
- the ANR PRC project WSPLIT (ANR-17-CE05-0005-01).