Collaborations

  We are collaborating with the Femtosecond Spectroscopy group at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Ernsting and Dr. Sergey A. Kovalenko) on studies aimed to unravel basic aspects of the dynamics of ultrafast proton-transfer reactions and solvation processes.
 
  We are collaborating with the Supramolecular and Biological Chemistry group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Prof. Dr.  José L. Mascareñas and Prof. Dr. Juan R. Granja) to identify and control supramolecular interactions in DNA, peptide nanotubes and other species, employing spectroscopic techniques. 
 
 

We collaborate with the Biophysics and Biomolecular Dyanmics group at the University of St. Andrews (Dr. Carlos Penedo) on investigations directed to the design of new proton-transfer probes as sensors in biological processes.
 
  Our collaboration with the Organometallic Catalysis and Organic Molecular Materials group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Prof. Dr. Enrique Guitián and Prof. Dr. Dolores Pérez) is directed to the study of new molecular materials based on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
 
hhulogo120.gif   We collaborate with the Chair of Molecular Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Claus A. M. Seidel) of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany in our experiments on Single Molecule Detection.
 
  We are involved in a long-term collaboration with Prof. Dr. John P. Richard’s group (Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo (SUNY), New York, USA) to understand the origin of the enzymatic rate acceleration for deprotonation of amino acids catalyzed by pyridoxal 5’-phosphate-dependent enzymes.
 
  Recently, we have begun a collaboration with the Quantum Chemistry group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Prof. Dr. Berta Fernández) with the aim of better understanding the structure and electronic properties of the molecular systems and complexes studied in our group by means of quantum mechanical calculations.