Research activity
Method Developments and Spectroscopy
Wave function theory for
the electron correlations
A combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (
QM/MM
) method
Spectroscopy
of organic, inorganic, biological molecules
Quantum Chemistry of Photobiological Phenomena
Photosynthesis
: Excited states and electron transfer in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers
Vision
: Color tuning in retinal proteins
Bioluminescences
: Emission color tuning mechanism of firefly lucifereins
Fluorescent proteins
: Green fluorescent protein (GFP) and its mutants
Phytochrome
: Photocycle of phytochromobilin