Abhishek SirohiwalPostdoc

About me

Jan 2022 to Present: EMBO Long-Term Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. (With Prof. Dr. Ville R. I. Kaila)

April 2021 to December 2021: Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. (With Dr. Dimitrios A. Pantazis and Prof. Dr. Frank Neese)

May 2018 to March 2021: PhD (summa cum laude), Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. (With Dr. Dimitrios A. Pantazis and Prof. Dr. Frank Neese). (RESOLV Doctoral Award 2022 for outstanding doctoral thesis)

Doctoral thesis: Multiscale Modeling and Theoretical Spectroscopy of Photosystem II. PDF

Sept 2018 to Nov 2018: Visiting Researcher, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy. (With Prof. Dr. Leonardo Guidoni and Prof. Dr. Stefano Pascarella)

Feb 2017 to May 2018: Doctoral Researcher (RESOLV Fellow), Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. (With Dr. Dimitrios A. Pantazis and Prof. Dr. Frank Neese)

May 2015 to July 2015: Research Internship (DST-INSPIRE-FUB Fellow), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (With PD Dr. Dirk Andrae)

May 2012 to Oct 2014: Research Internship (NIUS Fellow), Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education, Mumbai, India. (With Dr. Tapan K. Ghanty)

Aug 2011 to May 2016: BS-MS (DST-INSPIRE Fellow), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India.

Selected publications

1. A. Sirohiwal, A. P. Gamiz-Hernandez, V. R. I. Kaila, Mechanistic principles of hydrogen evolution in the membrane-bound hydrogenase, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 26, 18019–18031
2. A. Sirohiwal and D. A. Pantazis, Reaction Center Excitation in Photosystem II: From Multiscale Modeling to Functional Principles, Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 21, 2921–2932.
3. A. Sirohiwal and D. A. Pantazis, Functional Water Networks in Fully Hydrated Photosystem II,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 22035-22050.
4. A. Sirohiwal and D. A. Pantazis, The Electronic Origin of Far-Red-Light-Driven Oxygenic Photosynthesis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202200356.
5. A. Sirohiwal, F. Neese and D. A. Pantazis, Chlorophyll Excitation Energies and Structural Stability of the CP47 Antenna of Photosystem II: A Case Study in the First-Principles Simulation of Light-Harvesting Complexes, Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 4463-4476.
6. A. Sirohiwal, F. Neese and D. A. Pantazis. How Can We Predict Accurate Electrochromic Shifts for Biochromophores? A Case Study on the Photosynthetic Reaction Center, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2021, 17, 1858-1873.
7. A. Sirohiwal, F. Neese and D. A. Pantazis, Protein Matrix Control of Reaction Center Excitation in Photosystem II, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 18174-18190.
8. A. Sirohiwal, F. Neese and D. A. Pantazis, Microsolvation of the Redox-Active Tyrosine-D in Photosystem II: Correlation of Energetics with EPR Spectroscopy and Oxidation-Induced Proton Transfer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 3217-3231.