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
- 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
- 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.
- A. Sirohiwal and D. A. Pantazis, Functional Water Networks in Fully Hydrated Photosystem II, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 22035-22050.
- A. Sirohiwal and D. A. Pantazis, The Electronic Origin of Far-Red-Light-Driven Oxygenic Photosynthesis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202200356.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.