Research themes :
Optical spectra (absorption, fluorescence, phosphorescence, organic and inorganic dyes, fluorophores...) Photochromism, single and coupled molecular switches. Benchmarks (DFT functionals, BSE/GW and wave function approaches) Reference values for excited-state energies and properties (chemical accuracy) Proton transfer (DNA and ESIPT) Linear and nonlinear optics (hyperpolarizabilities, two-photon absorption)

My research deals with applications of ab initio models to simulate properties of organic molecules. More specifically, I mainly use Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory to model excited-state properties of dyes and photochromes.