Basile Curchod

The In Silico Photochemistry Group focuses on the development and applications of methods to understand the dynamics of photoexcited molecules, particularly for atmospheric photochemistry and ultrafast spectroscopies. Basile F. E. Curchod obtained his PhD in theoretical chemistry in 2013 at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), under the direction of Dr Ivano Tavernelli and co-direction of Prof Ursula Röthlisberger. He was then invited for a short stay in the laboratory of Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf (EPFL, Lausanne). In early 2014, he was awarded an Early.PostDoc grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to join the group of Prof. Todd J. Martínez at Stanford University (USA). In December 2015, he initiated a short postdoctoral stay in the Theory Group directed by Prof. Eberhard K. U. Gross, at the Max Planck Institute in Halle (Germany). He has then been awarded a Marie Curie Research Fellowship to join, in May 2016, the Centre for Computational Chemistry at the University of Bristol (UK), working with Dr. David R. Glowacki. In November 2017, he became Assistant Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at Durham University (UK), and in September 2018 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. He was promoted to Associate Professor in August 2021. In March 2022, Basile moved to the Centre for Computational Chemistry at the University of Bristol as an Associate Professor in Theoretical Chemistry. Basile is the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Marlow Award, the 2022 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award, and the 2023 Journal of Physical Chemistry A and PHYS Division Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society. Basile is a member of the Early-Career Advisory Board of ChemPhotoChem and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.