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Bo Durbeej

Professor

Head of unit Theoretical chemistry.

Presentation

My group does research in organic photochemistry, photobiology and theoretical chemistry, with a particular focus on designing more efficient molecular motors and switches, understanding photochemical reaction mechanisms, exploring how photosensory proteins work and investigating the origin of enzyme catalysis. Furthermore, we also develop improved procedures for more accurate modeling of molecules in excited states.

CV in short

After obtaining my PhD from Uppsala University in 2004 and postdoctoral research at the University of Sydney 2005 and Università di Siena 2006, I was a Marie Curie Fellow in Siena 2007-2008 and a Researcher in Uppsala 2009, before joining 一本道 as a LiU Research Fellow in 2010. Having been appointed to this position together with three other young scientists from a pool of ~100 applicants from all disciplines, I was promoted to Docent in 2011, Senior Lecturer in 2014, Associate Professor in 2017, and Professor in 2019.

Publications

Graduated PhD students as main supervisor

News

Bo Durbeej.

How to shift gears in a molecular motor

Scientists have long strived to develop artificial molecular motors that can convert energy into directed motion. Researchers at LiU have now presented a solution to a challenging problem: a 鈥渕olecular gear鈥�.
Bo Durbeej.

Making stable molecules reactive with light

Researchers at LiU have used computer simulations to show that stable aromatic molecules can become reactive after absorbing light. The results may have applications in such areas as the storage of solar energy, pharmacology, and molecular machines.

Isotopic chirality: New method for efficient molecular motors

Researchers have discovered a new way of building efficient molecular motors where weight differences between different isotopes of a hydrogen atom play a decisive role.

CV and funding

Career profile

  • PhD, Uppsala University, 2004
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia, 2005
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Università di Siena, Italy, 2006
  • Marie Curie Fellow, Università di Siena, Italy, 2007—2008
  • Researcher, Uppsala University, 2009—2010
  • LiU Research Fellow, 一本道, 2010—2014
  • Docent, 一本道, 2011
  • Senior Lecturer (Universitetslektor), 一本道, 2014—2017
  • Associate Professor (Biträdande professor), 一本道, 2017—2019
  • Professor, 一本道, 2019— 

Funding

  • Swedish Research Council (VR), Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006
  • EU, Marie Curie Fellowship, 2007鈥�2008
  • Carl Trygger Foundation, 2009鈥�2010
  • Link枚ping University (LiU Research Fellow), 2010鈥�2014
  • Olle Engkvist Foundation, 2012鈥�2014
  • Swedish Research Council (VR),听2012鈥�2015
  • Wenner-Gren Foundations,听2013-2015 (with Chang-Feng Fang)
  • Link枚ping University ("karri盲rkontrakt"), 2014鈥�2019
  • Olle Engkvist Foundation, 2015鈥�2017
  • Carl Trygger Foundation, 2016鈥�2017 听
  • Olle Engkvist Foundation, 2018鈥�2019
  • Wenner-Gren Foundations, 2019
  • 脜贵辞谤蝉办, 2020鈥�2022
  • Swedish Research Council (VR),听2020鈥�2023
  • Olle Engkvist Foundation, 2020鈥�2024
  • Carl Trygger Foundation, 2021鈥�2023
  • Carl Trygger Foundation, 2022鈥�2024
  • Swedish Research Council (VR), 2022鈥�2025听
  • Carl Trygger Foundation, 2025鈥�2027
  • Olle Engkvist Foundation, 2026鈥�2029

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Publications

2026

Bo Durbeej, Simone Pint茅r, Andreas Hirsch, Micha艂 Andrzej Kochman (2026) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 28, p. 17625-17638 (Article in journal)
Attila Kunfi, Barnabas Zsignar-Nagy, Durga Sravanakumar Perumalla, Bo Durbeej, Gabor London (2026) ACS Omega, Vol. 11, p. 31357-31370 (Article in journal)
Enrique M. Arpa, Bo Durbeej (2026) ChemPlusChem, Vol. 91, Article e202500742 (Article in journal)

2025

Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonzalez, Bo Durbeej (2025) Chemical Science, Vol. 16, p. 19910-19916 (Article in journal)
Michal Andrzej Kochman, Bo Durbeej (2025) The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 16, p. 4315-4325 (Article in journal)
Thillaiarasi Sukumar, Durga Sravanakumar Perumalla, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Bo Durbeej, Baswanth Oruganti (2025) New Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 49, p. 6091-6102 (Article, review/survey)
Jun Wang, Thillaiarasi Sukumar, Durga Sravanakumar Perumalla, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2025) ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 9, Article e202400418 (Article in journal)
Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonzalez, Sven Stafstr枚m, Bo Durbeej (2025) Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 90, p. 1297-1308 (Article in journal)

2024

Jun Wang, Yuting Huang, Yajing Wang, Bo Durbeej, Lluis Blancafort (2024) Molecules, Vol. 29, Article 5348 (Article in journal)
Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonz谩lez, Sven Stafstr枚m, Bo Durbeej (2024) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 26, p. 11295-11305 (Article in journal)
T. Thillaiarasi, Durga Sravanakumar Perumalla, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2024) ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 8, Article e202300225 (Article in journal)
Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonz谩lez, Sven Stafstr枚m, Bo Durbeej (2024) Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 30, Article e202303191 (Article in journal)

2023

Peter Pal Kalapos, Attila Kunfi, Marcell M. Bogner, Tamas Holczbauer, Michal Andrzej Kochman, Bo Durbeej, Gabor London (2023) Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 89, p. 16-26 (Article in journal)
Henrik Ottosson, Bo Durbeej, Miquel Sola (2023) Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, Vol. 36, Article e4468 (Article in journal)
Javier Corpas, Miguel Gomez-Mendoza, Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonzalez, Victor A. de la Pena OShea, Bo Durbeej, Juan C. Carretero, Pablo Mauleon, Ramon Gomez Arrayas (2023) ACS Catalysis, Vol. 13, p. 14914-14927 (Article in journal)
Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonzalez, Bo Durbeej (2023) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 25, p. 16763-16771 (Article in journal)
Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonz谩lez, Bo Durbeej (2023) Chemistry-Methods, Vol. 3, Article e202200060 (Article in journal)

2022

Jiezhao Lv, Changfeng Fang, Chengjie Zhu, Peng Sun, Yvonne Y. Li, Bo Durbeej, Xian Zhao, Lu Deng (2022) Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 22, p. 7031-7039 (Article in journal)
Baswanth Oruganti, Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2022) Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 87, p. 11565-11571 (Article in journal)
Michal Andrzej Kochman, Tomasz Gryber, Bo Durbeej, Adam Kubas (2022) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 24, p. 18103-18118 (Article in journal)
Peter Pal Kalapos, Peter J. Mayer, Tamas Gazdag, Attila Demeter, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej, Gabor London (2022) Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 87, p. 9532-9542 (Article in journal)
Enrique Manuel Arpa Gonz谩lez, Bo Durbeej (2022) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 24, p. 11496-11500 (Article in journal)
Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2022) ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 6, Article e202100178 (Article in journal)

2021

Micha艂 Andrzej Kochman, Bo Durbeej, Adam Kubas (2021) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 125, p. 8635-8648 (Article in journal)
Jun Wang, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2021) The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 86, p. 5552-5559 (Article in journal)

2020

Jun Wang, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2020) Organic Letters, Vol. 22, p. 7113-7117 (Article in journal)
Baswanth Oruganti, P茅ter P谩l Kalapos, Varada Bhargav, G谩bor London, Bo Durbeej (2020) Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 142, p. 13941-13953 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej (2020) Chemical Physics and Quantum Chemistry, p. 243-268 (Chapter in book)
Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2020) Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 41, p. 1718-1729 (Article in journal)
Michal Kochman, Bo Durbeej (2020) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 124, p. 2193-2206 (Article in journal)

2019

Changfeng Fang, Bo Durbeej (2019) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 123, p. 8485-8495 (Article in journal)
Michal Kochman, Bo Durbeej (2019) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 123, p. 6660-6673 (Article in journal)
Jun Wang, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2019) ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 3, p. 450-460 (Article in journal)
Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2019) Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Vol. 1148, p. 27-32 (Article in journal)

2018

Jun Zhang, Jun Wang, Alexander Sandberg, Xiongyu Wu, Sofie Nystr枚m, Harry III LeVine, Peter Konradsson, Per Hammarstr枚m, Bo Durbeej, Mikael Lindgren (2018) ChemPhysChem, Vol. 19, p. 3001-3009 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Jun Wang, Baswanth Oruganti (2018) ChemPlusChem, Vol. 83, p. 958-967 (Article in journal)
Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2018) ChemistryOpen, Vol. 7, p. 583-589 (Article in journal)
Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2018) ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 2, p. 453-457 (Article in journal)
Baswanth Oruganti, Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2018) International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Vol. 118, Article e25405 (Article, review/survey)

2017

Baswanth Oruganti, Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2017) Organic Letters, Vol. 19, p. 4818-4821 (Article in journal)
Jun Wang, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2017) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 19, p. 6952-6956 (Article in journal)

2016

Baswanth Oruganti, Jun Wang, Bo Durbeej (2016) ChemPhysChem, Vol. 17, p. 3399-3408 (Article in journal)
Baswanth Oruganti, Changfeng Fang, Bo Durbeej (2016) Molecular Physics, Vol. 114, p. 3448-3463 (Article in journal)
Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2016) Journal of Molecular Modeling, Vol. 22, p. 219- (Article in journal)
Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2016) ChemPhysChem, Vol. 17, p. 954-957 (Article in journal)

2015

Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2015) (Manuscript (preprint))
Shamima Begum, Michele Cianci, Bo Durbeej, Olle Falkl枚f, Alfons Haedener, John R. Helliwell, Madeleine Helliwell, Andrew C. Regan, Ian F. Watt (2015) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 17, p. 16723-16732 (Article in journal)
Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej, Patrick Norman (2015) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 119, p. 11911-11921 (Article in journal)
Baswanth Oruganti, Changfeng Fang, Bo Durbeej (2015) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 17, p. 21740-21751 (Article in journal)

2014

Changfeng Fang, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2014) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 118, p. 4157-4171 (Article in journal)
Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2014) Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 35, p. 2184-2194 (Article in journal)
Changfeng Fang, Baswanth Oruganti, Bo Durbeej (2014) RSC Advances, Vol. 4, p. 10240-10251 (Article in journal)

2013

Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2013) Chemical Physics, Vol. 425, p. 19-28 (Article in journal)
Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2013) Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 34, p. 1363-1374 (Article in journal)
Olle Falkl枚f, Bo Durbeej (2013) (Manuscript (preprint))

2012

Denis Bucher, Gregory M Sandala, Bo Durbeej, Leo Radom, David M Smith (2012) Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, p. 1591-1599 (Article in journal)
Malin Uppsten, Bo Durbeej (2012) Journal of Computational Chemistry, Vol. 33, p. 1892-1901 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej (2012) Quantum Simulations of Materials and Biological Systems, p. 169-194 (Chapter in book)

2011

Angela Strambi, Bo Durbeej (2011) PHOTOCHEMICAL and PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol. 10, p. 569-579 (Article in journal)

2010

Angela Strambi, Bo Durbeej, Nicolas Ferre, Massimo Olivucci (2010) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 107, p. 21322-21326 (Article in journal)

2009

Bo Durbeej (2009) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 11, p. 1354-1361 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Gregory M Sandala, Denis Bucher, David M. Smith, Leo Radom (2009) Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 15, p. 8578-8585 (Article in journal)
Angela Strambi, Bo Durbeej (2009) Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 113, p. 5311-5317 (Article in journal)

2008

O. Anders Borg, Bo Durbeej (2008) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 10, p. 2528-2537 (Article in journal)

2007

O. Anders Borg, Bo Durbeej (2007) Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 111, p. 11554-11565 (Article in journal)
O. Anders Borg, Leif A. Eriksson, Bo Durbeej (2007) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 111, p. 2351-2361 (Article in journal)

2006

Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2006) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 8, p. 4053-4071 (Article in journal)

2005

Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2005) Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 109, p. 5677-5682 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, O. Anders Borg, Leif A Eriksson (2005) Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 416, p. 83-88 (Article in journal)

2004

Bo Durbeej, O. Anders Borg, Leif A Eriksson (2004) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 6, p. 5066-5073 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Leif A Eriksson (2004) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 6, p. 4190-4198 (Article in journal)

2003

Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2003) Holzforschung, Vol. 57, p. 59-61 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2003) Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 78, p. 159-167 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2003) Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 375, p. 30-38 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Yan-Ni Wang, Leif A. Eriksson (2003) High Performance Computing for Computational Science 鈥� VECPAR 2002, p. 137-165 (Conference paper)
Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2003) Holzforschung, Vol. 57, p. 466-478 (Article in journal)
Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2003) Holzforschung, Vol. 57, p. 150-164 (Article in journal)

2002

Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2002) Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, Vol. 152, p. 95-101 (Article in journal)

2000

Bo Durbeej, Leif A. Eriksson (2000) Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 122, p. 10126-10132 (Article in journal)

Theoretical chemistry

Theoretical chemistry

Our research in theoretical chemistry mainly focuses on molecular machines, photochemical reaction mechanisms, photosensory proteins, molecular properties and enzyme catalysis.

Research group

Photo of Rafail Lingas

Rafail Lingas
Photo of Moumita Banerjee

Moumita Banerjee
Jun Wang

Jun Wang

External group member

Michal Kochman

External group member

Durga Sravanakumar Perumalla

External group member