Ignacio Fernández Galván
Researcher at Department of Chemistry - BMC; Organic Chemistry; Lindh group
- E-mail:
- ignacio.fernandez@kemi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet
Lägerhyddsvägen 1
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 516
751 20 UPPSALA
Researcher at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Structural Chemistry
- Visiting address:
- Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 538
751 21 Uppsala
Short presentation
I am interested in studying photochemical and photophysical processes, solvent effects and QM/MM calculations. I'm also a developer and maintainer of the OpenMolcas quantum chemistry program.
Biography
I studied and obtained the PhD degree in the University of Extremadura, Spain. My research there was focused on the development of the ASEP/MD method for studying solvent effects, with high-level quantum methods and an atomistic, statistically-averaged representation of the solute.
I spent two years in Grenoble, France, working on QM/MM calculations on proteins, with Prof. Martin Field. My interest then shifted to photophysical processes in solution, studying phenomena such as dual fluorescence.
Since March 2013 I am employed as a researcher in Uppsala University, where I contribute to the development of OpenMolcas, a frontline quantum chemistry software package.

Publications
Recent publications
The versatility of the Cholesky decomposition in electronic structure theory
Part of WIREs Computational Molecular Science, 2024
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A Story of Three Levels of Sophistication in SCF/KS-DFT Orbital Optimization Procedures
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 2472-2486, 2024
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Minimum-Energy Conical Intersections by Compressed Multistate Pair-Density Functional Theory
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 1698-1706, 2024
The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 6933-6991, 2023
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Smooth Things Come in Threes: A Diabatic Surrogate Model for Conical Intersection Optimization
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 3418-3427, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
The versatility of the Cholesky decomposition in electronic structure theory
Part of WIREs Computational Molecular Science, 2024
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A Story of Three Levels of Sophistication in SCF/KS-DFT Orbital Optimization Procedures
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 2472-2486, 2024
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Minimum-Energy Conical Intersections by Compressed Multistate Pair-Density Functional Theory
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 1698-1706, 2024
The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 6933-6991, 2023
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Smooth Things Come in Threes: A Diabatic Surrogate Model for Conical Intersection Optimization
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 3418-3427, 2023
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Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 8258-8272, 2023
Role of conical intersection seam topography in the chemiexcitation of 1,2-dioxetanes
Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 1638-1653, 2022
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Regularized CASPT2: an Intruder-State-Free Approach
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 4814-4825, 2022
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Part of RSC Advances, p. 14544-14550, 2022
- DOI for Photophysical characterization and fluorescence cell imaging applications of 4-N-substituted benzothiadiazoles
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Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 571-582, 2021
- DOI for Restricted-Variance Constrained, Reaction Path, and Transition State Molecular Optimizations Using Gradient-Enhanced Kriging
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 10942-10954, 2020
- DOI for Impact of Excited-State Antiaromaticity Relief in a Fundamental Benzene Photoreaction Leading to Substituted Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexenes
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020
- DOI for Exact semi-classical light-matter interaction operator applied to two-photon processes with strong relativistic effects
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Restricted-Variance Molecular Geometry Optimization Based on Gradient-Enhanced Kriging
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 3989-4001, 2020
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Modern quantum chemistry with [Open]Molcas
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020
- DOI for Non-radiative decay and fragmentation in water molecules after 1a1-14a1 excitation and core ionization studied by electron-energy-resolved electron–ion coincidence spectroscopy
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Chemiexcitation without the Peroxide Bond?: Replacing oxygen with other heteroatoms
Part of ChemPhotoChem, p. 957-967, 2019
OpenMolcas: From Source Code to Insight
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 5925-5964, 2019
Part of Chemical Science, p. 2298-2307, 2019
- DOI for How machine learning can assist the interpretation of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and conceptual understanding of chemistry
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Uncontracted basis sets for ab initio calculations of muonic atoms and molecules
Part of International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2018
How Do Methyl Groups Enhance the Triplet Chemiexcitation Yield of Dioxetane?
Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, p. 3790-3794, 2017
Part of RSC Advances, p. 17462-17472, 2017
Non-adabatic dynamics of the 1,2-dioxetane chemiluminescence
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2017
Triplet versus singlet chemiexcitation mechanism in dioxetanone: a CASSCF/CASPT2 study
Part of Theoretical Chemistry accounts, 2017
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, p. 3842-3846, 2017
Mechanism of activated chemiluminescence of cyclic peroxides: 1,2-dioxetanes and 1,2-dioxetanones
Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 3955-3962, 2017
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 737-748, 2017
Inner projection techniques for the low-cost handling of two-electron integrals in quantum chemistry
Part of Molecular Physics, p. 2052-2064, 2017
Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 12369-12378, 2017
Dynamical Insights into the Decomposition of 1,2-Dioxetane
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 2448-2457, 2017
Part of Journal of Computational Chemistry, p. 506-541, 2016
- DOI for Molcas 8: New capabilities for multiconfigurational quantum chemical calculations across the periodic table
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Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 3636-3653, 2016
- DOI for Analytical State-Average Complete-Active-Space Self-Consistent Field Nonadiabatic Coupling Vectors: Implementation with Density-Fitted Two-Electron Integrals and Application to Conical Intersections
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Molecular and Electronic Structure of Re2Br4(PMe3)(4)
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 7111-7116, 2016
Part of Journal of Computational Chemistry, p. 1698-1708, 2015
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 5504-5514, 2015
A new QM/MM method oriented to the study of ionic liquids
Part of Journal of Computational Chemistry, p. 1893-1901, 2015
S0 → S3 transition in recombination products of photodissociated dihalomethanes
Part of Molecular Physics, p. 575-582, 2014
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry B, p. 12518-12530, 2014
Quantum dynamics simulations of model chemiluminescence systems
Part of Luminescence (Chichester, England Print), p. 67-67, 2014
Part of Luminescence (Chichester, England Print), p. 67-68, 2014
A Theoretical Analysis of the Intrinsic Light-Harvesting Properties of Xanthopterin
Part of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, p. 230-236, 2014
Part of Theoretical Chemistry accounts, p. 1390, 2013
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 4481-4494, 2013
Articles, review/survey
Chemi- and Bioluminescence of Cyclic Peroxides
Part of Chemical Reviews, p. 6927-6974, 2018
Chapters in book
Part of Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry: Volume 15, p. 39-76, Elsevier, 2019
Part of Photochemistry: Volume 44, p. 16-60, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
Part of Photochemistry: Volume 42, p. 11-42, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015
Part of Photochemistry: Volume 42, p. 11-42, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015
Accelerating QM/MM Calculations by Using the Mean Field Approximation
Part of Quantum Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems, p. 135-152, Springer, 2015