Villy Sundström

Villy Sundström
Born	(1949-02-06) February 6, 1949
Education	Umeå University
Scientific career
Institutions	Bell Labs Lund University
Academic advisors	Peter Rentzepis
Website	www.nano.lu.se/villy-sundstrom

Villy Sundström (born February 6, 1949) is a Swedish physical chemist known for his work in ultrafast science and molecular photochemistry using time-resolved laser and X-ray spectroscopy techniques.

Education and career

Sundström studied chemistry at Umeå University, obtaining his PhD in 1977. During his study, he visited Bell Labs and worked under Peter Rentzepis. Upon his return to Sweden, he started building the first ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory in Scandinavia at Lund University in Sweden. In 1994, Sundström was appointed professor of Chemical Dynamics and head of the Chemical Physics Department at Lund University. His group's research centers on the photophysics and photochemical processes in model systems of natural and artificial photosynthetic light harvesting, such as bacteriochlorophyll, carotenoids, transition metal complexes, organic and perovskite solar cells.

Sundström was an editor of the journal Chemical Physics Letters.

Bibliography

Selected articles

1. Sundström, V.; van Grondelle, R.; Bergström, H.; Åkesson, E.; Gillbro, T. (1986-10-08). "Excitation-energy transport in the bacteriochlorophyll antenna systems of Rhodospirillum rubrum and Rhodobacter sphaeroides, studied by low-intensity picosecond absorption spectroscopy". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 851 (3): 431–446. doi:10.1016/0005-2728(86)90080-0. ISSN 0005-2728.
2. Pullerits, Tõnu; Sundström, Villy (1996-08-13). "Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Pigment−Protein Complexes: Toward Understanding How and Why". Accounts of Chemical Research. 29 (8): 381–389. doi:10.1021/ar950110o. ISSN 0001-4842.
3. Polívka, Tomáš; Herek, Jennifer L.; Zigmantas, Donatas; Åkerlund, Hans-Erik; Sundström, Villy (1999-04-27). "Direct observation of the (forbidden) S₁ state in carotenoids". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (9): 4914–4917. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.9.4914. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 21791. PMID 10220393.
4. Benkö, Gábor; Kallioinen, Jani; Korppi-Tommola, Jouko E. I.; Yartsev, Arkady P.; Sundström, Villy (2002-01-01). "Photoinduced Ultrafast Dye-to-Semiconductor Electron Injection from Nonthermalized and Thermalized Donor States". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124 (3): 489–493. doi:10.1021/ja016561n. ISSN 0002-7863.
5. Pan, Jie; Benkö, Gábor; Xu, Yunhua; Pascher, Torbjörn; Sun, Licheng; Sundström, Villy; Polívka, Tomáš (2002-11-01). "Photoinduced Electron Transfer between a Carotenoid and TiO 2 Nanoparticle". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124 (46): 13949–13957. doi:10.1021/ja0279186. ISSN 0002-7863.
6. Zigmantas, Donatas; Hiller, Roger G.; Sundström, Villy; Polívka, Tomáš (2002-12-24). "Carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer in the peridinin–chlorophyll- a –protein complex involves an intramolecular charge transfer state". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99 (26): 16760–16765. doi:10.1073/pnas.262537599. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 139217. PMID 12486228.
7. Pullerits, Tõnu; Zigmantas, Donatas; Sundström, Villy (2013-01-22). "Beatings in electronic 2D spectroscopy suggest another role of vibrations in photosynthetic light harvesting". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (4): 1148–1149. doi:10.1073/pnas.1221058110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3557030. PMID 23319614.
8. Vithanage, D. Amarasinghe; Devižis, A.; Abramavičius, V.; Infahsaeng, Y.; Abramavičius, D.; MacKenzie, R. C. I.; Keivanidis, P. E.; Yartsev, A.; Hertel, D.; Nelson, J.; Sundström, V. (2013-08-15). "Visualizing charge separation in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 2334. doi:10.1038/ncomms3334. ISSN 2041-1723.
9. Harlang, Tobias C. B.; Liu, Yizhu; Gordivska, Olga; Fredin, Lisa A.; Ponseca, Carlito S.; Huang, Ping; Chábera, Pavel; Kjaer, Kasper S.; Mateos, Helena; Uhlig, Jens; Lomoth, Reiner (2015). "Iron sensitizer converts light to electrons with 92% yield". Nature Chemistry. 7 (11): 883–889. doi:10.1038/nchem.2365. ISSN 1755-4349.
10. Chábera, Pavel; Liu, Yizhu; Prakash, Om; Thyrhaug, Erling; Nahhas, Amal El; Honarfar, Alireza; Essén, Sofia; Fredin, Lisa A.; Harlang, Tobias C. B.; Kjær, Kasper S.; Handrup, Karsten (2017-03-30). "A low-spin Fe(iii) complex with 100-ps ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoluminescence". Nature. 543 (7647): 695–699. doi:10.1038/nature21430. ISSN 1476-4687.
11. Kjær, Kasper Skov; Kaul, Nidhi; Prakash, Om; Chábera, Pavel; Rosemann, Nils W.; Honarfar, Alireza; Gordivska, Olga; Fredin, Lisa A.; Bergquist, Karl-Erik; Häggström, Lennart; Ericsson, Tore (2019-01-18). "Luminescence and reactivity of a charge-transfer excited iron complex with nanosecond lifetime". Science. 363 (6424): 249–253. doi:10.1126/science.aau7160. ISSN 0036-8075.

Reviews

1. van Grondelle, Rienk; Dekker, Jan P.; Gillbro, Tomas; Sundström, Villy (1994-08-16). "Energy transfer and trapping in photosynthesis". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1187 (1): 1–65. doi:10.1016/0005-2728(94)90166-X. ISSN 0005-2728.
2. Sundström, Villy; Pullerits, Tõnu; van Grondelle, Rienk (1999-04-01). "Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting: Reconciling Dynamics and Structure of Purple Bacterial LH2 Reveals Function of Photosynthetic Unit". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 103 (13): 2327–2346. doi:10.1021/jp983722+. ISSN 1520-6106.
3. Sundström, Villy (2000). "Light in elementary biological reactions". Progress in Quantum Electronics. 24 (5): 187–238. doi:10.1016/S0079-6727(00)00005-7.
4. Polívka, Tomáš; Sundström, Villy (2004-04-01). "Ultrafast Dynamics of Carotenoid Excited States−From Solution to Natural and Artificial Systems". Chemical Reviews. 104 (4): 2021–2072. doi:10.1021/cr020674n. ISSN 0009-2665.
5. Sundström, Villy (2008-05-01). "Femtobiology". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 59 (1): 53–77. doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.59.032607.093615. ISSN 0066-426X.
6. Polívka, Tomáš; Sundström, Villy (2009). "Dark excited states of carotenoids: Consensus and controversy". Chemical Physics Letters. 477 (1–3): 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2009.06.011.
7. Sundstrom, Villy (2011). Bartolo, Baldassare Di; Collins, John (eds.). "Solar Energy Conversion – Natural to Artificial". Biophotonics: Spectroscopy, Imaging, Sensing, and Manipulation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands: 219–236. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9977-8_10. ISBN 978-90-481-9977-8.
8. Smolentsev, G.; Sundström, V. (2015-12-01). "Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy for the study of molecular systems relevant for artificial photosynthesis". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. COST: European Cooperation in Science and Technology Current Challenges in Supramolecular Artificial Photosynthesis. 304–305: 117–132. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2015.03.001. ISSN 0010-8545.
9. Ponseca, Carlito S.; Chábera, Pavel; Uhlig, Jens; Persson, Petter; Sundström, Villy (2017-08-23). "Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Solar Energy Conversion". Chemical Reviews. 117 (16): 10940–11024. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00807. ISSN 0009-2665.
10. Chábera, Pavel; Lindh, Linnea; Rosemann, Nils W.; Prakash, Om; Uhlig, Jens; Yartsev, Arkady; Wärnmark, Kenneth; Sundström, Villy; Persson, Petter (2021-01-01). "Photofunctionality of iron(III) N-heterocyclic carbenes and related d5 transition metal complexes". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 426: 213517. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213517. ISSN 0010-8545.

Books

1. Sundström, Villy, ed. (1997). Femtochemistry and femtobiology: ultrafast reaction dynamics at atomic-scale resolution : Nobel Symposium 101. London; River Edge, NJ: Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co. ISBN 978-1-86094-039-2. OCLC 39550508.