Members: Postdoctoral Researchers

Biographical Info

• Since 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher at Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
• 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• 2015-2019 PhD, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France.
• 2013-2015 Master Theoretical Physics, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France.
• 2010-2013 Bachelor in Physics, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France.

Honors and Awards

Research Interests

• Light matter interactions at the nanoscale.
• Structure-function relationships in biomolecular systems.

Relevant/Recent Publications

1. Tuning the Coherent Propagation of Organic Exciton-Polaritons through the Cavity Q-factor, Ruth H. Tichauer, Ilia Sokolovskii, Gerrit Groenhof, Adv. Sci. 10, 2302650, (2023). [URL]
2. Multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations of enhanced energy transfer in organic molecules under strong coupling, Ilia Sokolovskii, Ruth H. Tichauer, Dmitry Morozov, Johannes Feist and Gerrit Groenhof, Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 6613 (2023). [URL]
3. Identifying Vibrations that Control Non-Adiabatic Relaxation of Polaritons in Strongly Coupled Molecule-Cavity Systems, Tichauer R.H., Morozov D., Sokolovskii I., Toppari J.J. , and Groenhof G., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2022). [URL]
4. Controlling Exciton Propagation in Organic Crystals through Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays, R. H., de Jong L. M. A, Sokolovskii I., Bai P., Ramezani M., Murai S.,  Groenhof G., and Gómez Rivas J., ACS Photonics, (2022). [URL]
5. Multi-scale Dynamics Simulations of Molecular Polaritons: the Effect of Multiple Cavity Modes on Polariton Relaxation, Tichauer R. H., Feist J., and Groenhof G., J. Chem. Phys. 154, 104112 (2021). [URL]
6. Effect of molecular Stokes shift on polariton dynamics, Hulkko, E., Pikker, S., Tiainen, V., Tichauer, R. H., Groenhof, G., and Toppari, J. J., J. Chem. Phys. 154, 154303 (2021). [URL]
7. Hybrid QM/MM vs Pure MM Molecular Dynamics for Evaluating Water Distribution within p21N-ras and the Resulting GTP Electronic Density, Tichauer R.H, Favre G., Cabantous S., and Brut M., J. Phys. Chem. B, 123, 18, 3935–3944, (2019). [URL]
8. Water Distribution within Wild-Type NRas Protein and Q61 Mutants during Unrestrained QM/MM Dynamics, Tichauer R.H., Favre G., Cabantous S., Landa G., Hemeryck A., and Brut M., Biophysical Journal, 1417-1430, (2018). [URL]