Sergei Savikhin
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
101
Citations
2,725
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
42
Publishing since 1984
Sergei Savikhin studies the molecular machinery of photosynthesis, focusing on how proteins capture and transfer light energy and electrons inside plants and photosynthetic bacteria. His work combines spectroscopy (methods that use light to probe molecular structure and dynamics) with computational modeling to understand proteins like Photosystem I and the Fenna-Matthews-Olson light-harvesting complex. This research contributes to basic understanding of energy conversion processes that could inform artificial solar energy technologies.
Publication output has remained modest but steady over the past decade, with a slight uptick in 2024-2025 following consistent low-volume yearly output.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Impact of Peripheral Hydrogen Bond on Electronic Properties of the Primary Acceptor Chlorophyll in the Reaction Center of Photosystem I
International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2024
- Predicting Mutation-Induced Changes in the Electronic Properties of Photosynthetic Proteins from First Principles: The Fenna–Matthews–Olson Complex Example
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · 2023
- Conserved residue PsaB-Trp673 is essential for high-efficiency electron transfer between the phylloquinones and the iron-sulfur clusters in Photosystem I
Photosynthesis Research · 2021
- Isothermal titration calorimetry of membrane protein interactions: FNR and the cytochrome b6f complex
Biophysical Journal · 2021
- Predictive First-Principles Modeling of a Photosynthetic Antenna Protein: The Fenna–Matthews–Olson Complex
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · 2020
- Revealing excitonic structure and charge transfer in photosynthetic proteins by time-resolved circular dichroism spectroscopy
2019
- Triplet–Triplet Coupling in Chromophore Dimers: Theory and Experiment
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2018
- Near shot-noise limited time-resolved circular dichroism pump-probe spectrometer
Review of Scientific Instruments · 2018
- Probing the excitonic landscape of the Chlorobaculum tepidum Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex: a mutagenesis approach
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics · 2017
- Pathways of Transmembrane Electron Transfer in Cytochrome <i>bc</i> Complexes: Dielectric Heterogeneity and Interheme Coulombic Interactions
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2016
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters×3
- Journal of the American Chemical Society×1
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition×1
- Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics×1
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A×1
- Sujith Puthiyaveetil
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- William A. Cramer
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Iskander M. Ibrahim
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Yulia Pushkar
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Mike Reppert
Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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