List of works by Thomas Renger

A Bloch equation approach to intensity dependent optical spectra of light harvesting complex II: excitation dependence of light harvesting complex II pump-probe spectra.

scientific article published on 9 October 2007

A new spectroscopic tool for analyzing excitonic structure and dynamics in pigment-protein complexes.

scientific article published on 28 March 2008

ARGOS: An adaptive refinement goal‐oriented solver for the linearized Poisson–Boltzmann equation

scientific article published on 24 July 2021

Anisotropic Circular Dichroism of Light-Harvesting Complex II in Oriented Lipid Bilayers: Theory Meets Experiment

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra of Thin Polycrystalline Organic Films: Structural Disorder and Site-Dependent van der Waals Interaction

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Circularly polarized luminescence spectroscopy reveals low-energy excited states and dynamic localization of vibronic transitions in CP43.

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Coupling to Charge Transfer States is the Key to Modulate the Optical Bands for Efficient Light Harvesting in Purple Bacteria

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Electrostatic Asymmetry in the Reaction Center of Photosystem II.

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Hole-Burning Spectroscopy on Excitonically Coupled Pigments in Proteins: Theory Meets Experiment.

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How proteins trigger excitation energy transfer in the FMO complex of green sulfur bacteria

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How the molecular structure determines the flow of excitation energy in plant light-harvesting complex II

scientific article published on 16 February 2011

Intermolecular coulomb couplings from ab initio electrostatic potentials: application to optical transitions of strongly coupled pigments in photosynthetic antennae and reaction centers.

scientific article published in August 2006

Line narrowing of excited-state transitions in nonlinear polarization spectroscopy: application to water-soluble chlorophyll-binding protein.

scientific article published on 23 April 2012

Lineshape theory of pigment-protein complexes: How the finite relaxation time of nuclei influences the exciton relaxation-induced lifetime broadening.

scientific article published in July 2016

Mixed quantum-classical description of excitation energy transfer in supramolecular complexes: screening of the excitonic coupling.

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Normal mode analysis of spectral density of FMO trimers: Intra- and intermonomer energy transfer

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Optical properties, excitation energy and primary charge transfer in photosystem II: theory meets experiment.

scientific article published on 07 April 2011

Origin of non-conservative circular dichroism of the CP29 antenna complex of photosystem II.

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Primary photophysical processes in photosystem II: bridging the gap between crystal structure and optical spectra.

scientific article published on April 2010

Quantum biology revisited

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Red/Green Color Tuning of Visual Rhodopsins: Electrostatic Theory Provides a Quantitative Explanation

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Refined structure-based simulation of plant light-harvesting complex II: linear optical spectra of trimers and aggregates

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Revealing the functional states in the active site of BLUF photoreceptors from electrochromic shift calculations.

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Simulations of frequency-domain spectra: structure-function relationships in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes.

scientific article published in May 2000

Site-dependence of van der Waals interaction explains exciton spectra of double-walled tubular J-aggregates

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Site-directed mutations at D1-His198 and D1-Thr179 of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: deciphering the spectral properties of the PSII reaction centre.

scientific article published on March 2008

Site-directed mutations at D1-Thr179 of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 modify the spectroscopic properties of the accessory chlorophyll in the D1-branch of the reaction center.

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Spectroscopic properties of reaction center pigments in photosystem II core complexes: revision of the multimer model.

scientific article published on 13 March 2008

Static Disorder in Excitation Energies of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Protein: Structure-Based Theory Meets Experiment

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Structure Prediction of Self-Assembled Dye Aggregates from Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy, Molecular Mechanics, and Theory of Optical Spectra.

scientific article published on 03 August 2016

Structure-Based Theory of Fluctuation-Induced Energy Transfer in a Molecular Dyad

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Structure-based calculations of optical spectra of photosystem I suggest an asymmetric light-harvesting process.

scientific article published in March 2010

Structure-based identification of energy sinks in plant light-harvesting complex II.

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Structure-based modeling of energy transfer in photosynthesis.

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

Structure-based simulation of linear optical spectra of the CP43 core antenna of photosystem II.

scientific article published on 2 August 2011

The lowest-energy chlorophyll of photosystem II is adjacent to the peripheral antenna: Emitting states of CP47 assigned via circularly polarized luminescence.

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

The primary electron donor of photosystem II of the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina is a chlorophyll d and the water oxidation is driven by a chlorophyll a/chlorophyll d heterodimer.

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The quest for energy traps in the CP43 antenna of photosystem II.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Theory of Anisotropic Circular Dichroism of Excitonically Coupled Systems: Application to the Baseplate of Green Sulfur Bacteria

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Theory of FRET "Spectroscopic Ruler" for Short Distances: Application to Polyproline

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Theory of excitation energy transfer: from structure to function.

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Theory of optical spectra involving charge transfer states: dynamic localization predicts a temperature dependent optical band shift.

scientific article published on 26 October 2004

Theory of optical spectra of photosystem II reaction centers: location of the triplet state and the identity of the primary electron donor.

scientific article published on 19 November 2004

Towards a structure-based exciton Hamiltonian for the CP29 antenna of photosystem II

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Towards an ab initio description of the optical spectra of light-harvesting antennae: application to the CP29 complex of photosystem II.

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Towards an exact theory of linear absorbance and circular dichroism of pigment-protein complexes: importance of non-secular contributions.

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Ultrafast infrared observation of exciton equilibration from oriented single crystals of photosystem II.

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

Understanding photosynthetic light-harvesting: a bottom up theoretical approach.

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Variation of exciton-vibrational coupling in photosystem II core complexes from Thermosynechococcus elongatus as revealed by single-molecule spectroscopy

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Wavelength-Dependent Exciton-Vibrational Coupling in the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Binding Protein Revealed by Multilevel Theory of Difference Fluorescence Line-Narrowing

scientific article published on 14 September 2018