Basile F. E. Curchod

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Basile F. E. Curchod is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Basile F. E. Curchod has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 27 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 26 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Basile F. E. Curchod's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (60 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (50 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (25 papers). Basile F. E. Curchod is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (60 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (50 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (25 papers). Basile F. E. Curchod collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Basile F. E. Curchod's co-authors include Ivano Tavernelli, Ursula Röthlisberger, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michaël Grätzel, Negar Ashari Astani, Simon Mathew, Aswani Yella, Robin Humphry‐Baker, Peng Gao and Todd J. Martı́nez and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Basile F. E. Curchod

109 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved t... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2018 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved through the molecular engineering of porphyrin sensitizers
    2014 3.9k citations Basile F. E. Curchod et al. profile →
  2. Ab Initio Nonadiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics
    2018 543 citations Basile F. E. Curchod, Todd J. Martı́nez profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Basile F. E. Curchod United Kingdom 37 3.8k 3.3k 2.2k 2.0k 1.0k 117 7.9k
John B. Asbury United States 46 4.4k 1.2× 2.0k 0.6× 3.1k 1.4× 3.9k 2.0× 1.5k 1.4× 103 9.0k
John M. Papanikolas United States 39 2.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 821 0.8× 112 5.6k
Petter Persson Sweden 45 3.5k 0.9× 2.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 2.2k 1.1× 926 0.9× 140 6.9k
Stefan Lochbrunner Germany 50 3.1k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 2.3k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 2.1k 2.0× 178 7.6k
Thomas Bredow Germany 48 6.3k 1.6× 2.1k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 3.2k 1.6× 656 0.6× 317 10.1k
J. R. Schmidt United States 44 2.5k 0.7× 2.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 560 0.5× 97 7.3k
Peter Saalfrank Germany 47 3.4k 0.9× 810 0.2× 4.3k 2.0× 2.0k 1.0× 722 0.7× 255 8.3k
Yi Zhao China 36 1.8k 0.5× 882 0.3× 1.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 817 0.8× 252 5.4k
Marcella Iannuzzi Switzerland 42 3.6k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 2.2k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 498 0.5× 148 7.5k
Thomas W. Keal United Kingdom 24 2.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 987 0.5× 527 0.5× 44 5.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hernández, Federico J. & Basile F. E. Curchod. (2025). Spectroscopic characterisation of metastable photoswitches for CO 2 capture and release. Chemical Communications. 61(91). 17850–17853.
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Carmona‐García, Javier, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking Electronic-Structure Methods for the Description of Dark Transitions in Carbonyls at and Beyond the Franck–Condon Point. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 129(40). 9355–9367.
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Agostini, Federica, et al.. (2025). On the connection between the exact factorization and the Born–Huang representation of the molecular wavefunction. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(19). 1 indexed citations
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Carmona‐García, Javier, et al.. (2025). The Singlet–Triplet Gap of Pyruvic Acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(41). 36987–36991.
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Curchod, Basile F. E., et al.. (2024). Partial density of states representation for accurate deep neural network predictions of X-ray spectra. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(37). 24477–24487.
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Curchod, Basile F. E. & Andrew J. Orr‐Ewing. (2024). Perspective on Theoretical and Experimental Advances in Atmospheric Photochemistry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 128(32). 6613–6635. 5 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Deborin, et al.. (2024). Competing Nonadiabatic Relaxation Pathways for Near-UV Excited ortho-Nitrophenol in Aqueous Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(36). 9153–9159. 1 indexed citations
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Slavı́ček, Petr, et al.. (2024). Including Photoexcitation Explicitly in Trajectory-Based Nonadiabatic Dynamics at No Cost. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(42). 10614–10622. 5 indexed citations
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Plekan, Oksana, Marcello Coreno, Monica de Simone, et al.. (2024). Core and valence photoelectron spectroscopy of a series of substituted disulfides. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(13). 3 indexed citations
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Ibele, Lea M., Basile F. E. Curchod, & Federica Agostini. (2022). A Photochemical Reaction in Different Theoretical Representations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 126(7). 1263–1281. 18 indexed citations
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Prlj, Antonio, Dmitry S. Yufit, Basile F. E. Curchod, et al.. (2022). From phosphorescence to delayed fluorescence in one step: tuning photophysical properties by quaternisation of an sp2-hybridised nitrogen atom. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(25). 9484–9491. 11 indexed citations
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Agostini, Federica & Basile F. E. Curchod. (2022). Chemistry without the Born–Oppenheimer approximation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 380(2223). 20200375–20200375. 12 indexed citations
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Anstöter, Cate S., Basile F. E. Curchod, & Jan R. R. Verlet. (2021). Photo-isomerization of the isolated photoactive yellow protein chromophore: what comes before the primary step?. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(3). 1305–1309. 3 indexed citations
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Anstöter, Cate S., Basile F. E. Curchod, & Jan R. R. Verlet. (2020). Geometric and electronic structure probed along the isomerisation coordinate of a photoactive yellow protein chromophore. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2827–2827. 15 indexed citations
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Etherington, Marc K., Ali Shuaib, Andrew Danos, et al.. (2020). Suppressing dimer formation by increasing conformational freedom in multi-carbazole thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(1). 189–198. 29 indexed citations
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Chadwick, F. Mark, Basile F. E. Curchod, Rosario Scopelliti, et al.. (2018). Azo‐MICs: Redox‐Active Mesoionic Carbene Ligands Derived from Azoimidazolium Dyes. Angewandte Chemie. 131(6). 1778–1781. 8 indexed citations
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Chadwick, F. Mark, Basile F. E. Curchod, Rosario Scopelliti, et al.. (2018). Azo‐MICs: Redox‐Active Mesoionic Carbene Ligands Derived from Azoimidazolium Dyes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(6). 1764–1767. 18 indexed citations
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Marroux, Hugo J. B., et al.. (2017). Spin Changes Accompany Ultrafast Structural Interconversion in the Ground State of a Cobalt Nitrosyl Complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(44). 13713–13716. 12 indexed citations
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Curchod, Basile F. E., Clemens Rauer, Philipp Marquetand, Leticia González, & Todd J. Martı́nez. (2016). Communication: GAIMS—Generalized Ab Initio Multiple Spawning for both internal conversion and intersystem crossing processes. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 144(10). 101102–101102. 86 indexed citations
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Mignolet, Benoît, Basile F. E. Curchod, & Todd J. Martı́nez. (2016). Rich Athermal Ground‐State Chemistry Triggered by Dynamics through a Conical Intersection. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(48). 14993–14996. 26 indexed citations

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