KT Seminars

  • Date: April 17th, 10:00 am
    Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Salón de Actos)
    Title: Quasiparticles in van der Waals bonded hexagonal Boron Nitride structures
    Speaker: Raúl Amaury Quintero Monsebaiz
  • 2026

      • Date: March 6th, 10:10 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: Can Aromaticity be Evaluated Using Atomic Partitions based on the Hilbert-space?
        Speaker: Joan Grèbol
      • Date: February 20th, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: SET-driven radical formation in nitroaromatics
        Speaker: Lisa Ebo
      • Date: February 6th, 10:00 am
        Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Salón de Actos)
        Title: Theoretical simulation of metal complexes.
        Speaker: Julen Aduriz
      • Date: January 23th, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: An introduction to quantum computing for quantum chemistry
        Speaker: Nonia Vaquero
      • Date: January 9th, 10:00 am
        Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Salón de Actos)
        Title: Materials Engineering from Atomistic Simulations: Estimating Material Properties via MD
        Speaker: Unai Calvo

    2025

      • Date: December 3rd, 11:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Seminar Room)
        Title: Modelling Photoluminescence in Organic Systems: Exploring the impact of aggregation and mechanical effects on the molecular, electronic and optical properties
        Speaker: Josianne Owona
      • Date: November 28th, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Seminar Room)
        Title: Thermochemical and electrochemical stability of ruthenium oxides: A DFT perspective
        Speaker: Iratxe Aguado Ruiz
      • Date: November 20th, 12:00
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Seminar Room)
        Title: Integrative computational microscopy: Bridging cellular 3D imaging with physics-based simulations for biological discovery
        Speaker: Sergio Cruz
      • Date: November 13th (Thursday), 10:00 am
        Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Salón de Actos)
        Title: Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Method Development and Applications.
        Speaker: Edison Salazar
      • Date: October 31st, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: Correcting DFT-based energies to enhance computational catalysis predictions
        Speaker: Ricardo Urrego Ortiz
      • Date: October 17th, 10:00 am
        Place: Room #1, Faculty of Chemistry
        Title: Optimizing the oxidation potential of perylenes in the singlet and triplet states
        Speaker: Francisca Benítez
      • Date: September 19, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: Number of Bonds in Diatomic Molecules from Excited State Potential Energy Curves
        Speaker: Ishita Bhattacharjee
      • Date: July 4, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: Trick-tracking proteins with molecular modelling
        Speaker: Dulce Guzman
      • Date: June 13, 10:00 am
        Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Salon de Actos)
        Title: Mechanistic Insights into Ligand Photodissociation in Ru(II) Complexes for PACT Applications
        Speaker: Stefano Scoditti
      • Date: June 6, 10:00 am
        Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Salon de Actos)
        Title: Proton Transfer in CAGE 1:2 via Neural Network-based Force Field Simulations
        Speaker: Mikel Loizate
      • Date: May 16, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: POL-KT – Applying Theoretical Chemistry in Polymer Science
        Speaker: Mikel Irigoien
      • Date: April 30, 12:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: Addressing chemical effects in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
        Speaker: Roberto Álvarez Boto
      • Date: April 16, 12:00 am
        Place: DIPC (Josebe Olarra Auditorium)
        Title: Analysis of Local Descriptors of Dynamic and Nondynamic Correlation
        Speaker: Javier Dominguez
      • Date: April 4, 11:00 am
        Place: Kimika Fakultatea (Sala de Actos)
        Title: Redefining the dielectric response of nanoconfined liquids: insights from water
        Speaker: Jon Zubeltzu
      • Date: March 21, 10:00 am
        Place: DIPC1 (Sala de Conferencias Josebe Olarra Lizarralde)
        Title: Modelling of the elec. structure and spin conversion processes in triangular-shaped organic systems
        Speaker: Gaetano Ricci
      • Date: March 7, 11:00 am
        Place: DIPC1 (Sala de Conferencias Josebe Olarra Lizarralde)
        Title: Simulation of Ionic Liquids for Energy Applications
        Speaker: Hadrián Montes Campos

    2024

      • Date: October 4, 12:00 pm
        Title: Concepts of Orbital Entanglement and Correlation in Quantum Chemistry
        Speaker: Lexin Ding
      • Date: October 3, 12:00 pm
        Title: Quantum Anamorphosis: A Novel Quantum Chemical Route for Predicting Magnetic Interactions in Polynuclear Transition Metal Clusters
        Speaker: Giovanni Li Manni
      • Date: September 13, 12:00 pm
        Title: Understanding Physicochemical properties of the Biomolecules/Biomimetics through Molecular Modeling
        Speaker: Nicholus Bhattacharjee
      • Date: June 14, 12:00 pm
        Title: Understanding crystallization in solution and at interfaces from first principles
        Speaker: Pablo Piaggi
      • Date: May 31, 12:00 pm
        Title: Projection technique for the g-matrix calculation
        Speaker: Antonio Cebreiro
      • Date: May 10, 12:00 pm
        Title: Interactions between electron-deficient systems. Interesting peculiarities
        Speaker: Manuel Yanez
      • Date: May 3, 12:00 pm
        Title: Exploring the PEMFC Triple Phase Boundary: A Theoretical-Experimental Analysis
        Speaker: Juan Carlos Jiménez
      • Date: April 26, 12:00 pm
        Title: Quadruple bonding between main-group atoms and the peculiar bonding of fluorine anion F-
        Speaker: Gernot Frenking
      • Date: March 8, 12:00 pm
        Title: Asymmetric dilanthanide clusters as platforms for addressable qubits
        Speaker: Hanae Bouhlejour
      • Date: February 23, 12:00 pm
        Title: Computational protein design and engineering
        Speaker: Francesca Peccati
      • Date: February 8, 12:00 pm
        Title: Excited states by coupling PNOFs with the ERPA (2311.05504)
        Speaker: Juan Felipe Huan Lew Yee
      • Date: January 26, 12:00 pm
        Title: Time evolution of natural orbitals in ab initio molecular dynamics (2311.04802, 2312.07163)
        Speaker: Mario Piris

    2023

      • Date: December 15, 12:00 pm
        Title: Electron spin relaxation in boron-doped graphene nanofragments
        Speaker: Roberto Alvarez Boto
      • Date: November 24, 12:00 pm
        Title: Rules governing metal coordination in clusters from Aβ-Zn(II) complexes from quantum mechanical calculations
        Speaker: Julen Aduriz
      • Date: November 10, 12:00 pm
        Title: Multi-Scale Theoretical Investigation of the Linear and Nonlinear Optical Responses of Di-8-ANEPPS Embedded in Complex Environments: on the Way to Explore the Complexity of Cell Membranes
        Speaker: Charlotte Bouquiaux
      • Date: October 27, 12:00 pm
        Title: Computational characterization of the reaction mechanisms for the polymerization of glycidol with B(C6F5)3 and Lewis bases.
        Speaker: Xuban Gastearena
      • Date: October 20, 12:00 pm
        Title: Electron Correlation: Measures & Diagnostics
        Speaker: Eduard Matito
      • Date: June 15, 12:00 pm
        Title: Unveiling electron correlation from approximate Coulomb Holes
        Speaker: Markel Gonzalez de Txabarri
      • Date: June 2, 11:00 am
        Title: Unraveling Entropy: From origins to protein folding
        Speaker: David Silva
      • Date: May 18, 12:00 pm
        Title: Ground and Excited State Aromaticity as a Strategy to Design Singlet Fission
        Speaker: Juan Carlos Roldao
      • Date: May 5, 12:00 pm
        Title: Electronic structure method development
        Speaker: Andrei Palau
      • Date: April 21, 12:00 pm
        Title: Redox photoactivation of metal-complexes bearing flavins
        Speaker: Juan Sanchez
      • Date: April 5, 12:00 pm
        Title: Development of new density functional approximations
        Speaker: Javier Dominguez
      • Date: March 10, 12:00 pm
        Title: Graphene nanofragments for quantum computation
        Speaker: Roberto Alvarez Boto
      • Date: February 24, 12:00 pm
        Title: Hydrongen Tunneling in Catalytic Hydrolysis and Alchoholysis of Silane
        Speaker: Jon Mattin Matxain
      • Date: February 10, 12:00 pm
        Title: Metal-based prodrugs for cancer chemotherapy
        Speaker: Maria Jesus Moran
      • Date: January 27, 12:00 pm
        Title: How reliable are modern density functionals to simulate vibrational spectroscopies?
        Speaker: Eduard Matito
      • Date: January 13, 12:00 pm
        Title: Current developments: mingled methods for the treatment of electron correlation
        Speaker: José Aarón Rodríguez Jiménez
        Title: An Alternative Approach to the g-Matrix: Theory and Applications
        Speaker: Antonio Cebreiro

    2022

      • Date: December 16, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Ligand binding free energies for drug discovery: A Bayesian network-wide analysis
        Speaker: Mario Fernandez Pendas
      • Date: November 25, 12:00 pm.
        Title: An alternative approach to the g-matrix: theory and applications
        Speaker: Antonio Cebreiro
        Title: Pt:Ge ratio as a lever of activity and selectivity control of PtGe clusters
        Speaker: Elisa Jimenez
      • Date: November 2, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Performance of PNOF on the charge delocalization error (JCP154.064102)
        Speaker: Juan Felipe Huan Lew Yee
        Title: Gold compounds for the bio orthogonal chemical modification of proteins
        Speaker: Raphael De Paiva
      • Date: October 14, 12:00 pm.
        Title: DFT study on amyloid beta-zinc coordination
        Speaker: Julen Aduriz
        Title: Global Natural Orbital Functional (PRL127.233001, JCP156.214102)
        Speaker: Mario Piris
      • Date: September 30, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Entropy Production and Quantum Effects in Nanothermodynamics
        Speaker: Vladimiro Mujica
      • Date: May 20, 10:00 am.
        Title: Ge as a promoter for the catalytic oxidation of CO by Pt clusters
        Speaker: Andoni Ugartemendia
        Title: Chirality transfer phenomena mediated by plasmonic electromagnetic fields
        Speaker: Jesus M. Ugalde
      • Date: May 6, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Electronic couplings and interactions in rubrene crystal
        Speaker: Aitor Díaz-Andrés
        Title: Floating functions method to correct the out-of-plane bending frequencies issue
        Speaker: Rubén Ferradás
      • Date: April 8, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Natural-orbital based multireference diagnostic for wavefunction methods
        Speaker: Xiang Xu
        Title: The strength of a chemical bond
        Speaker: Gernot Frenking
      • Date: March 24, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Spurious oscillations Affecting the Nuclear Derivatives in KS-DFT
        Speaker: Sebastian P. Sitkiewicz
        Title: Flavin-photocatalyzed activation of metal-based anticancer complexes: a brief summary of the last 5 years
        Speaker: Luca Salassa
      • Date: March 18, 11:00 am. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Lowest lying states of X-3 triangles. (X=Al,Ga,In,Tl) Can we determine the origin of their Aromaticity?
        Speaker: Txema Mercero
        Title: Aluminum compounds & Entropy
        Speaker: David Silva Brea
      • Date: February 25, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Liquid-liquid phase separation from composition alone
        Speaker: David de Sancho
      • Date: February 11, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Triplet Excitonic States Character Description in Perylenebismide Dimers
        Speaker: María Zubiria
        Title: Molecular dynamics simulations of solid-state electrolytes for batteries
        Speaker: Javier Carrasco (CIC EnergiGUNE)
      • Date: January 28, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: A perspective of the KT group: Map of the Group, Research Lines and Overlaps, and Dissemination/Transference Strategies
        Speakers: Xabier Lopez; Jon Mattin Matxain

    2021

      • Date: December 15, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Gallium Arsenide Clusters: On the Doping of Ga12As12
        Speaker: Aarón Rodríguez Jiménez
        Title: Metalloenzyme Design by Directed Evolution and Computation
        Speaker: Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés (CIC BioGUNE)
      • Date: November 17, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: The Intriguing Aromaticity of (Sub)Phthalocyanines
        Speaker: Silvia Escayola
        Title: Delocalization Errors in Density Functional Approximations
        Speaker: Eloy Ramos-Córdoba
      • Date: November 3, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Time-resolved spin-orbit effects in hydrogen halides
        Speaker: Antonio Cebreiro
      • Date: October 20, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Anticancer and Photophysical properties of a N^C^N-coordinated Pt(II) complex
        Speaker: Stefano Scoditti
        Title: Ab initio spin dynamics in single molecule magnets
        Speaker: Daniel Reta
      • Date: October 6, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Effect of molecular structure in the chain mobility of dichalcogenide-based polymers with self-healing capacity
        Speaker: Mikel Irigoyen
        Title: X-rays to probe the biological life of inorganic systems
        Speaker: Carlos Sánchez
      • Date: June 9, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Chemical tuning of supramolecular excited states in a thiophene cage geometry
        Speaker: Claire Tonnelé
        Title: New insights on the interaction of phenanthroline based ligands and metal complexes and polyoxometalates with dna targets
        Speaker: Adriá Gil-Mestres
      • Date: May 26, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Impact of Van der Waals interactions on structural and nonlinear optical properties of azobenzene switches
        Speaker: Carmelo Naim
        Title: Where’s the spin? A DFT Study of Mixed-Valence Cyanide-Bridged Ruthenium Polypyridines
        Speaker: German Pieslinger
      • Date: May 12, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Al-induced conformational changes in neuropeptide fragments: enthalpy-entropy compensation
        Speaker: David Silva
        Title: Intramolecular Singlet Fission: Insights from Quantum Dynamical Simulations
        Speaker: Pedro B. Coto
      • Date: April 28, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Few electron systems confined in Gaussian potential wells: connection to Hooke atoms
        Speaker: Xabier Telleria
        Title: NCIPLOT4 – A new step toward the quantitative analysis of noncovalent interactions
        Speaker: Roberto Álvarez Boto
      • Date: April 14, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Recent developments for the study of molecular photophysics
        Speaker: David Casanova
        Title: TBA
        Speaker: José Lanuza
      • Date: March 31, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: LS-DFT method to study duplex- and G-Quadruplex-DNA interacting Mo-based ligand
        Speaker: Iker Ortiz de Luzuriaga
        Title: Computational approach to the synthesis of phosphaphenalenes
        Speaker: Abel De Cózar
      • Date: February 24, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Computational Study of pincer-metal interactions for self-healing polymers
        Speaker: Maialen Galdeano
        Title: Introduction to PyQchem: a python interface for Q-Chem
        Speaker: Abel Carreras
      • Date: February 10, 12:00 pm. (EHU Blackboard Collaborate)
        Title: Structural and conformational study of FMN-containing miniSOG
        Speaker: Oksana Azpitarte
        Title: Deciphering Electron Correlation: Range Separation of the Coulomb Hole
        Speaker: Eduard Matito
      • Date: January 27, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Conjugated organic diradicals and polyradicals: electronic structure and photophysics
        Speaker: María E. Sandoval-Salinas

    2020

      • Date: December 16, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Doping platinum with germanium: a novel way to mitigate the CO poisoning
        Speaker: Andoni Ugartemendia
        Title: Double excitations in BODIPY and their impact on low-lying excited states
        Speaker: Verònica Postils Ribó
      • Date: December 2, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Formation of one-dimensional coordination polymers in molecular junctions
        Speaker: Rubén Ferradás
      • Date: November 18, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: The Role of CT States in Molecular excimers
        Speaker: Maria Zubiria
        Title: Understanding the mol. basis of anion selectivity in ClC-ec1 ion channels using MD
        Speaker: Gabriele dalla Torre
      • Date: November 4, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Kinetic and thermodynamic hysteresis in thermal clustering of gold nanoparticles.
        Speaker: Joscha Kruse
        Title: AdaptiveMasterMSM, a Python package for adaptive sampling simulations
        Speaker: Ion Mitxelena
      • Date: October 21, 12:00 pm. (Zoom Meeting)
        Title: Computer simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins in the hypoxic response
        Speaker: Irene Ruiz
        Title: Surprising insights on Protein aggregation and Protein absorption
        Speaker: Ivan Coluzza
      • Date: October 7, 12:00 pm (Zoom Meeting).
        Title: A minimal dispersion model based on molecular hydrogen
        Speaker: Xiang Xu
        Title: Determinants of reversibility in amyloid formation from molecular simulations
        Speaker: Mario Fernandez Pendás
      • Date: March 11, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Adsorption of CO2 and Alcohols on Graphene
        Speaker: Ronen Zangi
      • Date: March 4, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Development and applications of natural orbital functional theory
        Speaker: Ion Mitxelena
      • Date: February 12, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Flavin catalysis for nanozymes
        Speaker: Álvaro Martínez
      • Date: January 15, 12pm.
        Title: A computational mechanistic study of non-classical platinum anticancer drugs
        Speaker: Eslam Moustafa

    2019

      • Date: December 18, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Phosphate Hydrolysis Catalyzed by Molybdenum(VI) Species
        Speaker: Jose Lanuza
      • Date: December 4, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Theoretical approach to II-VI nanoclusters in ionic liquids
        Speaker: Jon Zubeltzu
      • Date: November 20, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Diselenide bond as an alternative to disulfide bond in self-healing materials
        Speaker: Mikel Irigoyen
      • Date: November 5, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Magnetic phase diagrams for few-electron-systems confined in gaussian potentials
        Speaker: Xabier Telleria
      • Date: October 23, 12:00 pm.
        Title: DFT and semi-empirical methods to study duplex- and G-quadruplex-DNA interacting Mo-based drug
        Speaker: Iker Ortiz de Luzuriaga
      • Date: September 25, 12:00 pm
        Title: Interactions and ordering of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids around Metal Nanoparticles
        Speaker: Mohamed Ahmed Nosir
      • Date: September 11, 12:00 pm.
        Title: Natural Orbital Functional for Multiplets (PRA100.032508)
        Speaker: Mario Piris