Fysikum congratulates our PhD student Sambit Kumar, who successfully defended his thesis: “Molecular Transients in Photoactive Heterocyclic Systems” on April 11, 2025.
Sambit Kumar with supervisor, opponent and examining committee during the thesis in chemical physics
Supervisor was Michael Odelius.
Faculty opponent was Sebastian Mai (University of Vienna) and participants of the
examining committee were Tore Brinck (KTH), Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen (Lund University), Oriol Vendrell (Heidelberg University).
The photochemistry of energy-rich azides (R-N=N=N) shows great diversity in organic synthesis.
Precise determination of short-lived species is challenging, and theoretical simulations are important for unravelling mechanistic details in the reaction.