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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
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Overview

Ivo H. M. van Stokkum is a researcher affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their work spans several main fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Neuroscience. Within these broad domains, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, along with Plant Science and Biophysics.

The primary areas of research focus on topics such as Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Light effects on plants, and Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research. Additional interests include Algal biology and biofuel production and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies.

The researcher has contributed numerous articles to various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • iScience
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Photosynthesis Research

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ivo H. M. van Stokkum are:

  • Pyglotaran: a lego-like Python framework for global and target analysis of time-resolved spectra, 2023, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
  • Energy transfer and trapping in photosystem I with and without chlorophyll-f, 2023, iScience
  • Confinement in crystal lattice alters entire photocycle pathway of the Photoactive Yellow Protein, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Harvesting far-red light: Functional integration of chlorophyll f into Photosystem I complexes of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Unraveling the Excited-State Dynamics and Light-Harvesting Functions of Xanthophylls in Light-Harvesting Complex II Using Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

They have collaborated extensively with a number of fellow researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • John T. M. Kennis
  • Miroslav Kloz
  • Petar H. Lambrev
  • Jörn Weißenborn
  • Avratanu Biswas

Best Publications

  • Global and target analysis of time-resolved spectra

    Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Delmar S. Larsen;Rienk van Grondelle

  • Glotaran: A Java-Based Graphical User Interface for the R Package TIMP

    Joris J. Snellenburg;Sergey Laptenok;Ralf Seger;Katharine M. Mullen

  • Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants

    Alexander V. Ruban;Rudi Berera;Cristian Ilioaia;Cristian Ilioaia;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum

  • Estimation of protein secondary structure and error analysis from circular dichroism spectra.

    Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Hans J.W. Spoelder;Michael Bloemendal;Rienk van Grondelle

  • An unusual pathway of excitation energy deactivation in carotenoids: Singlet-to-triplet conversion on an ultrafast timescale in a photosynthetic antenna

    Claudiu C. Gradinaru;John T. M. Kennis;Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum

  • Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain of phototropin, a plant blue-light photoreceptor.

    John T M Kennis;Sean Crosson;Magdalena Gauden;Ivo H M van Stokkum

  • TIMP: An R Package for Modeling Multi-way Spectroscopic Measurements

    Katharine M. Mullen;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum

  • Hydrogen-bond switching through a radical pair mechanism in a flavin-binding photoreceptor

    Magdalena Gauden;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Jason M. Key;Daniel Ch. Lührs

  • An alternative carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer pathway in photosynthetic light harvesting

    Emmanouil Papagiannakis;John T. M. Kennis;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Time-resolved fluorescence emission measurements of photosystem I particles of various cyanobacteria: a unified compartmental model.

    Bas Gobets;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Matthias Rögner;Jochen Kruip

  • Initial electron donor and acceptor in isolated Photosystem II reaction centers identified with femtosecond mid-IR spectroscopy

    Marie Louise Groot;Natalia P. Pawlowicz;Luuk J. G. W. van Wilderen;Jacques Breton

  • Ultrafast energy-electron transfer cascade in a multichromophoric light-harvesting molecular square.

    Armin Sautter;Basak Kükrer Kaletas;Dietmar G. Schmid;Rainer Dobrawa

  • Photocycle of the flavin-binding photoreceptor AppA, a bacterial transcriptional antirepressor of photosynthesis genes.

    Magdalena Gauden;Sergey Yeremenko;Wouter Laan;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum

  • Spectroscopic characterization of the excitation energy transfer in the fucoxanthin-chlorophyll protein of diatoms.

    Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Holger Fey;Claudia Büchel

  • Assessment of heat resistance of bacterial spores from food product isolates by fluorescence monitoring of dipicolinic acid release.

    Remco Kort;Andrea C. O'Brien;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Suus J. C. M. Oomes

  • Identifying the Pathways of Energy Transfer between Carotenoids and Chlorophylls in LHCII and CP29. A Multicolor, Femtosecond Pump-Probe Study

    Unknown

  • Site, rate, and mechanism of photoprotective quenching in cyanobacteria.

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  • Excited state dynamics of β-carotene explored with dispersed multi-pulse transient absorption

    Delmar S. Larsen;Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Mikas Vengris

  • Förster excitation energy transfer in peridinin-chlorophyll-a-protein

    Foske J. Kleima;Eckhard Hofmann;Bas Gobets;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum

  • Uncovering the hidden ground state of green fluorescent protein

    John T. M. Kennis;Delmar S. Larsen;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Mikas Vengris

  • Proton-transfer and hydrogen-bond interactions determine fluorescence quantum yield and photochemical efficiency of bacteriophytochrome

    K. C. Toh;Emina A. Stojković;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Keith Moffat

  • Two different charge separation pathways in photosystem II.

    Elisabet Romero;Ivo H M van Stokkum;Vladimir I Novoderezhkin;Jan P Dekker

Frequent Co-Authors

Rienk van Grondelle
Rienk van Grondelle Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
John T. M. Kennis
John T. M. Kennis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Herbert van Amerongen
Herbert van Amerongen Wageningen University & Research
Klaas J. Hellingwerf
Klaas J. Hellingwerf University of Amsterdam
Roberta Croce
Roberta Croce Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan P. Dekker
Jan P. Dekker Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Delmar S. Larsen
Delmar S. Larsen University of California, Davis
Keith Moffat
Keith Moffat University of Chicago
Peter Hegemann
Peter Hegemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University

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