Team – NHList Lab

The Team

Nanna Holmgaard List

Principal Investigator

Nanna Holmgaard List is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology since September 2021. She holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry (University of Southern Denmark, 2010), a M. Sc. in Interdisciplinary Science Studies (University of Southern Denmark, 2012) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry (University of Southern Denmark, 2016). Previous to joining KTH, she was a VILLUM postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (2017-2021). Nanna’s research interests lie at the intersection of chemistry, biology, molecular physics and computer science.

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Rafael Couto

PostDoc

Rafael Couto received a Bachelors (2011) and Masters (2013) in Chemistry from the Federal University of Goias, Brazil. In 2016, he was awarded a double-degree PhD in the Theoretical Chemistry from both Federal University of Goias (Brazil) and Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). With postdoctoral positions at KTH, Uppsala University and Stockholm
University, his research was related to electronic structure calculations and quantum wave packet dynamics to model x-ray spectroscopy and non-adiabatic wave packet dynamics in polaritonic photochemistry. Currently, Rafael’s research is focused in the development on techniques for non-adiabatic dynamics of complex molecular systems.

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Martin van Horn

PostDoc

Martin van Horn received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam and VU University of Amsterdam. He pursued a PhD degree in the group of Prof. Trond Saue at Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier on the topic “The Validity of the Electric-Dipole Approximation in the Simulation of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy”. He joined KTH as a postdoc in January 2024.

Twana Cheragwandi

PhD student

Twana graduated from KTH with a master degree in engineering physics with a specialization in theory. Since August 2024, he pursues a PhD in theoretical chemistry focusing on theory developments that will help describe and understand what happens dynamically when electronic spin couples to other degrees of freedom in light-induced processes.

Anders Frederiksen

PostDoc

Anders received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from the University of Southern Denmark. After receiving his master’s degree, he moved to Oldenburg Germany to pursue a PhD degree in the group of Prof. Ilia. A. Solov’yov. During his doctoral studies, he was part of the collaborative research centre SFB1372 where he used simulations to investigate the activation mechanism of the cryptochrome 4 protein, which is linked to the magnetoreception of birds. Anders graduated in July 2024, and joined KTH as a postdoc in August 2024. Anders focusses on improving our understanding of certain photoactive proteins and how we may be able to manipulate their excited-state behaviors.