Mats H. M. Olsson

		Mats H. M. Olsson
		Position:	Research Associate
		Address:	University of Southern California, 3620 McClintock ave. Department of Chemistry, SGM 418 Los Angeles, CA 900 89
		Phone:	USA (213) 740 7671
		Fax:	USA (213) 740 2701
		E-mail:	molsson@usc.edu
		WWW:	http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~molsson/
		CV:	klick for CV

Under construction

The pumping and gating mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase - development and application of an efficient approach
Trying to simulate and explain the unusually large KIE i lipoxygenase
Contributions to catalysis; solvation, protein dynamics and electrostatics
Developing an approach to calculate consistent free energies for QM/MM methods and application to proteins and condensed phase
Inner- and outer-sphere reorganisation energies
Reduction potential differences between proteins
The function and structure of electron transfer proteins
Sulfur containing copper complexes
Strain energies
The electronic coupling element in electron transfer

Molecular Dynamics
Monte Carlo
Empirical valence bond
QM/MM hybrid methods
Density Functional Theory (B3LYP, FDFT - frozen density functional theory)
Ab initio quantum chemistry (HF to CASPT2, with a little touch of Coupled Cluster)
Quantum classical path
Simplified electrostatic models