معرفی
Karthick Sai Sankar Gupta is the Head of the NMR Facility at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC), Leiden University. His research focuses on advanced NMR spectroscopy techniques applied to biological systems, particularly in understanding structural dynamics of photosynthetic complexes and biomolecules. He leads a team specializing in multidimensional NMR methods, including REDOR and MAS NMR, to study molecular motions and interactions.
Key contributions include elucidating the role of bacteriochlorophyll motion in energy transfer in chlorosomes, hyperpolarization-based proton detection in frozen proteins, and hybrid NMR-TEM approaches for material characterization. His work bridges biophysics, physical chemistry, and structural biology, with applications in understanding photosynthetic mechanisms and molecular dynamics.
- Affiliations: Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC), Leiden University
- Facilities: NMR Facility, ParaNMR Facility
Publications highlight advancements in NMR methodologies and their application to study photosynthetic reaction centers, bacterial cofactors, and biomolecular conformational dynamics. Ongoing research focuses on integrating NMR with computational modeling to address unresolved questions in energy transfer and structural biology.
