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Milen Raytchev


2003 - 2006PhD degree in Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States; Prof. Torsten Fiebig's Group

Dissertation: "DNA on the femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond time scale – a spectroscopic study"

2002 - 2003PhD student in Physics, Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany; Prof. Torsten Fiebig's Group
1996 - 2001MS degree in Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Thesis: "System for automation of the experiment based on network interconnected microcontrollers controlled by a main computer"

Core skillsPhysics, Programming
Publications

1. Wang, Q., Raytchev, M. & Fiebig, T.; Ultrafast energy delocalization and electron transfer dynamics in 2-Aminopurine containing trinucleotides.; Photochemistry and Photobiology; accepted (2007)

2. Buchvarov, I., Wang, Q., Raytchev, M., Trifonov, A. & Fiebig, T.; Electronic Energy Delocalization and Dissipation in Single and Double-Stranded DNA.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; in press (2007)

3. Valis, L. et al.; Base pair motions control the rates and distance dependencies of reductive and oxidative DNA charge transfer.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 103, 10192-10195 (2006)

4. Lewis, F. D. et al.; Dynamics and mechanism of bridge-dependent charge separation in pyrenylurea-nitrobenzene pi-stacked protophanes.; Journal of the American Chemical Society; 128, 4792-4801 (2006)

5. Lewis, F. D. et al.; Crossover from superexchange to hopping as the mechanism for photoinduced charge transfer in DNA hairpin conjugates.; Journal of the American Chemical Society; 128, 791-800 (2006)

6. Trifonov, A. et al.; Ultrafast energy transfer and structural dynamics in DNA.; Journal of Physical Chemistry B; 109, 19490-19495 (2005)

7. Raytchev, M., Mayer, E., Amann, N., Wagenknecht, H. A. & Fiebig, T.; Ultrafast proton-coupled electron-transfer dynamics in pyrene-modified pyrimidine nucleosides: Model studies towards an understanding of reductive electron transport in DNA.; Chemphyschem; 5, 706-712 (2004)

8. Mank, D., Raytchev, M., Amthor, S., Lambert, C. & Fiebig, T.; Femtosecond probing of the excited state absorption and structural relaxation in biphenyl derivatives.; Chemical Physics Letters; 376, 201-206 (2003)

9. Raytchev, M., Pandurski, E., Buchvarov, I., Modrakowski, C. & Fiebig, T.; Bichromophoric interactions and time-dependent excited state mixing in pyrene derivatives. A femtosecond broad-band pump-probe study.; Journal of Physical Chemistry A; 107, 4592-4600 (2003)

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