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Spiridoula Matsika

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Spiridoula Matsika

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Chemistry

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CHEM 3405

Physical Chemistry of Biomolecules

Undergraduate

CHEM 5301

Quantum Chemistry

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Sorour, M., Kistler, K., Marcus, A., & Matsika, S. (2021). Accurate Modeling of Excitonic Coupling in Cyanine Dye Cy3. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 125(36), 7852-7866. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05556.

  • Anstöter, C., Dellostritto, M., Klein, M., & Matsika, S. (2021). Modeling the Ultrafast Electron Attachment Dynamics of Solvated Uracil. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 125(32), 6995-7003. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05288.

  • Matsika, S. (2021). Electronic Structure Methods for the Description of Nonadiabatic Effects and Conical Intersections. Chemical Reviews, 121(15), 9407-9449. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00074.

  • Abou-Hatab, S., Carnevale, V., & Matsika, S. (2021). Modeling solvation effects on absorption and fluorescence spectra of indole in aqueous solution. Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(6). doi: 10.1063/5.0038342.

  • Zuluaga, C., Spata, V., & Matsika, S. (2021). Benchmarking Quantum Mechanical Methods for the Description of Charge-Transfer States in π-Stacked Nucleobases. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 17(1), 376-387. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00973.

  • Chakraborty, P., Liu, Y., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2021). Effect of dynamic correlation on the ultrafast relaxation of uracil in the gas phase. Faraday Discussions, 228, 266-285. doi: 10.1039/d0fd00110d.

  • Chakraborty, P., Liu, Y., McClung, S., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2021). Time Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy as a Test of Electronic Structure and Nonadiabatic Dynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12, 5099-5104. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00926.

  • Allum, F., Calegari, F., Cavaletto, S., Centurion, M., Dixit, G., Fasshauer, E., Fischer, I., Forbes, R., Grell, G., Ivanov, M., Kirrander, A., Kornilov, O., Küpper, J., Kuttner, C., Marangos, J., Matsika, S., Maxwell, A., Minns, R., Carrascosa, A.M., Natan, A., Neumark, D., Odate, A., Oyarzún, A., Palacios, A., Pfeifer, T., Röder, A., Rost, J., Rouzée, A., Stolow, A., Titov, E., Weber, P., & Wolf, T. (2021). Ultrafast X-ray science: General discussion. Faraday Discussions, 228, 597-621. doi: 10.1039/D1FD90026A.

  • Ashfold, M., Chergui, M., Fischer, I., Ge, L., Grell, G., Ivanov, M., Kirrander, A., Kornilov, O., Krishnan, S., Küpper, J., Kuttner, C., Makhija, V., Martín, F., Matsika, S., Minns, R., Natan, A., Neumark, D., Palacios, A., Pratt, S., Röder, A., Rost, J., Ruberti, M., Stolow, A., Titov, E., & Young, L. (2021). Time-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy: General discussion. Faraday Discussions, 228, 329-348. doi: 10.1039/D1FD90024B.

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2020). Stabilization of the Triplet Biradical Intermediate of 5-Methylcytosine Enhances Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer (CPD) Formation in DNA. Chemistry - a European Journal, 26(62), 14181-14186. doi: 10.1002/chem.202002834.

  • Anstöter, C. & Matsika, S. (2020). Understanding the Interplay between the Nonvalence and Valence States of the Uracil Anion upon Monohydration. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(44), 9237-9243. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07407.

  • Thodika, M., MacKouse, N., & Matsika, S. (2020). Description of Two-Particle One-Hole Electronic Resonances Using Orbital Stabilization Methods. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(43), 9011-9020. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07904.

  • Liu, Y., Chakraborty, P., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2020). Excited state dynamics of cis, cis -1,3-cyclooctadiene: UV pump VUV probe time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(7). doi: 10.1063/5.0006920.

  • Chakraborty, P., Liu, Y., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2020). Excited state dynamics of cis, cis-1,3-cyclooctadiene: Non-adiabatic trajectory surface hopping. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(17). doi: 10.1063/5.0005558.

  • Lischka, H., Shepard, R., Müller, T., Szalay, P., Pitzer, R., Aquino, A., Nascimento, M.A.D., Barbatti, M., Belcher, L., Blaudeau, J., Borges, I., Brozell, S., Carter, E., Das, A., Gidofalvi, G., González, L., Hase, W., Kedziora, G., Kertesz, M., Kossoski, F., Machado, F., Matsika, S., Monte, S.D., Nachtigallová, D., Nieman, R., Oppel, M., Parish, C., Plasser, F., Spada, R., Stahlberg, E., Ventura, E., Yarkony, D., & Zhang, Z. (2020). The generality of the GUGA MRCI approach in COLUMBUS for treating complex quantum chemistry. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(13). doi: 10.1063/1.5144267.

  • Thodika, M., Fennimore, M., Karsili, T., & Matsika, S. (2019). Comparative study of methodologies for calculating metastable states of small to medium-sized molecules. Journal of Chemical Physics, 151(24). doi: 10.1063/1.5134700.

  • Cheng, C., Vindel-Zandbergen, P., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2019). Electron correlation in channel-resolved strong-field molecular double ionization. Physical Review A, 100(5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.053405.

  • Abou-Hatab, S. & Matsika, S. (2019). Theoretical Investigation of Positional Substitution and Solvent Effects on n-Cyanoindole Fluorescent Probes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123(34), 7424-7435. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b05961.

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2019). Corrigendum to: Photochemical Formation of Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers in DNA through Electron Transfer from a Flanking Base (ChemPhysChem, (2018), 19, 13, (1568-1571), 10.1002/cphc.201800151). ChemPhysChem, 20(11), 1545. doi: 10.1002/cphc.201900418.

  • Li, H., Kamasah, A., Matsika, S., & Suits, A. (2019). Intersystem crossing in the exit channel. Nature Chemistry, 11(2), 123-128. doi: 10.1038/s41557-018-0186-5.

  • Ashfold, M., Bai, S., Bradforth, S., Chabera, P., Cina, J., Crespo-Hernández, C., Rodrigues, N.D.N., Duchi, M., Fleming, G., Grieco, C., Habershon, S., Haggmark, M., Hammes-Schiffer, S., Hsieh, S., Kohler, B., Lokstein, H., Marcus, A., Martinez, T., Matsika, S., Oliver, T., Ortiz-Rodríguez, L., Polivka, T., Son, M., Stavros, V., Steen, C., Turner, M., Walla, P., & Woolley, J. (2019). Photo-protection/photo-damage in natural systems: General discussion. Faraday Discussions, 216, 538-563. doi: 10.1039/C9FD90031D.

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2019). Erratum: Role of charge transfer states into the formation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA (Faraday Discussions (2019) DOI: 10.1039/C8FD00184G). Faraday Discussions, 216, 574-579. doi: 10.1039/C9FD90047K.

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2019). Role of charge transfer states into the formation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in DNA. Faraday Discussions, 216, 507-519. doi: 10.1039/c8fd00184g.

  • Karsili, T., Thodika, M., Nguyen, L., & Matsika, S. (2018). The origin of fluorescence in DNA thio-analogues. Chemical Physics, 515, 434-440. doi: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.08.049.

  • Gelin, M., Matsika, S., Sobolewski, A., & Tanimura, Y. (2018). Ultrafast photoinduced processes in polyatomic molecules: Electronic structure, dynamics and spectroscopy. Chemical Physics, 515, 1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.10.012.

  • Horton, S., Liu, Y., Chakraborty, P., Marquetand, P., Rozgonyi, T., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2018). Strong-field- versus weak-field-ionization pump-probe spectroscopy. Physical Review A, 98(5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053416.

  • Weinacht, T., Matsika, S., Zhao, A., & Cheng, C. (2018). Strong field double ionization of molecules. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 256. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000447609103644&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Matsika, S. (2018). Employing electronic structure and dynamics calculations to interpret weak and strong field ionization pump probe experiments. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 256. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000447609103490&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Matsika, S., Fennimore, M., & Karsili, T. (2018). Theoretical description of nonadiabatic events in photon and electron driven processes. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 256. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000447609103519&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Matsika, S. & Krylov, A. (2018). Introduction: Theoretical Modeling of Excited State Processes. Chemical Reviews, 118(15), 6925-6926. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00436.

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2018). Photochemical Formation of Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers in DNA through Electron Transfer from a Flanking Base. ChemPhysChem, 19(13), 1568-1571. doi: 10.1002/cphc.201800151.

  • Fennimore, M. & Matsika, S. (2018). Electronic Resonances of Nucleobases Using Stabilization Methods. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122(16), 4048-4057. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01523.

  • Zhao, A., Cheng, C., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2018). Quadruple coincidence measurement of electron correlation in strong-field molecular double ionization. Physical Review A, 97(4). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043412.

  • Karsili, T., Marchetti, B., & Matsika, S. (2018). Origins of Photodamage in Pheomelanin Constituents: Photochemistry of 4-Hydroxybenzothiazole. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122(8), 1986-1993. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09690.

  • Faraji, S., Matsika, S., & Krylov, A. (2018). Calculations of non-adiabatic couplings within equation-of-motion coupled-cluster framework: Theory, implementation, and validation against multi-reference methods. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(4). doi: 10.1063/1.5009433.

  • Chakraborty, P., Karsili, T., Marchetti, B., & Matsika, S. (2018). Mechanistic insights into photoinduced damage of DNA and RNA nucleobases in the gas phase and in bulk solution. Faraday Discussions, 207, 329-350. doi: 10.1039/c7fd00188f.

  • Karsili, T., Fennimore, M., & Matsika, S. (2018). Electron-induced origins of prebiotic building blocks of sugars: Mechanism of self-reactions of a methanol anion dimer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(18), 12599-12607. doi: 10.1039/c8cp00148k.

  • Fennimore, M.A. & Matsika, S. (2017). Core-excited and shape resonances of uracil (vol 18, pg 30536, 2016). PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 19(42), 29005-29006. 10.1039/c7cp90241g

  • Horton, S., Liu, Y., Chakraborty, P., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2017). Vibrationally assisted below-threshold ionization. Physical Review A, 95(6). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.063413.

  • Keefer, D., Thallmair, S., Matsika, S., & Vivie-Riedle, R.D. (2017). Controlling Photorelaxation in Uracil with Shaped Laser Pulses: A Theoretical Assessment. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(14), 5061-5066. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12033.

  • Jones, C., Spata, V., & Matsika, S. (2017). Excited-state investigation of the ultrafast electrocyclization reaction for a molecular photochromic switch. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 253. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000430569106607&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Keefer, D., Thallmair, S., Matsika, S., & Vivie-Riedle, R.d. (2017). Controlling the photostability of uracil with shaped light fields. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 253. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000430569106201&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Abou-Hatab, S., Spata, V., & Matsika, S. (2017). Substituent Effects on the Absorption and Fluorescence Properties of Anthracene. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 121(6), 1213-1222. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b12031.

  • Horton, S., Liu, Y., Chakraborty, P., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2017). Ultrafast internal conversion dynamics of highly excited pyrrole studied with VUV/UV pump probe spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 146(6). doi: 10.1063/1.4975765.

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2017). Conformational and electronic effects on the formation of anti cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in G-quadruplex structures. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(4), 3325-3336. doi: 10.1039/c6cp05604k.

  • Fennimore, M., Karsili, T., & Matsika, S. (2017). Mechanisms of H and CO loss from the uracil nucleobase following low energy electron irradiation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(26), 17233-17241. doi: 10.1039/c7cp01345k.