Prof. Dr. Carolin Müller

Professorship for the Theory of Excited Electronic States

Assistant professors

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Nägelsbachstraße 25 91052 Erlangen

02.2012, 02

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Email: carolin.cpc.mueller@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85-20406
URL: www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu/research/centers/ccc/groups/cpc-group/

Consultation Hours

Tuesday: 16:00 - 17:00 nach Vereinbarung

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Publications

Biswas P., Özçelik A., Hartinger M., Groß N., Hampel F., Müller C., Dube H.:
A supercharged molecular motor operating by constitutional alteration and proton transfer
In: Nature Chemistry (2026)
ISSN: 1755-4330
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-026-02141-6
Forster C., Müller C.:
From handbooks to high-throughput: rule-based prediction of electronic absorption maxima from SMILES with ChromoPredict
In: Digital Discovery 5 (2026), p. 98-107
ISSN: 2635-098X
DOI: 10.1039/d5dd00382b
Hartinger M., Dube H., Müller C.:
From Excited-State Dynamics to Product Selectivity: Theoretical Insights into the Photoinduced Chemistry of Aza-Diarylethenes
In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2026)
ISSN: 1463-9076
DOI: 10.1039/D6CP01330A
Henkes T., Dral PO., Müller C.:
Machine learning electronic structure methods
In: Handbook of Electronic Structure Theory, 2026, p. 289-327 (Methods and Applications)
ISBN: 9780443265969
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-26596-9.00009-0
Höllring K., Röhrkasten T., Müller C.:
shnitsel-tools: a toolkit for the full lifecycle of surface hopping trajectory data
In: Digital Discovery 5 (2026), p. 2016-2027
ISSN: 2635-098X
DOI: 10.1039/d5dd00299k
Langford D., Weiß R., Krug M., Urbani M., Zahl A., Müller C., Clark T., Torres T., Guldi DM.:
Activation volumes associated with excited-state electron transfer across amidinium-carboxylate bridge
In: Chemical Science 17 (2026), p. 10479-10488
ISSN: 2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/d6sc00291a
Soares TA., Nunes-Alves A., Bereau T., Friederich P., Gryn’ova G., Müller C., Wade RC., Merz K.:
Mapping the Molecular Universe: Exploring Chemical Compound Space by Multiscale High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning
In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 66 (2026), p. 6809-6813
ISSN: 1549-9596
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.6c01719
Thomisch L., Blechschmidt L., Klosterhalfen N., Köhler P., Görls H., Tran JH., Plitzko J., Dietzek-Ivanšić B., Müller C., Schulz M.:
Light-Driven Proton-Coupled Two-Electron Ligand Reduction Causes the Rearrangement of the Coordination Sphere in Cu(I) 4H-Imidazolato Complexes
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 148 (2026), p. 21633-21645
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c00920

Barra L., Dierkes G., Hammer S., Hoch C., Jahn U., Meermann B., Müller C., Jungfer MR., Tambornino F.:
Aus der Forschung
In: Nachrichten aus der Chemie 73 (2025), p. 48-51
ISSN: 1439-9598
DOI: 10.1002/nadc.20254154495
Curth R., Röhrkasten T., Müller C., Westermayr J.:
Surface Hopping Nested Instances Training Set for Excited-state Learning
In: Scientific Data (2025)
ISSN: 2052-4463
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05443-5
Forster C., Müller C.:
From Handbooks to High-Throughput: Rule-Based Prediction of Electronic Absorption Maxima from SMILES with ChromoPredict
In: Digital Discovery (2025)
ISSN: 2635-098X
DOI: 10.1039/D5DD00382B
Harrer E., Müller C., Dube H., Zahn D.:
Assessing the Dynamics of Hemithioindigo-Based Photoswitches Using Multistate Molecular Mechanics
In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2025), Article No.: acs.jpca.5c04082
ISSN: 1520-5215
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c04082
Hartinger M., Herm M., Schüßlbauer C., Köttner L., Guldi DM., Dube H., Müller C.:
From Triplet to Twist: The Photochemical E/Z‐Isomerization Pathway of the Near‐Infrared Photoswitch peri‐Anthracenethioindigo
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025), Article No.: e202510626
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202510626
Khabibrakhmanov A., Gori M., Müller C., Tkatchenko A.:
Noncovalent Interactions in Density Functional Theory: All the Charge Density We Do Not See
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025), Article No.: jacs.5c13706
ISSN: 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c13706
Koch V., Zeng X., Deckert A., Büttner P., Franz E., Ding F., Anderson MA., Zhang J., Kupfer C., Mack E., Ambasta VK., Duchstein P., Dehm K., Furxhiu S., Zahl A., Frisch J., Hoga F., Stubhan T., Wilks RG., Peng Z., Brummel O., Crisp R., Zahn D., Müller C., Guldi DM., Bär M., Wisser D., Libuda J., Brabec C., Bachmann J.:
Solution ALD of (CH3NH3)(PbI3) Perovskite Thin Films Yields Functional Quality and Stability Superior to Classical Processing
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025), Article No.: e13903
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202513903
Müller C., Sršeň Š., Bachmair B., Crespo-Otero R., Li J., Mausenberger S., Pinheiro Jr. M., Worth G., Lopez SA., Westermayr J.:
Machine Learning for Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics: Best Practices and Recent Progress
In: Chemical Science (2025)
ISSN: 2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05579B
Poltavsky I., Charkin-Gorbulin A., Puleva M., Fonseca G., Batatia I., Browning NJ., Chmiela S., Cui M., Frank JT., Heinen S., Huang B., Käser S., Kabylda A., Khan D., Müller C., Price AJA., Riedmiller K., Töpfer K., Ko TW., Meuwly M., Rupp M., Csányi G., von Lilienfeld OA., Margraf JT., Müller KR., Tkatchenko A.:
Crash testing machine learning force fields for molecules, materials, and interfaces: model analysis in the TEA Challenge 2023
In: Chemical Science (2025)
ISSN: 2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC06529H
Poltavsky I., Puleva M., Charkin-Gorbulin A., Fonseca G., Batatia I., Browning NJ., Chmiela S., Cui M., Frank JT., Heinen S., Huang B., Käser S., Kabylda A., Khan D., Müller C., Price AJA., Riedmiller K., Töpfer K., Ko TW., Meuwly M., Rupp M., Csányi G., von Lilienfeld OA., Margraf JT., Müller KR., Tkatchenko A.:
Crash testing machine learning force fields for molecules, materials, and interfaces: molecular dynamics in the TEA challenge 2023
In: Chemical Science (2025)
ISSN: 2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC06530A
Rocha Ortiz A., Suleymanov AA., Puhlmann P., Krischer D., Müller C., Zahn D., Swager TM., Hirsch A.:
Hexabenzocoronene–Benzimidazole Hybrid Architectures and Faraday Rotation of the First Hexabenzocoronene–Phthalocyanine
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025), Article No.: e22494
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202522494
Schramm S., Müller C., Kramp M., Karothu DP., Zschommler JC., Commins P., Prestel T., Ibl V., Naumov P.:
Green-synthesized single-benzene fluorophores exhibiting room-temperature phosphorescence and solid-state fluorescence for biological and optical applications
In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2025)
ISSN: 2050-7526
DOI: 10.1039/D5TC03134F

Bagemihl B., Müller C., Shillito GE., Hartkorn M., Mengele AK., Kupfer S., Dietzek-Ivanšić B., Rau S.:
Steering Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Intramolecular Photocatalysts by Peripheral Ligand Control
In: ChemistryEurope (2024)
ISSN: 2751-4765
DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202300084
Gryn’ova G., Bereau T., Müller C., Friederich P., Wade RC., Nunes-Alves A., Soares TA., Merz K.:
EDITORIAL: Chemical Compound Space Exploration by Multiscale High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning
In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 64 (2024), p. 5737-5738
ISSN: 1549-9596
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c01300
Mausenberger S., Müller C., Tkatchenko A., Marquetand P., González L., Westermayr J.:
SpaiNN: equivariant message passing for excited-state nonadiabatic molecular dynamics
In: Chemical Science 15 (2024), p. 15880-15890
ISSN: 2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/d4sc04164j

Góger S., Sandonas LM., Müller C., Tkatchenko A.:
Data-driven tailoring of molecular dipole polarizability and frontier orbital energies in chemical compound space
In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 25 (2023), p. 22211-22222
ISSN: 1463-9076
DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02256k
Müller C.:
Illuminating Photodynamics with Machine Learning Techniques
In: Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie e.V. (ed.): Bunsen-Magazin 2023, 2023, p. 191-193 (Bunsen-Magazin 2023, Vol.Bunsen-Magazin 2023)
DOI: 10.26125/0ehr-vk47
URL: https://bunsen.de/bmo/illuminating-photodynamics-with-machine-learning-techniques#c1529
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Müller C., Kaufmann M., Brandon MP., Cullen AA., Dietzek-Ivanšić B., Pryce MT.:
New Twist on the Light-Switch Effect: Controlling the Fate of Excited States with pH in a 4-Hydroxy-thiazol-extended Ruthenium(II) Dppz Complex
In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2023)
ISSN: 1520-5215
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06179

Brueckmann J., Müller C., Maisuradze T., Mengele AK., Nauroozi D., Fauth S., Gruber A., Gräfe S., Leopold K., Kupfer S., Dietzek-Ivansic B., Rau S.:
Pyrimidoquinazolinophenanthroline Opens Next Chapter in Design of Bridging Ligands for Artificial Photosynthesis**
In: Chemistry - A European Journal (2022)
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200766
Brückmann J., Müller C., Friedländer I., Mengele AK., Peneva K., Dietzek-Ivanšić B., Rau S.:
Photocatalytic Reduction of Nicotinamide Co-factor by Perylene Sensitized RhIII Complexes**
In: Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (2022), Article No.: e202201931
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201931
Müller C., Bold S., Chavarot-Kerlidou M., Dietzek-Ivanšić B.:
Photoinduced electron transfer in triazole-bridged donor-acceptor dyads – A critical perspective
In: Coordination Chemistry Reviews 472 (2022), Article No.: 214764
ISSN: 0010-8545
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214764
Müller C., Pascher T., Eriksson A., Chabera P., Uhlig J.:
KiMoPack: A python Package for Kinetic Modeling of the Chemical Mechanism
In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A 126 (2022), p. 4087-4099
ISSN: 1520-5215
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00907
Müller C., Schwab A., Randell NM., Kupfer S., Dietzek-Ivanšić B., Chavarot-Kerlidou M.:
A Combined Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study on a Ruthenium Complex Featuring a π-Extended dppz Ligand for Light-Driven Accumulation of Multiple Reducing Equivalents
In: Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (2022), Article No.: e202103882
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103882
Müller C., Wintergerst P., Nair SS., Meitinger N., Rau S., Dietzek-Ivanšić B.:
Link to glow - iEDDA conjugation of a Ruthenium(II) tetrazine complex leading to dihydropyrazine and pyrazine complexes with improved 1O2 formation ability
In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology 11 (2022), Article No.: 100130
ISSN: 2666-4690
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpap.2022.100130
Pfeffer MG., Müller C., Kastl ETE., Mengele AK., Bagemihl B., Fauth SS., Habermehl J., Petermann L., Waechtler M., Schulz M., Chartrand D., Laverdiere F., Seeber P., Kupfer S., Gräfe S., Hanan GS., Vos JG., Dietzek-Ivansic B., Rau S.:
Active repair of a dinuclear photocatalyst for visible-light-driven hydrogen production
In: Nature Chemistry 14 (2022), p. 500-506
ISSN: 1755-4330
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00860-6
Zedler L., Müller C., Wintergerst P., Mengele AK., Rau S., Dietzek-Ivanšić B.:
Influence of the Linker Chemistry on the Photoinduced Charge-Transfer Dynamics of Hetero-dinuclear Photocatalysts
In: Chemistry - A European Journal 28 (2022), Article No.: e202200490
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200490
Zedler L., Wintergerst P., Mengele AK., Müller C., Li C., Dietzek-Ivanšić B., Rau S.:
Outpacing conventional nicotinamide hydrogenation catalysis by a strongly communicating heterodinuclear photocatalyst
In: Nature Communications 13 (2022), Article No.: 2538
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30147-4

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