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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 5301

Quantum Chemistry

Graduate

CHEM 8302

Computational Chemistry

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Plasser, F., Lischka, H., Shepard, R., Szalay, P.G., Pitzer, R.M., Alves, R.L., Aquino, A.J., Autschbach, J., Barbatti, M., Carvalho, J.R., Chagas, J.C., González, L., Hansen, A., Jayee, B., Kertesz, M., Machado, F.B., Matsika, S., Monte, S.A.d., Mukherjee, S., Nachtigallová, D., Nieman, R., Oliveira, V.P., Oppel, M., Parish, C.A., Pittner, J., Santos, L.G.F.D., Scrinzi, A., Sit, M.K., Spada, R.F., Thodika, M., Valente, D.C., Vázquez-Mayagoitia, Ã., Ventura, E., Westermayr, J., Zaichenko, A., & Zhang, Z. (2025). COLUMBUS─An Efficient and General Program Package for Ground and Excited State Computations Including Spin-Orbit Couplings and Dynamics. J Phys Chem A, 129(28), 6482-6517. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c02047

  • Abeygunewardane, D., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2025). How excitation wavelength affects excited state dynamics in o-nitrophenol: A theoretical perspective. J Chem Phys, 163(2). United States. 10.1063/5.0274633

  • Tripathi, D., Pyla, M., Dutta, A.K., & Matsika, S. (2025). Impact of solvation on the electronic resonances in uracil. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 27(7), 3588-3601. England. 10.1039/d4cp04333b

  • Howe, J., Abou-Hatab, S., & Matsika, S. (2025). Modeling the effect of substituents on the electronically excited states of indole derivatives. J Comput Chem, 46(1), e27502. United States. 10.1002/jcc.27502

  • Pyla, M. & Matsika, S. (2024). Exploring electronic resonances in pyridine: Insights from orbital stabilization techniques. J Chem Phys, 161(15). United States. 10.1063/5.0232581

  • Sorour, M.I., Kistler, K.A., Marcus, A.H., & Matsika, S. (2024). Molecular Dynamical and Quantum Mechanical Exploration of the Site-Specific Dynamics of Cy3 Dimers Internally Linked to dsDNA. J Phys Chem B, 128(32), 7750-7760. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c03115

  • Abou-Hatab, S. & Matsika, S. (2024). Excited state hydrogen or proton transfer pathways in microsolvated n-cyanoindole fluorescent probes. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 26(5), 4511-4523. England. 10.1039/d3cp04844f

  • Sorour, M.I., Marcus, A.H., & Matsika, S. (2023). Unravelling the Origin of the Vibronic Spectral Signatures in an Excitonically Coupled Indocarbocyanine Cy3 Dimer. J Phys Chem A, 127(45), 9530-9540. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06090

  • McClung, S., Abeygunewardane, D., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2023). Excited-state dynamics of o-nitrophenol studied with UV pump-VUV probe time-resolved photoelectron and photoion spectroscopy. J Chem Phys, 158(14), 144303. United States. 10.1063/5.0146399

  • Lee, W. & Matsika, S. (2023). Mechanistic Aspects of the Effect of Flanking Nucleotide Sequence on CPD Formation and CPD Self-Repair in DNA. J Phys Chem B, 127(1), 18-25. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06680

  • Anstöter, C.S., Abou-Hatab, S., Thodika, M., & Matsika, S. (2022). Effective Fragment Potentials for Microsolvated Excited and Anionic States. J Phys Chem A, 126(45), 8508-8518. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06122

  • Sagan, C.R., Anstöter, C.S., Thodika, M., Wilson, K.D., Matsika, S., & Garand, E. (2022). Spectroscopy and Theoretical Modeling of Tetracene Anion Resonances. J Phys Chem Lett, 13(44), 10245-10252. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02931

  • Cheng, C., Singh, V., Matsika, S., & Weinacht, T. (2022). Strong Field Double Ionization of Formaldehyde Investigated Using Momentum Resolved Covariance Imaging and Trajectory Surface Hopping. J Phys Chem A, 126(40), 7399-7406. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04650

  • Chakraborty, P., Liu, Y., McClung, S., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2022). Nonadiabatic Excited State Dynamics of Organic Chromophores: Take-Home Messages. J Phys Chem A, 126(36), 6021-6031. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04671

  • Singh, V., Cheng, C., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2022). Stable excited dication: trapping on the S1 state of formaldehyde dication after strong field ionization. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 24(35), 20701-20708. England. 10.1039/d2cp02604j

  • Sorour, M.I., Marcus, A.H., & Matsika, S. (2022). Modeling the Electronic Absorption Spectra of the Indocarbocyanine Cy3. Molecules, 27(13). Switzerland. 10.3390/molecules27134062

  • Thodika, M. & Matsika, S. (2022). Projected Complex Absorbing Potential Multireference Configuration Interaction Approach for Shape and Feshbach Resonances. J Chem Theory Comput, 18(6), 3377-3390. United States. 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01310

  • Sajeev, Y., Thodika, M., & Matsika, S. (2022). A Unique QP Partitioning and Siegert Width Using Real-Valued Continuum-Remover Potential. J Chem Theory Comput, 18(5), 2863-2874. United States. 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01096

  • Singh, V., Peña, H.A.L., Shusterman, J.M., Vindel-Zandbergen, P., Tibbetts, K.M., & Matsika, S. (2022). Conformer-Specific Dissociation Dynamics in Dimethyl Methylphosphonate Radical Cation. Molecules, 27(7). Switzerland. 10.3390/molecules27072269

  • Vindel-Zandbergen, P., Matsika, S., & Maitra, N.T. (2022). Exact-Factorization-Based Surface Hopping for Multistate Dynamics. J Phys Chem Lett, 13(7), 1785-1790. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c04132

  • Sorour, M.I., Kistler, K.A., Marcus, A.H., & Matsika, S. (2021). Accurate Modeling of Excitonic Coupling in Cyanine Dye Cy3. J Phys Chem A, 125(36), 7852-7866. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05556

  • Anstöter, C.S., DelloStritto, M., Klein, M.L., & Matsika, S. (2021). Modeling the Ultrafast Electron Attachment Dynamics of Solvated Uracil. J Phys Chem A, 125(32), 6995-7003. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05288

  • Matsika, S. (2021). Electronic Structure Methods for the Description of Nonadiabatic Effects and Conical Intersections. Chem Rev, 121(15), 9407-9449. United States. 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00074

  • Chakraborty, P., Liu, Y., McClung, S., Weinacht, T., & Matsika, S. (2021). Time Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy as a Test of Electronic Structure and Nonadiabatic Dynamics. J Phys Chem Lett, 12(21), 5099-5104. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00926

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

  • Allum, F., Calegari, F., Cavaletto, S.M., 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.S., Carrascosa, A.M., Natan, A., Neumark, D., Odate, A., Oyarzún, A., Palacios, A., Pfeifer, T., Röder, A., Rost, J.M., Rouzée, A., Stolow, A., Titov, E., Weber, P.M., & Wolf, T. (2021). Ultrafast X-ray science: general discussion. Faraday Discuss, 228, 597-621. England. 10.1039/d1fd90026a

  • Ashfold, M., Chergui, M., Fischer, I., Ge, L., Grell, G., Ivanov, M., Kirrander, A., Kornilov, O., Krishnan, S.R., Küpper, J., Kuttner, C., Makhija, V., Martín, F., Matsika, S., Minns, R.S., Natan, A., Neumark, D.M., Palacios, A., Pratt, S., Röder, A., Rost, J.M., Ruberti, M., Stolow, A., Titov, E., & Young, L. (2021). Time-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy: general discussion. Faraday Discuss, 228, 329-348. England. 10.1039/d1fd90024b

  • Abou-Hatab, S., Carnevale, V., & Matsika, S. (2021). Modeling solvation effects on absorption and fluorescence spectra of indole in aqueous solution. J Chem Phys, 154(6), 064104. United States. 10.1063/5.0038342

  • Zuluaga, C., Spata, V.A., & Matsika, S. (2021). Benchmarking Quantum Mechanical Methods for the Description of Charge-Transfer States in π-Stacked Nucleobases. J Chem Theory Comput, 17(1), 376-387. United States. 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00973

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

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

  • Thodika, M., Mackouse, N., & Matsika, S. (2020). Description of Two-Particle One-Hole Electronic Resonances Using Orbital Stabilization Methods. J Phys Chem A, 124(43), 9011-9020. United States. 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. J Chem Phys, 153(7), 074301. United States. 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. J Chem Phys, 152(17), 174302. United States. 10.1063/5.0005558

  • Lischka, H., Shepard, R., Müller, T., Szalay, P.G., Pitzer, R.M., Aquino, A.J., Nascimento, M.M.A.d., Barbatti, M., Belcher, L.T., Blaudeau, J., Borges, I., Brozell, S.R., Carter, E.A., Das, A., Gidofalvi, G., González, L., Hase, W.L., Kedziora, G., Kertesz, M., Kossoski, F., Machado, F.B., Matsika, S., Monte, S.A.d., Nachtigallová, D., Nieman, R., Oppel, M., Parish, C.A., Plasser, F., Spada, R.F., Stahlberg, E.A., Ventura, E., Yarkony, D.R., & Zhang, Z. (2020). The generality of the GUGA MRCI approach in COLUMBUS for treating complex quantum chemistry. J Chem Phys, 152(13), 134110. United States. 10.1063/1.5144267