Current       Associate Professor (Biophysics & Chemical Physics) 

       Position      Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

                             Department Chairperson

                         

      Other            Visiting Professor (Biophysics & Chemical Physics)

      Positions    Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham NC, USA

      

     Research      Modeling of charge transfer reactions in molecules with emphasis on biomolecular systems

     Interests       Molecular electronics

                             Theory of reaction rates for molecules in a condensed phase environment

                             Chemical and biological tunneling phenomena

                             Structure-function and dynamics-function relationships for proteins

 

    Education        Ph.D. Theoretical Biophysics                                             1991 

                               University of California  Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA

                               B.G.S. Physics & Mathematics                                         1986

                                University of Miami, Miami FLA, USA

   Professional      Department of Physics                                                            

   Experience        University of Cyprus, CYPRUS

                                Associate Professor                                                                              Oct. 06 - present   

 

                               Department of Physics

                               University of Cyprus, CYPRUS

                               Assistant Professor                                                                                  Feb. 00 - Oct. 06

 

                               Department of Natural Sciences                                                  

                                University of Cyprus, CYPRUS

                                Assistant Professor                                                                                 Jan. 97 - Feb. 00

 

                                Department of Chemistry                                                                        Jan. 95 - Jan. 97

                                University of Piitsburgh,   Pittsburgh, PA, USA

                                Research Assistant Professor (96-97)

                                Research Associate (95-96)

                                Biophysics and Chemical Physics

 

                               Department of Chemistry                                                                        Jan. 94 - Jan. 95

                               University of Rochester, NY, USA

                               Postdoctoral Fellow

                               Chemical Physics

 

                               Department of Physics                                                                            Sept. 91 - Dec. 93

                               University of California San Diego, CA, USA

                               Postgraduate Research Physicist

                               Biophysics and Chemical Physics

 

 

Conference            ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF CHIRAL STRUCTURES AND THEIR  

Organization          ASSEMBLIES

                                  Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, CO USA, June 28 -  July 2, 2010

                                  Organizing Committee:

                                   R. Naaman  (Weizmann Inst.), D. N. Beratan (Duke Univ.), S. S. Skourtis (Univ.

                                   of Cyprus) & D. Waldeck (Univ. of  Pittsburgh)

 

                                  2^nd SESAME WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (SMB)  

                                  (Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle

                                  East) Nicosia Cyprus, Dec 6 - 7, 2000

                                  Organizing Committee:

                                  G. Archontis & S. S. Skourtis (Univ. of Cyprus)

                                   A. Perrakis (EMBL)

                                   P. Kuhn (SSRL/Stanford Univ.)

                                   E. Alp (Cochair, SESAME Sci. Comm. & APS/Argonne)

                                    H. Winick (Cochair, SESAME Sci. Comm & SSRL/Stanford Univ.)

 

   Manuscript          Journals: 

   Refereeing           Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society,

                                   Journal of Chemical Physics,  Journal of Physical Chemistry, Nanotechnology,  Proc.

                                   Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

 

Journal                    Guest co-editor (with Prof. D. N. Beratan)

Editing                      Molecular Simulation Vol 32, Number 9, August 2006

                                   Special issue: Electron transfer

 

Publications        Total number of citations: 712 (ISI)

 

                                Vered Ben Moshe, Abraham Nitzan, Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan

                                Steady state theory of current transfer

                                arXiv: 0910.0189v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall]

 

                                David N. Beratan, Spiros S.  Skourtis, Ilya A.  Balabin, Alexander Balaeff,                  

                                 Shahar Keinan, Ravindra Venkatramani and Dequan Xiao

                                 Steering electrons on moving pathways
                                 Accounts of Chemical Research   42, 1669-1678  (2009)

                                 Spiros S. Skourtis, David N. Beratan, Ron Naaman, Abraham Nitzan, and David H.

                                 Waldeck

                                 Chiral control of electron transmission through molecules

                                 Phys. Rev. Lett.  101, 283103 (2008)

 

                                Ilya A. Balabin, David N. Beratan, and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                The persistence of structure over fluctuations in biological electron transfer reactions 

                                Phys. Rev. Lett.  101, 158102 (2008)

 

                                Ilya Balabin, Spiros S. Skourtis, and David N. Beratan

                                Chemical roles of water in electron transfer (Advanced Review)

                                Wiley Encyclopaedia of Chemical Biology  Wiley Blackwell (2009)

 

                                Phanourios. Tamamis, Spiros S. Skourtis, Dimitrios Morikis, John D. Lambris,

                                and Georgios Archontis.

                                Conformational analysis of  compstatin analogues with molecular dynamics                                               

                                simulations in explicit water       

                                J. Molecular Graphics and Modelling  26, 571-580 (2007).

 

                                Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan.

                                Photosynthesis from the Protein’s Perspective.

                                Science.  316, 703-704 (2007)

 

                               Tatiana Prytkova, David N. Beratan, and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                Photo-selected electron  transfer pathways in DNA  photolyase         

                                Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 802-807 (2007)

 

                                Antonios Teklos and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                Comparative study of perturbative methods for computing electron tunneling                                              

                                matrix  elements with a nonorthogonal basis set  

                                J. Chem. Phys. 125, 244103 1-9 (2006)

 

                                Spiros S. Skourtis, Jianpin Lin, and David N. Beratan 

                                The effects of bridge motion on  electron transfer reactions mediated by tunneling

                                Modern methods for Theoretical Physical Chemistry of Biopolymers, E. B. Starikov,

                                S. Tanaka, and J. P. Lewis, editors, Elsevier, pp. 357-379 (2006)                  

 

                                Antonios Teklos and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                Electron transfer through time-dependent bridges: differences between 

                                Franck-Condon and Born-Oppenheimer breakdown

                                Chemical Physics 319, 52-68 (2005)

                                Special Issue: Molecular Charge Transfer in Condensed Media - From Physics and

                                Chemistry to Biology and Nano-engineering 

 

                                Spiros S. Skourtis, Ilya Balabin, Tsutomu Kawatsu and David N. Beratan

                                Protein dynamics and electron transfer: electronic decoherence and non- Condon

                                effects.

                                Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 102, 3552-3557 (2005)  

 

                               Spiros S. Skourtis, David H. Waldeck and David N. Beratan

                               Inelastic electron tunneling erases coupling pathway interferences.

                               Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, 15511-15518 (2004)

 

                               Spiros S. Skourtis 

                               Electron transfer through fluctuating bridges: Tunneling by virtual

                               transitions  that  break the Born-Oppenheimer approximation

                               Chemical Physics Letters  372, 224-231 (2003)

 

                               Spiros Skourtis and Abraham Nitzan                             

                               Effects of initial state preparation on the distance dependence of electron

                               transfer through molecular bridges and wires

                               Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 6271-6276 (2003)

 

                                Spiros S. Skourtis, Georgios Archontis and Qian Xie

                               Electron transfer through fluctuating bridges: On the validity of the superexchange

                               mechanism and time-dependent tunneling matrix elements

                               Journal of Chemical Physics  115, 9444-9462 (2001)  

 

                               S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan 

                               Single- and multi-electron transfer processes  

                               In Electron Transfer in Chemistry (5 vol. monograph), Vol. 1: Principles, 

                               Theories, Methods and Techniques, V. Balzani, P. Piotrowiak and M.A.J.

                                Rodgers, editors, Wiley-VCH Press, Weinheim, pp. 109-125 (2001)

 

                                Qian Xie, Georgios Archontis and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                Protein electron transfer: A numerical study of tunneling through fluctuating

                                bridges

                                Chemical Physics Letters 312, 237-246 (1999)  

 

                               Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan

                                Theories of structure-function relationships for bridge-mediated electron trans­fer reactions

                                 Advances in Chemical Physics, 106, 377-452 (1999) 

 

                                David N. Beratan and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                Protein-mediated electron-transfer: pathways, orbital interactions, and contact  

                                 maps

                                 In Biological Electron-Transfer Chains: Genetics, Composition and Mode of

                                 operation,

                                 G. W. Canters and E. Vijgenboom, editors, Kluwer Academic Pub­lisher, Dordrecht,

                                 The Netherlands, pp. 9-27 (1998)

 

                                 David N. Beratan and Spiros S. Skourtis

                                 Electron transfer mechanisms

                                 Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2, 235-243 (1998) 

 

                                Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan

                                High and low resolution theories of protein electron transfer

                                 Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2, 378-386 (1997)  

 

                                Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan

                                Electron transfer contact maps

                                Journal of Physical Chemistry 101, 1215-1234 (1997)  

 

                                José N. Onuchic, Steven M. Risser, Spiros S. Skourtis, David N. Beratan.

                                The Design of starburst dendrimer electron transfer systems

                                 In Molecular Electronics, M. Ratner and J. Jortner, editors, Iupac Chemistry for

                                 the 21st Century series, Blackwell Science, Oxford UK,  pp. 369-379 (1997)

 

                                  Satyam Priyadarshy, Spiros S. Skourtis, Steven M. Risser, David N. Beratan

                                  Bridge-mediated electronic interactions: Differences between Hamiltonian and

                                  Green function partitioning in a non-orthogonal basis

                                  Journal of Chemical Physics 104, 9473-9481 (1996)  

 

                                   Spiros S. Skourtis, José N. Onuchic and David N. Beratan

                                   A method to analyze multi-pathway effects in protein mediated donor-acceptor

                                  coupling interactions

                                   Inorganica Chimica Acta 234, 167-175 (1996)  

 

                                   Spiros S. Skourtis and Shaul Mukamel

                                    Superexchange versus sequential long range electron transfer; density matrix

                                   pathways in Liouville space

                                   Chemical Physics 197, 367-387 (1995)  

 

                                    W.B. Curry, M.D. Grabe, J.V. Kurnikov, S.S. Skourtis, D.N. Beratan, J.J. Re­gan,

                                   A.J.A. Aquino, P. Beroza, J.N. Onuchic

                                   Pathways, pathway tubes, pathway docking and propagators in electron trans­fer

                                   proteins

                                   Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes 27, 285-293 (1995) 

 

                                    Spiros S. Skourtis, Jeffrey J. Regan and José N. Onuchic

                                    Electron transfer in proteins: a novel approach for the description of donor-

                                   acceptor coupling

                                    Journal of Physical Chemistry 98, 3379-3388 (1994)  

 

                                     Spiros S. Skourtis, David N. Beratan and José N. Onuchic

                                     The two-state reduction for electron and hole transfer in bridge-mediated elec­tron

                                     transfer reactions

                                     Chemical Physics 176, 501-520 (1993)  

 

                                      Spiros S. Skourtis and José N. Onuchic

                                       Effective two-state systems in bridge-mediated electron transfer: A Green’s

                                       function analysis

                                       Chemical Physics Letters 209, 171-177 (1993)  

 

                                        Spiros S. Skourtis, Antonio J. R. da Silva, William Bialek, and José N. Onuchic

                                        A new look at the primary charge separation in bacterial photosynthesis

                                       Journal of Physical Chemistry 96, 8034-8041 (1992)  

 

                                     Conference Proceedings

 

                                     Spiros S. Skourtis, Tatiana Prytkova and David N. Beratan

                                      Flavin charge transfer transitions assist DNA  photolyase electron transfer.

                                      American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings 963 (Volume 2B),

                                      pp 674-677 (2007).

                                      COMPUTATION IN MODERN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:

                                       Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods in 

                                       Science and Engineering 2007 (ICCMSE 2007): VOLUME 2, PART B     

 

                                       Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan

                                        A molecular double slit paradigm

                                        American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings 963 (Volume 2B),

                                         pp 809-812 (2007).

                                         COMPUTATION IN MODERN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:

                                         Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods in 

                                        Science and Engineering 2007 (ICCMSE 2007)  

 

                                        Spiros S. Skourtis

                                        The effects of biomolecular dynamics on biological electron transport

                                         Proceedings of the XXI Hellenic Conference of Solid State Physics and Materials Science  

                                          Nicosia, Cyprus, August 28-31 2005  (2007),  pp. 78-80. 

 

                                         Editorials

                            

                                         Spiros S. Skourtis and David N. Beratan

                                         Guest Editorial: Electron Transfer

                                          Molecular Simulation 32, 675-676 (2006)

                                          Special issue: Electron  transfer