Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

Research profile
Although the chair in the Laboratory for Instructions in Swedish could historically be 
in any field of chemistry research, UH has recently decided that the research profile 
of the unit should continue to be in the field of theoretical and computational 

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chemistry, as has been the profile since 1984. The unit has been focusing on and 
pioneering in the fields of relativistic effects in chemistry and the chemistry of gold 
and gold nanoparticles. Related to the latter activity is also the unit’s interest in 
quantum dots. Other computational activities involve the study of photoabsorption 
processes in biomolecules and silicon clusters. The unit is also actively involved in a 
variety of method development projects, such as the calculation of magnetic (ring) 
currents in open- and closed-shell molecules, finite-element methods and strongly 
correlated systems, as well as novel methods for studying protein folding.