Marco Schröter investigates the influence of the local environment on the exciton dynamics
within molecular aggregates which build e.g. the light-harvesting complexes of plants
bacteria or algae by means of the hierarchy equations of motion (HEOM) method. He addresses the
following questions in detail: How can coherent oscillations within a system of coupled
molecules be interpreted? What are the changes in the quantum dynamics of the system for
increasing coupling strength between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom? To what extent
does decoherence govern the energy transfer properties of molecular aggregates?.
