Carles Curutchet is Serra Húnter Full Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, and Physical Chemistry, of the University of Barcelona. He began his research career at this university (Ph. D. awarded in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. F. J. Luque and M. Orozco) followed by postdoctoral studies at the Universities of Pisa (2005 – 2007), Toronto (2008–2009) and Girona (2010-2011), working with several professors like B. Mennucci (Pisa), R. Cammi (Parma), G. Scholes (Toronto, now at Princeton) and M. Solà (Girona). He joined back the UB in 2012 as a Ramón y Cajal independent researcher, and was promoted to Serra Húnter Associate Professor in 2016 and Full Professor in 2020. The research group led by Dr. Curutchet tackles different topics related to photoinduced processes and the spectroscopy of biosystems, including the mechanisms of light harvesting and excitation transfer in photosynthesis, DNA photoprotection and the spectroscopy of fluorophore-tagged biomolecules and protein-ligand complexes. The group develops in-house multiscale embedding methods based on polarizable QM/MM (MMPol model) able to describe how complex biological environments modulate excitation transfer and excited-state properties of biochromophores.