Junior group leader “Computational Carbon Chemistry” at HITS
Employment
Apr 2019 – present | Junior Group Leader “Computational Carbon Chemistry” (CCC) at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH) and Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University
Nov 2016 – Jan 2019 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellow, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), supervisor – Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf
Nov 2014 – Oct 2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), supervisor – Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf
Sept 2013 – Sept 2014 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University (Australia), supervisor – Prof. Michelle Coote
Education
2010-2013 | PhD (awarded July 18, 2014), Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University (Australia), supervisor – Prof. Michelle Coote
2008-2009 | Master of Science and tertiary teaching, Department of Chemistry, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (Ukraine) Diploma with Honours (summa cum laude), supervisor – Prof. Sergiy Okovytyy
2004-2008 | Bachelor of Science, Department of Chemistry, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (Ukraine) Diploma with Honours (summa cum laude), supervisor – Prof. Sergiy Okovytyy
Research Funding
2023-2027 | HITS Lab “Organic Materials by Geometrical Design” from the Klaus Tschira Foundation
2022-2027 | ERC-StG-2021 “PATTERNCHEM: Shape and Topology as Descriptors of Chemical and Physical Properties in Functional Organic Materials” from the European Research Council
2021-2023 | SIMPLAIX Strategic Research Initiative for Data-enhanced Multiscale Simulation from the Klaus Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2021-2024 | SFB1249 “N-Heteropolycycles as Functional Materials” from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2018 | Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council (Relinquished)
2018 | UNSW Scientia Fellowship from the University of New South Wales (Relinquished)
2016 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship from the European Commission
Awards
2021 | Fellow of the Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg, Max Planck Society
2018 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow of the Week, October 12
2018 | Best Oral Presentation Award sponsored by Metrohm, computational chemistry section, Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, September 7, 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
2017 | European Commission nominated attendee of the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2015 | IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists for one of the five most outstanding PhD theses in the general area of the chemical sciences worldwide
2015 | J. G. Crawford Prize for the PhD thesis, Australian National University
2014 | Cornforth Medal for “the most outstanding PhD thesis in a branch of chemistry, chemical science or chemical technology”, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Australia
2014 | Director’s Prize for the best PhD thesis, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Australia
2024
- Gryn’ova G, Bereau T, Müller C, Friederich P, Wade RC, Nunes-Alves A, Soares TA, Merz K (2024). EDITORIAL: Chemical Compound Space Exploration by Multiscale High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning, J. Chem. Inf. Model. 64(15):5737-5738 1855
- Feeney T, Petry J, Torche A, Hauschild D, Hacene B, Wansorra C, Diercks A, Ernst M, Weinhardt L, Heske C, Gryn’ova G, Paetzold UW, Fassl P (2024). Understanding and exploiting interfacial interactions between phosphonic acid functional groups and co-evaporated perovskites, Matter,S2590238524000675 1816
- Back S, Aspuru-Guzik A, Ceriotti M, Gryn’ova G, Grzybowski B, Gu GH, Hein J, Hippalgaonkar K, Hormázabal R, Jung Y, Kim S, Kim WY, Moosavi SM, Noh J, Park C, Schrier J, Schwaller P, Tsuda K, Vegge T, Lilienfeld OAv, Walsh A (2024). Accelerated chemical science with AI, Digital Discovery 3(1):23-33 1772
- Riedmiller K, Reiser P, Bobkova E, Maltsev K, Gryn’ova G, Friederich P, Gräter F (2024). Substituting density functional theory in reaction barrier calculations for hydrogen atom transfer in proteins, Chemical Science 1770
- Riedmiller K, Reiser P, Bobkova E, Maltsev K, Gryn’ova G, Friederich P, Gräter F (2024). Substituting density functional theory in reaction barrier calculations for hydrogen atom transfer in proteins, Chem. Sci.,10.1039.D3SC03922F 1781
2023
- Ernst M, Evans JD, Gryn’ova G (2023). Host–guest interactions in framework materials: Insight from modeling, Chemical Physics Reviews 4(4),041303 1729
- Gryn’ova G (2023). Crafting molecular architectures with guided diffusion, Nat Comput Sci 1717
- Ehlert C, Piras A, Gryn’ova G (2023). CO
2
on Graphene: Benchmarking Computational Approaches to Noncovalent Interactions, ACS Omega 8(39):35768-35778 1716
- Fedorov R, Gryn’ova G (2023). Unlocking the Potential: Predicting Redox Behavior of Organic Molecules, from Linear Fits to Neural Networks, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19(15):4796-4814 1685
- Llenga S, Gryn’ova G (2023). Matrix of orthogonalized atomic orbital coefficients representation for radicals and ions, The Journal of Chemical Physics 158(21),214116 1682
- Ernst M, Gryn’ova G (2023). Engineering Host–Guest Interactions in Organic Framework Materials for Drug Delivery, Helvetica Chimica Acta,e202300013 1675
- Rennekamp B, Karfusehr C, Kurth M, Ünal A, Riedmiller K, Gryn’ova G, Hudson DM, Gräter F (2023). Collagen breaks at weak sacrificial bonds taming its mechanoradicals, Nat Commun 14, 2075 (2023). 1540
- Riedmiller K, Reiser P, Bobkova E, Maltsev K, Gryn’ova G, Friederich P, Gräter F (2023). Predicting reaction barriers of hydrogen atom transfer in proteins, ChemRxiv 1621
- Ehlert C, Piras A, Schleicher J, Gryn’ova G (2023). Metal-Free Molecular Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Electron Affinity as an Activity Descriptor, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14(2):476-480 1568
- Ernst M, Poręba T, Gnägi L, Gryn’ova G (2023). Locating Guest Molecules inside Metal–Organic Framework Pores with a Multilevel Computational Approach, J. Phys. Chem. C 127(1):523-531 1567
2022
- Sigmund LM, Ehlert C, Gryn’ova G, Greb L (2022). Stereoinversion of tetrahedral
p
-block element hydrides, J. Chem. Phys. 156(19):194113 1551
- Ernst M, Gryn’ova G (2022). Strength and Nature of Host‐Guest Interactions in Metal‐Organic Frameworks from a Quantum‐Chemical Perspective, ChemPhysChem 23(8) 1476
- Keer LD, Steenberge PV, Reyniers M, Gryn’ova G, Aitken HM, Coote ML (2022). New mechanism for autoxidation of polyolefins: kinetic Monte Carlo modelling of the role of short-chain branches, molecular oxygen and unsaturated moieties, Polym. Chem.,10.1039.D1PY01659H 1477
2021
- Sigmund LM, Ehlert C, Enders M, Graf J, Gryn’ova G, Greb L (2021). Dioxygen Activation and Pyrrole α‐Cleavage with Calix[4]pyrrolato Aluminates: Enzyme Model by Structural Constraint, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60(28):15632-15640 1282
- Piras A, Gryn’ova G (2021). The Law of Attraction: Relating Computed Energetics of Physisorption with Performance of Graphene-Based Sensors for Nitroaromatic Contaminants, [Preprint] 1261
- Ehlert C, Piras A, Gryn’ova G (2021). Assessing in Silico Models and Methods for Non-Covalent Interactions between Graphene and Small Molecules, [Preprint] 1646
- Piras A, Ehlert C, Gryn’ova G (2021). Sensing and sensitivity: Computational chemistry of
graphene‐based
sensors, WIREs Comput Mol Sci 1229
2019
- Gryn’ova G, Corminboeuf C (2019). Conceptual Framework of Organic Electronics, chimia (aarau) 73(4):245-251 490
- Gryn’ova G, Corminboeuf C (2019). Topology-Driven Single-Molecule Conductance of Carbon Nanothreads, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10(4):825-830 491
- Marshall DL, Gryn’ova G, Poad BL, Bottle SE, Trevitt AJ, Coote ML, Blanksby SJ (2019). Experimental Evidence for Long-Range Stabilizing and Destabilizing Interactions between Charge and Radical Sites in Distonic Ions, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 435:195-203 492
2018
- Hong N, Petrović D, Lee R, Gryn’ova G, Purg M, Saunders J, Bauer P, Carr PD, Lin C, Mabbitt PD, Zhang W, Altamore T, Easton C, Coote ML, Kamerlin SCL, Jackson CJ (2018). The Evolution of Multiple Active Site Configurations in a Designed Enzyme, Nat Commun 9(1) 497
- Gryn’ova G, Lin K, Corminboeuf C (2018). Read between the Molecules: Computational Insights into Organic Semiconductors, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140(48):16370-16386 493
- Gryn’ova G, Corminboeuf C (2018). Noncovalent Molecular Electronics, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9(9):2298-2304 494
- Gryn’ova G, Corminboeuf C (2018). Steric “Attraction”: Not by Dispersion Alone, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 14:1482-1490 495
- Vaillant FL, Garreau M, Nicolai S, Gryn’ova G, Corminboeuf C, Waser J (2018). Fine-Tuned Organic Photoredox Catalysts for Fragmentation-Alkynylation Cascades of Cyclic Oxime Ethers, Chem. Sci. 9(27):5883-5889 496
2017
- Li Y, Gryn’ova G, Saenz F, Jeanbourquin X, Sivula K, Corminboeuf C, Waser J (2017). Heterotetracenes: Flexible Synthesis and in Silico Assessment of the Hole-Transport Properties, Chem. Eur. J. 23(33):8058-8065 500
- Gryn’ova G, Smith LM, Coote ML (2017). Computational Design of pH-Switchable Control Agents for Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19(34):22678-22683 498
- Gryn’ova G, Ollitrault PJ, Corminboeuf C (2017). Guidelines and Diagnostics for Charge Carrier Tuning in Thiophene-Based Wires, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19(34):23254-23259 499
- Li J, Gryn’ova G, Prlj A, Corminboeuf C (2017). Enhancing the Power Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells via Molecular Plasmon-Like Excitations, Chem. Commun. 53(16):2423-2426 501
- Gryn’ova G, Coote ML (2017). Directionality and the Role of Polarization in Electric Field Effects on Radical Stability, Aust. J. Chem. 70(4):367 502
- Gryn’ova G, Nicolaï A, Prlj A, Ollitrault P, Andrienko D, Corminboeuf C (2017). Charge Transport in Highly Ordered Organic Nanofibrils: Lessons from Modelling, J. Mater. Chem. C 5(2):350-361 503
2016
- Gryn’ova G, Corminboeuf C (2016). Implications of Charge Penetration for Heteroatom-Containing Organic Semiconductors, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7(24):5198-5204 504
- Pahnke K, Brandt J, Gryn’ova G, Lin CY, Altintas O, Schmidt FG, Lederer A, Coote ML, Barner-Kowollik C (2016). Entropy-Driven Selectivity for Chain Scission: Where Macromolecules Cleave, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55(4):1514-1518 506
- Lee R, Gryn’ova G, Ingold KU, Coote ML (2016). Why Are sec-Alkylperoxyl Bimolecular Self-Reactions Orders of Magnitude Faster than the Analogous Reactions of tert-Alkylperoxyls? The Unanticipated Role of CH Hydrogen Bond Donation, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18(34):23673-23679 505
2015
- Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Corminboeuf C (2015). Theory and Practice of Uncommon Molecular Electronic Configurations, WIREs Comput Mol Sci 5(6):440-459 507
- Stoutenburg EG, Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Priefer R (2015). Chemical Shift and Coupling Constant Analysis of Dibenzyloxy Disulfides, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 136:1924-1931 510
- Marshall DL, Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Barker PJ, Blanksby SJ (2015). Experimental Evidence for Competitive N-O and O-C Bond Homolysis in Gas-Phase Alkoxyamines, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 378:38-47 511
- Klinska M, Smith LM, Gryn’ova G, Banwell MG, Coote ML (2015). Experimental Demonstration of pH-Dependent Electrostatic Catalysis of Radical Reactions, Chem. Sci. 6(10):5623-5627 508
- Pahnke K, Brandt J, Gryn’ova G, Lindner P, Schweins R, Schmidt FG, Lederer A, Coote ML, Barner-Kowollik C (2015). Entropy-Driven Chain Effects on Ligation Chemistry, Chem. Sci. 6(2):1061-1074 509
2014
- Chen R, Gryn’ova G, Wu Y, Coote ML, Chung S (2014). Mechanisms and Energetics of Potassium Channel Block by Local Anesthetics and Antifungal Agents, Biochemistry 53(43):6786-6792 512
- Paine MR, Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Barker PJ, Blanksby SJ (2014). Desorption Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry of Stabilised Polyesters Reveals Activation of Hindered Amine Light Stabilisers, Polymer Degradation and Stability 99:223-232 513
- Gryn’ova G, Coote ML (2014). Radical orbital switching, Patent Application No. WO2014121327 A1 (left at PCT stage) 1127
2013
- Gryn’ova G, Coote ML (2013). Origin and Scope of Long-Range Stabilizing Interactions and Associated SOMO–HOMO Conversion in Distonic Radical Anions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135(41):15392-15403 514
- Gryn’ova G, Marshall DL, Blanksby SJ, Coote ML (2013). Switching Radical Stability by pH-Induced Orbital Conversion, Nature Chem 5(6):474-481 516
- Gryn’ova G, Lin CY, Coote ML (2013). Which Side-Reactions Compromise Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization?, Polym. Chem. 4(13):3744 515
- Gryn’ova G, Guliashvili T, Matyjaszewski K, Coote ML (2013). Computational Evaluation of the Sulfonyl Radical as a Universal Leaving Group for RAFT Polymerisation, Aust. J. Chem. 66(3):308 517
2012
- Filippov A, Chernikova E, Golubev V, Grynova G, Yeh C, L. M (2012). Use of Spin Trap Technique for Kinetic Investigation of Elementary Steps of RAFT-Polymerization, Nitroxides – Theory, Experiment and Applications,InTech 526
- Gryn’ova G, Ingold KU, Coote ML (2012). New Insights into the Mechanism of Amine/Nitroxide Cycling during the Hindered Amine Light Stabilizer Inhibited Oxidative Degradation of Polymers, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134(31):12979-12988 518
- Gryn’ova G, Barakat JM, Blinco JP, Bottle SE, Coote ML (2012). Computational Design of Cyclic Nitroxides as Efficient Redox Mediators for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Chem. Eur. J. 18(24):7582-7593 519
- Abreu CMR, Mendonça PV, Serra AC, Coelho JFJ, Popov AV, Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Guliashvili T (2012). Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride, Macromolecules 45(5):2200-2208 520
2011
- Golubev VB, Filippov AN, Chernikova EV, Coote ML, Lin CY, Gryn’ova G (2011). The Use of Spin Traps for the Kinetic Investigation of Elementary Events of Pseudoliving Radical Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain-Transfer Polymerization, Polym. Sci. Ser. C 53(1):14-26 522
- Kholod YA, Gryn’ova G, Gorb L, Hill FC, Leszczynski J (2011). Evaluation of the Dependence of Aqueous Solubility of Nitro Compounds on Temperature and Salinity: A COSMO-RS Simulation, Chemosphere 83(3):287-294 524
- Gryn’ova G, Hodgson JL, Coote ML (2011). Revising the Mechanism of Polymer Autooxidation, Org. Biomol. Chem. 9(2):480-490 521
- Marshall DL, Christian ML, Gryn’ova G, Coote ML, Barker PJ, Blanksby SJ (2011). Oxidation of 4-Substituted TEMPO Derivatives Reveals Modifications at the 1- and 4-Positions, Org. Biomol. Chem. 9(13):4936 523
2010