Damien LAAGE

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
Professeur attaché, ENS

ENS – Département de chimie
24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris

Email: damien.laage [at] ens.fr
Phone: +33 144322418
Office: E111c

Education

  • PhD theoretical chemistry, Sorbonne Univ. Paris, Advisor: J.T. Hynes (2001)
  • MSc physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (1997)

Professional experience

  • Directeur de recherche CNRS, UMR PASTEUR (2014-)
  • Professeur attaché, Ecole Normale Supérieure (2014-)
  • Chargé de recherche CNRS, UMR PASTEUR (2002-2014)
  • Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zürich (2001-2002)

Research interests

Theoretical chemistry; chemical reactivity in solution, at interfaces and in biochemical environments; water and hydrogen-bond dynamics; vibrational energy transfer in solution

Awards and distinctions

  • ERC Starting Grant (2012)
  • Young researcher award – French chemical society, physical chemistry division (2012)
  • CNRS bronze medal (2010)

Selected publications

  1. Laage, D.; Elsaesser, T.; Hynes, J.T. “Water dynamics in the hydration shells of biomolecules”, Chem. Rev. 2017, 117, 10694-10725. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00765
  2. Wilkins, D.; Manolopoulos, D.E.; Pipolo, S.; Laage, D.; Hynes J.T. “Nuclear quantum effects in water reorientation and hydrogen-bond dynamics”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2017, 8, 2602-2607. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00979
  3. Duboué-Dijon, E.; Fogarty, A.C.; Hynes, J.T.; Laage, D. “Dynamical disorder in the DNA hydration shell”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 7610-7620. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02715
  4. Stirnemann, G.; Wernersson, E.; Jungwirth, P.; Laage, D. “Mechanisms of acceleration and retardation of water dynamics by ions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 11824-11831. DOI: 10.1021/ja405201s
  5. Laage, D.; Hynes, J.T. “A molecular jump mechanism of water reorientation”, Science 2006, 311, 832-835. DOI: 10.1126/science.1122154