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Elulookirjeldus (CV)
1.Eesnimi Arvi
2.Perekonnanimi Freiberg
3.Töökoht Tartu Ülikool
4.Ametikoht Professor
5.Sünniaeg 28.06.1948 (päev.kuu.aasta)
6.Haridus Tallinna Polütehniline Instituut, 1971, cum laude
7.Teenistuskäik 1971-1974 Insener
1974-1979 Nooremteadur
1979-1983 Vanemteadur
1983-1989 Teadusala asedirektor
1989-1994 Direktor
1988- Laborijuhataja; Kõik Füüsika Instituudis (kuni 1995. a. ENSV TA FI, alates 1997. a. TÜ FI)
1996-2002 Külalisteadur Arizona Riiklikus Ülikoolis
2003- TÜ professor, õppetooli hoidja
8.Teaduskraad Füüsika-matemaatika teaduste kandidaat
Füüsika-matemaatika teaduste doktor
9.Teaduskraadi välja
andnud asutus, aasta
Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Füüsika Instituut, 1976
Läti Teaduste Akadeemia Füüsika Instituut, 1986
10.Tunnustused Vanemteaduri kutse (1980)
US DOE Special Fond Award (1993)
International Science Foundation Main Award Grant (1994) Uurijastipendiume: NSVL TA (1984), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (1991), the Government of India (1996)
New Yorki TA liige (1996)
11.Teadusorganisatsiooniline
ja –administratiivne
tegevus
Eesti TA Füüsika Instituudi direktor/teadusdirektor 1983-1994
Tartu Teaduspargi nõukogu esimees 1994-96
Ameerika Füüsikaühingu Eesti Nõuandva Kogu esimees 1992-93
Rahvusvahelise Fotosünteesikomitee Ida- Ja Kesk-Euroopat esindav liige 1992-95
Euroopa esindaja Rahvusvahelises Fotosünteesi Uurimise Ühingus 1995-98
Mitmete rahvusvaheliste teaduskonverentside, sh. IX (Nagoya 1992), X (Montpellier 1995) ja XI (Budapest 1998) Rahvusvahelise Fotosünteesi Kongressi, org/programmkomitee liige
IV Põhja- ja Baltimaade Fotokeemiaalase Konverentsi (Tartu 1993) orgkomitee esimees
X Rahvusvahelise Sümpoosioni “Ülikiired Spektroskoopianähtused” (Tartu 1997) orgkomitee kaasesimees
Eesti Füüsikaühingu ja Rahvusvahelises Fotosünteesi Uurimise Ühingu asutajaliige
Eesti TA FI (alates ~1985), TÜ FO ja TÜMRI doktoritööde kaitsmisnõukogude alkaline liige
Ekspert/ekspertkomisjoni liige (ISF (1993-95); ETF (1997-00); USA Põllumajandusministeeriumi juures asuv NRI CGP (1998-00); ESF (2001); Euroopa suurte laserseadmete klaster (alates 2003))
Regulaarsed arvustusi rahvusvahelistele erialaajakirjadele nt Biophys. J., J. Phys. Chem., BBA, Chem. Phys. Lett., jt. ning granti/erialase töö hindamise komisjonidele erinevates riikides
Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli vilistlaskogu esimees (1993-94)
Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Kuratooriumi esimees (1997-2000)
ETF täppisteaduste komisjoni esimees (alates 2003)
12.Juhendamisel kaitstud
väitekirjad

Tõnu Pullerits, PhD, 1991, juh. Arvi Freiberg. Primary energy transfer in photosynthesis. Model calculations. TÜ

Peeter Kukk, cand, 1990, juh. Arvi Freiberg. Mittehomogeenselt laienenud siiretega molekulaarlisandite resonantne CARS-spektroskoopia. FI

Sergei Savikhin, PhD, 1990, juh. Arvi Freiberg. F-tsentrite ja lokaliseeritud eksitonide ülikiire dünaamika pikosekundspektroskoopia andmetel. FI

Kõu Timpmann, cand, 1985, juh. Arvi Freiberg. Relaksatsiooni uurimine teatud mitmeaatomilistes lisandimolekulides ja molekulaarkompleksides pikosekundilise spektrokronograafia meetodiga. FI

13.Teadustöö põhisuunad Elektron-foonon vastastikmõju lisanditega kristallides ja selle avaldused puhtelektroonse riba kaudu
Pikosekundiline spektrokronograafia
Molekulaarsete tihksüsteemide ülikiire spektroskoopia
Lokaalsete ergastuste ülikiire dünaamika kristallides
Energiasiirde kiirus bakteriaalses fotosünteetilises ühikus ja selle sõltuvus reaktsioonitsentri seisundist
Bakteriaalse fotosünteetilise ühiku spektraalse heterogeensuse mõju energiasiirde kineetikale
Fotosünteetilise energiasiirde struktuursed aspektid
Fotosünteetilised valgud kõrge rõhu all
eaktsioonitsentri energiahaarde efektiivsus
Fotosünteetiliste eksitonide iseärasused
14.Jooksvad grandid SF032147s02: Biofüüsikalised elementaarprotsessid ja nende dünaamika.
ETF 5543: Autolokaliseeritud eksitonid ja eksimerid fotosünteesis. Füüsikalised mehhanismid ja praktilised rakendused.
Eesti-Prantsuse ühisprogramm: Fotosünteetiliste komplekside molekulaarmodelleerimine kõrgete rõhkude all.
15.Teaduspublikatsioonid

1. G.Trinkunas, A.Freiberg, “A disordered polaron model for polarized fluorescence excitation spectra of LH1 and LH2 bacteriochlorophyll antenna aggregates,” J. Luminescence??? 2005, accepted.

2. A.Freiberg, “Biofüüsika-varjust valguse kätte,” Teadusmõte Eestis. Täppisteadused TA,??? 2005, accepted.

3. H.Pettai, V.Oja, A.Freiberg, A.Laisk, “Photosynthetic activity of far-red light in green plants,” Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1708, pp. 311-321, 2005.

4. H.Pettai, V.Oja, A.Freiberg, A.Laisk, “The long-wavelength limit of plant photosynthesis,” FEBS Letters 579, pp. 4017-4019, 2005.

5. K.Timpmann, G.Trinkunas, P.Qian, C.N.Hunter, A.Freiberg, “Excitons in core LH1 antenna complexes of photosynthetic bacteria: Evidence for strong exciton coupling and off-diagonal disorder,” Chem. Phys. Letters 414, pp. 359-363, 2005.

6. M.Rätsep, C.N.Hunter, J.D.Olsen, A.Freiberg, “Band structure and local dynamics of excitons in bacterial light-harvesting complexes revealed by spectrally selective spectroscopy,” Photosynth. Res. 86, pp. 37-48, 2005.

7. T.Tamm, J.Linnanto, A.Ellervee, A.Freiberg, “Modeling of pressure effects on absorption spectra of solvated chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll molecules,” In: Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences Brill Academic Publishers, vol 3A, pp. 550-553, 2005.

8. G. Trinkunas, A. Freiberg, “Abrupt exciton self-trapping in finite and disordered one-dimensional aggregates,” J. Luminescence 112, pp. 420-423, 2005.

10. K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, J.D. Olsen, C.N. Hunter, A. Freiberg, “Bandwidth of excitons in LH2 bacterial antenna chromoproteins,” Chem.Phys. Lett. 398, pp. 384-388, 2004.

11. A.Ellervee, J. Linnanto, A. Freiberg, “Spectroscopic and quantum chemical study of pressure effects on solvated chlorophyll,” Chem.Phys. Lett. 394, pp. 80-84, 2004.

12. K. Timpmann, M. Rätsep, C.N. Hunter, A. Freiberg,, “Emitting exciton polaron states in core LH1 and peripheral LH2 bacterial light-harvesting complexes,” J. Phys. Chem. B 108, pp. 10581-10588, 2004.

13. A.Gall, A. Ellervee, B. Robert, A. Freiberg, “The effect of internal voids in membrane proteins: high pressure study of two membrane proteins from Rhodobacter sphaeroides,” FEBS Letters 560, pp. 221-225, 2004.

14. A.Freiberg, M. Rätsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, “Dual fluorescence of single LH2 antenna nanorings,” J. Luminescence 108, pp. 107-110, 2004.

9. A.Freiberg, “What is the bandwidth of excitons in photosynthetic antenna nanoaggregates,” Biannual Report 2002/2003 TÜFI ISSN 1406-7927, pp. 51-53, 2004.

15. K.Timpmann, A. Ellervee, A. Kuznetsov, A. Laisaar, G. Trinkunas, A. Freiberg, “Self-trapped excitons in LH2 bacteriochlorophyll-protein complexes under high pressure,” J. Luminescence 102-103, pp. 220-225, 2003.

16. A.Freiberg, M. Rätsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, “Self-trapped excitons in circular bacteriochlorophyll antenna complexes,” J. Luminescence 102-103, pp. 363-368, 2003.

17. A.Freiberg, A. Ellervee, A. Lõhmus, R. Lõhmus, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, “Essential differences between the core and peripheral antenna excitons in photosynthetic purple bacteria revealed by high-pressure spectroscopy, In: “High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology”, Springer Verlag, pp. 25-28, 2003.

18. J.A. Ihalainen, M. Rätsep, P.E. Jensen, H.V. Scheller, R. Groce, R. Bassi, J.E.I. Korppi-Tommola, A. Freiberg, “Red spectral forms of chlorophylls in green plant PSI-A site-selective and high-pressure spectroscopy study,” J. Phys. Chem. B 107, pp. 9086-9093, 2003.

19. A.Gall, A. Ellervee, J.N. Sturgis, N.J. Fraser, R.J. Cogdell, A. Freiberg, B. Robert, “Membrane protein stability: High pressure effects on the structure and chromophore-binding properties of the light-harvesting complex LH2,” Biochemistry 42, pp. 13019-13026, 2003.

20. A.Freiberg, M. Rätsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, W.N. Woodbury, “Self-trapped excitons in LH2 antenna complexes between 5 K and ambient temperature,” J. Phys. Chem. B 107, pp. 11510-11519, 2003.

21. M. Rätsep, A. Freiberg, “Resonant emission from the B870 exciton state and electron-phonon coupling in the LH2 antenna chromoprotein,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 377, pp. 371-376, 2003.

22. A.Ellervee, A. Freiberg, “Pressure solvation of photosynthetic pigments,” Diffusion and Defect Forum 208-209, pp. 129-135, 2002.

23. A.Freiberg, “Exciton self-trapping in bacterial antennas promotes light harvesting efficiency,” Biannual Report 2000/2001 TÜFI, pp. 29-32, 2002.

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)
1.First Name Arvi
2.Surname Freiberg
3.Institution University of Tartu
4.Position Professor
5.Date of birth 28.06.1948 (day.month.year)
6.Education Tallinn Polytechnic Institute (Tallinn Technical University), 1971, cum laude
7.Research and
professional experience
1971-1974: Engineer
1974-1979: Junior research fellow
1979-1983: Senior research fellow
1983-1989: Research director
1989-1994: Director
1988-: Head of the Laboratory, all in the Institute of Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences/(since 1997) University of Tartu
1996-2002: Visiting research associate, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
2003-: Professor and Department Head, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu
8.Academic degree Cand. Sc. (equivalent of Ph.D.) degree in solid state physics.
Thesis title: “Peculiarities of electron-phonon coupling and influence of defects on the spectra of molecular impurities in alkali halide crystals.”
Doctor of Sc. degree in solid state physics.
Thesis title: “Picosecond spectrochronography and relaxation processes in condensed molecular media.”
9.Dates and sites of
earning the degrees
Institute of Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 1976
Institute of Physics, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1986
10.Honours/awards Senior Scientist title (1980)
US DOE Special Fond Award (1993)
International Science Foundation Main Award Grant (1994)
Fellowships: the USSR Academy of Sciences (1984), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (1991), the Government of India (1996).
Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1996)
11.Research-administrative
experience
Director/Science Director of the Institute of Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences (1983-1994)
Chair of the American Physics Society Advisory Board to Estonia (1992-93)
Chair/co-chair: IV Nordic-Baltic Photochemistry Meeting (Tartu, 1993), X Int. Symp. “Ultrafast Phenomena in Spectroscopy” (Tartu, 1997)
Member of the International Photosynthesis Committee (1992-95)
Representative of Europe and Founding Member of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (1995-98)
Expert for ISF (1993-95), ESF (1997-2000), US DA NRI Competitive Grants Program (1998-2000), Cluster of European Large Scale Laser Facilities (since 2003)
Chair of the Tallinn Technical University Alumnus Board (1993-94)
Chair of the Tartu Science Park Board (1994-96)
Chair of the Tallinn Technical University Board of Regents (1997-2000)
Chair of the Estonian Science Foundation Board of Experts (since 2003)
12.Supervised dissertations

Tõnu Pullerits, PhD, 1991, superv. Arvi Freiberg. Primary energy transfer in photosynthesis. Model calculations. TÜ

Peeter Kukk, cand, 1990, superv. Arvi Freiberg. Mittehomogeenselt laienenud siiretega molekulaarlisandite resonantne CARS-spektroskoopia. FI

Sergei Savikhin, PhD, 1990, superv. Arvi Freiberg. F-tsentrite ja lokaliseeritud eksitonide ülikiire dünaamika pikosekundspektroskoopia andmetel. FI

Kõu Timpmann, cand, 1985, superv. Arvi Freiberg. Relaksatsiooni uurimine teatud mitmeaatomilistes lisandimolekulides ja molekulaarkompleksides pikosekundilise spektrokronograafia meetodiga. FI

13.Current research program Ultrafast and selective spectroscopy of condensed matter, photobiophysics, including primary processes of photosynthesis, high-pressure biospectroscopy.
14.Current grant funding SF032147s02: Biophysical elementary processes and their dynamics.
ETF 5543: Self-trapped excitons and excimers in photosynthesis. Physical mechanisms and practical applications.
Estonian-France cooperation program: Molecular modeling of photosynthetic complexes under high pressure.
15.List of most important publications

1. G.Trinkunas, A.Freiberg, “A disordered polaron model for polarized fluorescence excitation spectra of LH1 and LH2 bacteriochlorophyll antenna aggregates,” J. Luminescence??? 2005, accepted.

2. A.Freiberg, “Biofüüsika-varjust valguse kätte,” Teadusmõte Eestis. Täppisteadused TA,??? 2005, accepted.

3. H.Pettai, V.Oja, A.Freiberg, A.Laisk, “Photosynthetic activity of far-red light in green plants,” Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1708, pp. 311-321, 2005.

4. H.Pettai, V.Oja, A.Freiberg, A.Laisk, “The long-wavelength limit of plant photosynthesis,” FEBS Letters 579, pp. 4017-4019, 2005.

5. K.Timpmann, G.Trinkunas, P.Qian, C.N.Hunter, A.Freiberg, “Excitons in core LH1 antenna complexes of photosynthetic bacteria: Evidence for strong exciton coupling and off-diagonal disorder,” Chem. Phys. Letters 414, pp. 359-363, 2005.

6. M.Rätsep, C.N.Hunter, J.D.Olsen, A.Freiberg, “Band structure and local dynamics of excitons in bacterial light-harvesting complexes revealed by spectrally selective spectroscopy,” Photosynth. Res. 86, pp. 37-48, 2005.

7. T.Tamm, J.Linnanto, A.Ellervee, A.Freiberg, “Modeling of pressure effects on absorption spectra of solvated chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll molecules,” In: Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences Brill Academic Publishers, vol 3A, pp. 550-553, 2005.

8. G. Trinkunas, A. Freiberg, “Abrupt exciton self-trapping in finite and disordered one-dimensional aggregates,” J. Luminescence 112, pp. 420-423, 2005.

10. K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, J.D. Olsen, C.N. Hunter, A. Freiberg, “Bandwidth of excitons in LH2 bacterial antenna chromoproteins,” Chem.Phys. Lett. 398, pp. 384-388, 2004.

11. A.Ellervee, J. Linnanto, A. Freiberg, “Spectroscopic and quantum chemical study of pressure effects on solvated chlorophyll,” Chem.Phys. Lett. 394, pp. 80-84, 2004.

12. K. Timpmann, M. Rätsep, C.N. Hunter, A. Freiberg,, “Emitting exciton polaron states in core LH1 and peripheral LH2 bacterial light-harvesting complexes,” J. Phys. Chem. B 108, pp. 10581-10588, 2004.

13. A.Gall, A. Ellervee, B. Robert, A. Freiberg, “The effect of internal voids in membrane proteins: high pressure study of two membrane proteins from Rhodobacter sphaeroides,” FEBS Letters 560, pp. 221-225, 2004.

14. A.Freiberg, M. Rätsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, “Dual fluorescence of single LH2 antenna nanorings,” J. Luminescence 108, pp. 107-110, 2004.

9. A.Freiberg, “What is the bandwidth of excitons in photosynthetic antenna nanoaggregates,” Biannual Report 2002/2003 TÜFI ISSN 1406-7927, pp. 51-53, 2004.

15. K.Timpmann, A. Ellervee, A. Kuznetsov, A. Laisaar, G. Trinkunas, A. Freiberg, “Self-trapped excitons in LH2 bacteriochlorophyll-protein complexes under high pressure,” J. Luminescence 102-103, pp. 220-225, 2003.

16. A.Freiberg, M. Rätsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, “Self-trapped excitons in circular bacteriochlorophyll antenna complexes,” J. Luminescence 102-103, pp. 363-368, 2003.

17. A.Freiberg, A. Ellervee, A. Lõhmus, R. Lõhmus, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, “Essential differences between the core and peripheral antenna excitons in photosynthetic purple bacteria revealed by high-pressure spectroscopy, In: “High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology”, Springer Verlag, pp. 25-28, 2003.

18. J.A. Ihalainen, M. Rätsep, P.E. Jensen, H.V. Scheller, R. Groce, R. Bassi, J.E.I. Korppi-Tommola, A. Freiberg, “Red spectral forms of chlorophylls in green plant PSI-A site-selective and high-pressure spectroscopy study,” J. Phys. Chem. B 107, pp. 9086-9093, 2003.

19. A.Gall, A. Ellervee, J.N. Sturgis, N.J. Fraser, R.J. Cogdell, A. Freiberg, B. Robert, “Membrane protein stability: High pressure effects on the structure and chromophore-binding properties of the light-harvesting complex LH2,” Biochemistry 42, pp. 13019-13026, 2003.

20. A.Freiberg, M. Rätsep, K. Timpmann, G. Trinkunas, W.N. Woodbury, “Self-trapped excitons in LH2 antenna complexes between 5 K and ambient temperature,” J. Phys. Chem. B 107, pp. 11510-11519, 2003.

21. M. Rätsep, A. Freiberg, “Resonant emission from the B870 exciton state and electron-phonon coupling in the LH2 antenna chromoprotein,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 377, pp. 371-376, 2003.

22. A.Ellervee, A. Freiberg, “Pressure solvation of photosynthetic pigments,” Diffusion and Defect Forum 208-209, pp. 129-135, 2002.

23. A.Freiberg, “Exciton self-trapping in bacterial antennas promotes light harvesting efficiency,” Biannual Report 2000/2001 TÜFI, pp. 29-32, 2002.

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