Graduate Student, Daniel King, has been selected as a recipient of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award.
Awardees were selected from a diverse pool of graduate applicants from institutions around the country. Congratulations Daniel!
Gagliardi group welcomes Arup Sarkar, Dario Campisi, and Ruhee Dcunha as post docs! Welcome to the Windy City!
Postdoc WooSeok Jeong has departed the group to begin an AI research fellow position with the Center for AI and Natural Sciences of Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
We wish you the very best, WooSeok!
Postdoc WooSeok Jeong has departed the group to begin an AI research fellow position with the Center for AI and Natural Sciences of Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
We wish you the very best, WooSeok!
Laura is featured on JACS in Conversation With…, a web series from the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
She shares how her professional career trajectory took her from Italy to the United States, why she compares chemists to cooks, and her thoughts on the importance of theoretical chemistry to experimental chemistry and the field overall. Watch the conversation here.
Nsa Druinaud joins the Gagliardi Group as its administrator.
Welcome, Nsa!
Laura has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Lectureship Prize, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today.
She won the prize for contributions to the development of multireference quantum chemical approaches to describe catalysis and excited state phenomena. She also receives £3000 and a medal. Read more about it from the Department of Chemistry here. Brava, Laura!
Group member Teffanie Goh has received the 2021 Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award in General Chemistry.
Congratulations, Teffanie!
Dr. Matt Simons successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title “C-H Activation via Direct Oxidative Routes over Molecular Metal-oxo Species Situated in Metal-Organic Frameworks.”
Matt has accepted a position at the Dow Chemical Company as a Senior Research Specialist in Packaging, Specialty Plastics and Hyrdocarbons R&D, Process and Catalysis, New Process Technology Development Department located in Freeport, TX.
Bess Vlaisavljevich has been selected as one of this year’s winners of the Overend Award for Graduate Research in Physical Chemistry.
Congrats, Bess!