The Gagliardi group welcomes two graduate students: Shreya Verma and Ricardo Almada Monter.
Category Archives: People and Events
Gagliardi group welcomes a new post doc and three graduate students!
The Gagliardi group is expanding! We are elated to welcome Soumi Haldar as a post doc within our group and our newest graduate students: Valay Agarawal, Matthew Hennefarth, and Zihan Pengmei.
Noah Dohrmann has been selected as a 2021-2022 Quad Undergraduate Research Scholar.
Undergraduate, Noah Dohrmann, has been selected as a 2021-2022 Quad Undergraduate Research Scholar. Bravo, Noah. Read the story on the Department of Chemistry web site!
Our First In-Person Group Dinner
The Gagliardi group is thrilled to gather over a slice for our first group in-person dinner at the Univeristy of Chicago!
It was good to see both new and familiar faces, including some promising first-year graduate students whom we hope will join our group.

Daniel King Receives DOE Research Award
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 new post docs!
Gagliardi group welcomes Arup Sarkar, Dario Campisi, and Ruhee Dcunha as post docs! Welcome to the Windy City!
WooSeok Jeong begins a new AI research fellow position!
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!
Melanie Burns Begins a New Journey at the University of Minnesota
Melanie Burns, formerly the Gagliardi Group’s administrator, begins a new journey as the Senior Administrative Director of the University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences.
Bravo, Melanie!
WooSeok Jeong begins AI research fellow position in Korea
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 Web Series
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.