Postdoc Dario Campisi will begin a new role as a Humboldt fellow at the University of Stuttgart. Congratulations Dario on also being named the Head of Astrochemistry in the Kästner group. Bravo!
Category Archives: People and Events
Laura delivers the Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecture at ACS Fall 2022
The Gagliardi group had a great time at ACS Fall 2022, sharing nine oral talks and four posters throughout the meeting. Laura delivered the Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecture on Tuesday, August 23rd entitled Quantum leaps: Chemistry and creativity in a changing world. Her keynote explored how theory, computation, and machine intelligence can work together to help create a more sustainable world and address environmental challenges such as water scarcity, global warming, and clean energy. See you at the next meeting!
Dr. Thais Scott successfully defended her doctoral thesis
Dr. Thais Scott successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title “Multi-Configuration Pair-Density Functional Theory Developments and Applications to Photochemically Relevant Excited States.” Thais has been selected as a Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) Software Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Bravo, Thais!
Laura reflects on the past six months of serving as JCTC Editor-in-Chief
Laura shares what is next for the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and reflects on serving as Editor-in-Chief in the journal’s recent editorial. The article highlights emerging topics that will receive JCTC’s support and the journal’s societal responsibilities beyond knowledge generation and technological innovation. Read more here.
Gagliardi group welcomes two summer student researchers!
The Gagliardi group is excited to welcome undergraduate Ariadna Fernandez (University of Illinois Chicago) and graduate student Francesca Fasulo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) from Naples, Italy. Ariadna joins us from the Open Quantum Initiative (OQI) Undergraduate Fellowship, a summer program focused on developing students’ “research literacy” skills and their exposure to the wide diversity of physics subfields (including experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches).
Five group members successfully complete their first year of graduate school
Grad students Valay Agarawal, Matthew Hennefarth, Ricardo Almada Monter, Zihan Pengmei, and Shreya Verma successfully complete their first year of graduate school and receive approval to prepare for their Ph.D. Candidacy Examination. Bravo, everyone!
Dr. Riddhish Umesh Pandharkar successfully defended his doctoral thesis
Dr. Riddhish Umesh Pandharkar successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title “Localized multireference methods for strongly correlated systems.” Riddhish has accepted a position at OpenEye Scientific as a Scientific Software Developer located in Santa Fe, NM. Congratulations, Riddhish!
Daniel King awarded the Otto H. and Valerie Windt Memorial Fellowship
Graduate student, Daniel King is one of two recipients of the Otto H. and Valerie Windt Memorial Fellowship. The award will provide a $400 honorarium and salary support during the 2022 – 2023 academic year. Way to go, Daniel!
Dario Campisi’s project proposal recognized with a Seal of Excellence by the European Commission
Postdoc Dario Campisi‘s project proposal, “A new theoretical method of general applicability to study the chemistry of our solar system”, was recognized with a Seal of Excellence by the European Commission submitted under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 — MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021. The project was recognized as a high-quality project proposal in a highly competitive evaluation process but could not receive funding due to budgetary constraints and was therefore recommended by the European Commission for funding by other sources.
Laura elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Laura has been elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, one of the world’s oldest existing learned societies. The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina was founded in 1652 as a classical scholarly society and now boasts 1,600 members from almost all branches of science. Notable members include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Lister, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein. Throughout its history, 186 members have won Nobel prizes. Read the article on Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s website.