Funding Partners & Research Organizations
We appreciate the support of our work with our funding partners and collaborative research organizations.
Current Funding Partners




Active Grants
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC): Catalyst Design for Decarbonization Center (CD4DC)
2022-2026
Grant No. DE-SC0023383
National Science Foundation
NSF-DFG Confine: Diffusion of Water Confined in Patterned Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Nanopores
2022-2025
Grant No. CHE-2223442
U.S. Department of Energy
Exascale Multireference Wave Function Theory Method for Polymer Upcycling Catalysis
2022-2024
Grant No. DE-SC0023382
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Multi-Configuration Pair-Density Functional Theory for Magnetic Systems
2020-2024
Grant No. FA9550-16-1-0134
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC): Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (Director)
2014-2018; 2018-2023
Grant No. DE-SC0012702
DOE Heavy Element Chemistry
Quantum Chemical Treatment of Strongly Correlated Magnetic Systems based on Heavy Elements
2009-2012; 2012-2016; 2016-2019; 2019-2022
Grant No. DE-SC0002183
National Nuclear Security Administration
Actinide Center of Excellence (subaward via University of Notre Dame)
2017-2022
Grant No. DE-NA0003763
National Science Foundation
Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory for Complex Chemical Systems
2018-2021; 2021-2024
Grant No. CHE-1764186
U.S. Department of Energy
Nanoporous Materials Genome Center (NMGC)
2012-2017; 2017-2022
Grant No. DE-FG02-12ER16362
Grant No. DE-FG02-17ER16362
Previous Funding Partners
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC): Materials Science of Actinides (subaward via University of Notre Dame)
2014-2018
Grant No. DE-SC0001089
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Multi-Configurational Pair-Density Functional Theory for Charge Transfer Processes
2016-2018
Grant No. 15RT0884
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment via Xcel Energy’s Renewable Electricity for Minnesota’s Future block grant
Pyrite FeS2: A Low-Cost Earth-Abundant Photovoltaic Solution for Renewable Electricity in Minnesota
2016-2018
Grant No. CHE-1124244
National Science Foundation
Multi-Configuration Pair-Density Functional Theory
2015-2018
Grant No. CHE-1464536
National Science Foundation
New Multireference Models for Strongly Correlated Systems
2012-2015
Grant No. CHE-1212575
National Science Foundation
International Collaboration in Chemistry: Aqueous Host-Guest Chemistry with Self-Assembling Metal-templated Cages
2011-2015
Grant No. CHE-1124244
Research Organizations
Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry
Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center
Nanoporous Materials Genome Center