Dr. Walter A. Rabanal León visits Gagliardi group!
The group welcomes visiting postdoctoral scholar, Walter A. Rabanal León of the Department of Chemistry at Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile, where he is a member of the Millennium Nucleus Molecular Engineering for Catalysis and Biosensors group.
Group welcomes three new members!
The group welcomes three new members: postdoc Davide Presti, who comes to Minnesota from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, University of Minnesota undergraduate researcher Michelle Anderson, and postdoc Carlo Gaggioli from Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Two members pass their preliminary examinations.
Second-year graduate students Prachi Sharma and Hung Pham passed their preliminary examinations. Congratulations to both!
Laura gave the MARVEL NCCR Distinguished Lecture at EPFL.
On December 20, Laura gave the MARVEL NCCR Distinguished Lecture at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The lecture was on “Homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis: two challenges for modern quantum chemistry.” You can listen to and watch the lecture here.
Debmalya Ray passed his preliminary exam!
On December 5, second-year graduate student Debmalya Ray passed his preliminary exam. Good job, Debmalya!
New postdoc joins the group.
Jingyun Ye joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. She is co-advised by Laura, Chris Cramer, and Don Truhlar. Welcome, Jingyun!
Laura receives the 2016 Isaiah Shavitt Lecture Award.
Laura received the 2016 Isaiah Shavitt Lecture Award from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Tel Aviv. In mid-December, she travelled to Technion to give lectures and lead a symposium. Read more on the Department of Chemistry’s web site.
Gagliardi group featured in an article about Metal-Organic Frameworks.
An article about Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), describing the work of some of the members of the Gagliardi and Cramer groups at Minnesota, along with other members of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), was featured in the News section of the Department of Chemistry’s web site. Read the article.
Gagliardi group awarded massively parallel processing hours.
Laura and Don Truhlar, along with some of the postdocs in the Gagliardi group, were awarded 229,000 massively parallel processing (MPP) hours for computing projects at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) for 2017, as part of the efforts of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), of which Laura is the Director. Read the story on the Department of Chemistry web site.
Dale Pahls accepts a postdoctoral researcher position.
Postdoc Dale Pahls has accepted a postdoctoral researcher position in the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. We wish you the best, Dale!
First-year graduate student Matt Simons has joined the Gagliardi Group.
He is co-advised by Aditya Bhan in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS). Welcome to Matt.
Laura was one of the members of a Nanoporous Materials Genome Center (NMGC) team that has created a game that will teach young people about nanotechnology, engage them in working on a real-world problem and spark their creativity to build structures that will help solve a troublesome real-world environmental issue.
Laura was named one of the 34 Fellows of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment for 2017 (IonE).
Sam Stoneburner, now a third-year graduate student, received the 2016 Robert and Jill DeMaster Fellowship, one of the Department of Chemistry’s Excellence Awards.
Sam was also invited by his undergraduate institution, Hillsdale College, to give an invited talk, “Catechol-Ligated Transition Metals: A Quantum Chemical Study on a Promising System for Gas Separation,” and to meet with current undergraduates to tell them about life in graduate school. Congratulations to Sam on both of these accomplishments!
Laura gave a talk at the Materials Research Society’s 5th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds (MOF2016)in Long Beach, California, on the work of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center.
The Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), a Department of Energy-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), held its annual All-Hands Meeting at The Saint Paul Hotel on August 15 and 16.
In addition, Prof. Ian Tonks of the University of Minnesota, a recently added principal investigator within the ICDC, gave a workshop on Reaction Mechanisms immediately following the All-Hands Meeting. Laura is the Director of the ICDC. Several members of the Gagliardi group, along with many postdocs and graduate students at the University, are members of the multi-institution ICDC.
Laura is now a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry through its “Leaders in the Field” program.
Fellows in this program are outstanding individuals in the chemical science community.
Konstantinos (Kostas) Vogiatzis, postdoc in the Gagliardi group, has accepted a faculty position as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Congratulations, Professor Vogiatzis!
Joshua Borycz successfully defended his thesis, “Computationally Driven Characterization of Magnetism, Adsorption, and Reactivity in Metal-Organic Frameworks.”
Congratulations, Dr. Borycz!
The Spring 2016 issue of the Frontiers in Energy Research newsletter features the work of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, of which Laura is the Director.
An article, titled “Five Cents About Nickel Catalysts,” was co-authored by Gagliardi group postdoc and ICDC scientific coordinator Varinia Bernales.