Stay up to date with the happenings of the Gagliardi group!
The Gagliardi Group website has been awarded silver by the MUSE Creative Awards. This recognition is a part of the MUSE Awards Program, which was created by the International Awards Associate (IAA) in 2015. IAA’s inception was based on a mission to honor, promote and encourage creativity by providing a new standard of excellence for evaluating media design production and distribution. Read the announcement here.
Laura shares her research trajectory and projects, insights into the synergy between experimental and computational chemistry, and her advice for women and young scientists in Nature Computational Science. Read the interview here.
Graduate student, Ben Yeh, is selected as one of the recipients of a 2022 Kokes Award for the 27th North American Catalysis Society meeting in New York, NY being held on May 22-27, 2022. This travel award, sponsored by the North American Catalysis Society, provides funding for the conference registration fee and accommodation to encourage students to attend and participate in this biennial conference.
Sílvia Escayola, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Girona in Spain, joins the group as a visiting scholar during Winter 2022 to collaborate with Gagliardi Group members. Welcome, Sílvia!
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced that four of its leading journals will be under the direction of new editors in chief beginning in 2022, with Laura leading the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC). Read the press release on the ACS website.
Post doc, Aleks Lykhin, is one of two recipients of the 2021-2022 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The award recognizes outstanding postdoctoral researchers and provides a salary top-off. Bravo, Aleks! Read the story on the Physical Sciences Division website.
The Gagliardi Group is excited to launch its new website. Feel free to take a look around!
The Gagliardi Group took to the ice for our holiday party. Happy Holidays!
The Gagliardi group welcomes two graduate students: Shreya Verma and Ricardo Almada Monter.
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.
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!
Graduate student, Saumil Chheda, and former postdoc, WooSeok Jeong, have performed calculations that show how water molecules attach inside the framework of a metal-organic framework, MOF-303, at the atomic level.
Read their paper in Science! This video displays the outcome of this research. This video displays the outcome of this research:
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.