2015 news

Mitch wins a Pittsburgh Quantum Institute poster presentation award at the Science2015 meeting. Way to go Mitch!

The group welcomes new Ph.D. student Yasemin Basdogan. Gemiye Hoşgeldiniz!

Nguyen Vo wins an ASTRO Fellowship to visit and work at Oak Ridge National Labs for six months.

JAK was named by Pittsburgh Business Times’ List for Who’s Who in Energy for 2015.

Karthi wins a travel grant to present at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Phoenix AZ. Way to go Karthi!

The group welcomes new undergraduate students Solomon, Abigail, and Kelly.

JAK gave an invited talk in the COMP division session “Calculating pKas and redox potentials” at the national ACS meeting in Boston.

Karthi visits Anatole von Lilienfeld’s research group at the University of Basel.

Karthi and Mitch give oral presentations and Yaqun gives a poster presentation at the NAM24 meeting in Pittsburgh. Nice work team!

Our group’s computational study (with Neal Mankad, UIC) on hydroborylation with heterobimetallic catalysts was published in ACS Catal.

JAK gave an invited talk at the LONI Institute/LA-SiGMA seminar, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA on Apr. 1.

JAK organized a 6-session symposium with Prof. Amanda Morris at the National ACS Meeting in Denver: “Theoretical and Experimental Synergies at the Frontiers of Renewable Energy Catalysis”.

Our group’s study (with Kyle Grice, DePaul) on the selectivity of borohydride for CO2 and bicarbonate reduction in protic conditions was accepted in the journal Fuel.

Our group’s publication on descriptors for efficient hydride transfers was published in ACS Catal. The local Pittsburgh NPR station did a story on it here.