Thursday, September 27, 2012

Southeastern Catalysis Society Annual Symposium

Multiple members of our group will be attending the 11th Annual Symposium of the Southeastern Catalysis Society in Asheville, NC on Sept. 30-Oct. 1. If you are attending, look for talks and posters from our group!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Farewell to Xuerong

We are bidding farewell to Xuerong Shi, who is moving from Atlanta to be with her husband in Germany. It has been a pleasure having Xuerong here as a postdoc, where she has done terrific work in collaboration with experiments by the Gellman group at Carnegie Mellon, the Sykes group at Tufts, and the Sievers group at Georgia Tech. Best wishes in the future Xuerong!

Welcome to our visitors from Changzhou University

We are pleased to welcome three visitors to our group from Changzhou University in China, Drs. Jing Zhong, Longyao Wang, and Baozhu Yang. Jing, Longyao, and Baozhu will be visiting us for the next 6 months to develop cooperative research projects. We look forward to getting to know them and having them enjoy Atlanta.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Farewell to Ji

We all wish Ji Zang the best as he and his family leave us to move to Houston. Ji is starting a new job with CGGVeritas, a major geophysical/seismics company after his very successful postdoc position in our group for the past several years.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

New postdocs joining us

It is a pleasure to welcome two new postdocs to our group.

Dr. Veronika Walkosz is joining us having just completed a position in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Lab. Veronika received her PhD in Physics from the University of Ilinois at Chicago.

Dr. Rongshun Zhu is joining us following his experience as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University. Rongshun has extensive experience with high level quantum chemistry calculations and chemical kinetics, and received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry at Jilin University.

Veronika and Rongshun continue our group tradition of interdisciplinary backgrounds, and we look forward to working with them.

Monday, July 30, 2012

People news

This week we bid farewell and best wishes to Tom Manz, who is leaving to become an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.

We also bid a temporary farewell to Nita Chandrasekhar, who is leaving for several months for an internship in the materials modeling group at Intel in the Bay Area. We will look forward to hearing about Nita's adventures when she returns.

Finally, Jeong Woo Han, an alum of our group, will become an Assistant Professor at the University Seoul this fall after completing a postdoc position at MIT.

Congratulations to Tom, Nita, and Jeong Woo on these opportunities.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

New Feature Article in Langmuir

Congratulations to Taku, whose paper has just appeared as a Feature Article in Langmuir. Look for Taku's image on the cover of the journal when the final published version is available!

Accelerating Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Adsorption and Separation by Computational Screening of Materials
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la301915s

Taku has recently moved to a new job working with Samsung in Japan. We wish Taku all the best in his future endeavors and will miss having him in Atlanta.