A couple exciting news items:
Group alum Zain Zaidi (now a PhD student in the Subotnik group at Princeton) was names a finalist for the Hertz Foundation Fellowship.
And, group undergraduate Darren Wang was names SBU URECA (Undergrad Research and Creative Activities) Researcher of the Month.
Congratulations to you both!
We are very happy to have first year PhD student Dhiraj Raj officially join the group. Welcome, Dhiraj!
Just before Thanksgiving, Caitlin Hetherington successfully defended her PhD! Caitlin has lead our recent work on hot carrier cooling in semiconductor quantum dots. This week, she started work in the group of Joel Freundlich at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School as a postdoctoral researcher. Congrats, Caitlin!
I’m very happy to share that Thomas Knoll won the ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award! This award recognizes excellent graduate research in the chemical sciences from researchers who are members of the LGBTQIA2S+ (LGBTQ+) community. Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations to Thomas Knoll for be awarded one of this year’s IACS Junior Research Awards! Nice work, Thomas!
Congratulations to Satoshi who successfully defended his Master’s on Thursday! Satoshi, who will be joining the Chemistry PhD program at UT Austin this fall, has done really nice work computing the electronic absorption spectra of atomically precise gold clusters. This work is a collaboration with the group of Chris Johnson here at SBU, and some of the results can be found in this recent preprint. Nice work, Satoshi!
Check out this article in the SBU News regarding Zain Zaidi’s Goldwater Award. Congrats again, Zain!
Check out the newest feature in PySpawn: an interface to the OpenMolCas electronic structure code. This fully open-source option allows you to run ab initio multiple spawning (AIMS) not only with CASSCF, but also several flavors of MS-CASPT2 (MS, XMS, RMS, and XDW). Keep an eye out for a corresponding manuscript to show up on ChemRxiv in the next few days. Lea-Maria Ibele and Davide Avagliano really led this effort, and it’s been a tremendous pleasure for Ben and Arshad to work with them on this!
Welcome to Ubaidullah Hassan, a Chemical Engineering major from the Cooper Union, who will be joining our group this summer as an a participant in the IACS DCD REU program. Ubaid will be working with Arshad to simulate the photodynamics of an ESIPT system.
Postdoc Arshad Mehmood will be moving to a new position as a research scientist in the Division of Information Technology at Stony Brook University. Congratulations to Arshad for this well deserved opportunity! And as a bonus, we’re very excited that despite the new position, we will still have the opportunity to work closely with him.
Levine Research Group at Stony Brook University 
You must be logged in to post a comment.