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!
Thomas receives Junior Researcher Award!
Congratulations to Thomas Knoll for be awarded one of this year’s IACS Junior Research Awards! Nice work, Thomas!
Congratulations, Satoshi!
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!
Zain in the News
Check out this article in the SBU News regarding Zain Zaidi’s Goldwater Award. Congrats again, Zain!
Congratulations, Arshad!
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.
Zain named Goldwater Scholar!
Congratulations to Zain Zaidi for being named a 2024 Goldwater Scholar! Over the last almost two years, under Arshad’s mentorship, Zain has been working on several photochemistry projects. Well done, Zain!
Zain wins ACS COMP Undergrad Poster Award!
Congratulations to Zain, who (as a rising sophomore!) won the ACS COMP Division Undergraduate Poster Award at the Fall 2023 National Meeting of the ACS in San Francisco. Great job, Zain, and great job to his postdoc mentor, Arshad!
Update: SBU did a news article on Zain and Arshad’s accomplishment. Check it out!
Congratulations, Almost-Dr Durden!
Congratulations to Andy Durden, who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Next month, Andy will be joining the group of Berny Schlegel at Wayne State University. Keep up the good work, Andy!
Welcome Back, Jiri!
Jiri Suchan rejoins the group as an IACS Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome back, and congratulations!
Congrats, Ken!
Congratulations to Ken, who successfully defended is MS thesis last week! Ken has done wonderful work with our collaborators in the Jiao group, developing novel strategies for compressing the CI vector of strongly correlated systems. (Stay tuned for a publication.) Ken is moving to Brown University to pursue his PhD.
Levine Research Group at Stony Brook University 
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