Group Awards Round Up

The group is collecting awards faster than I can get it together to post them on the website, so here is a round up:

Soon-to-defend Ph.D. student, Thomas Knoll, will receive two awards at commencement: The Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service and the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student

Ubaid Hassan, who spent the summer of 2024 with us as part of the IACS DCD REU program, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the group of Andrew Rappe at U. Penn.

And last but not least, former group undergraduate Zain Zaidi was awarded the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Zain is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Princeton in the group of Joe Subotnik.

Congratulations and nice work, all around!

April 15, 2026

Congratulations, Caitlin!

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!

December 3, 2025

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!

August 10, 2024

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!

August 12, 2023

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.

April 29, 2023

Farewell, Alex!

Farewell to postdoc Alex Teplukhin, who is leaving us for a job at Intel. Good luck, Alex!

June 9, 2022

Yinan Shu Wins ACS COMP Wiley Award

Belated congratulations to former Levine group graduate student, Yinan Shu, for being awarded the Spring 2021 Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award by the ACS COMP Division. Congrats, Yinan!

May 28, 2021

Scott Fales wins ACS COMP Wiley Award

Congratulations to former Levine group graduate student, Scott Fales, for being awarded the Fall 2021 Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award by the ACS COMP division. Congrats, Scott!

May 28, 2021

Yinan Shu Receives Hochstrasser Award!

Congratulations to Levine group graduate, Yinan Shu, on receiving the 2020 Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award from the journal Chemical Physics! Named for eminent spectroscopist and long-time Chemical Physics editor, Robin Hochstrasser, this award is given to one chemical physicist each year, who must be under 40 years of age and without a permanent academic appointment. Nice work, Yinan, keep racking up those awards!

August 10, 2020

Congratulations Almost-Dr. Esch!

Congratulations to Mike Esch, who successfully defended this Ph.D. dissertation this week! Mike has done excellent work on a number of topics, including lead halide perovskites, cyanine dyes, conical intersection “locality,” and nonadiabatic molecular dynamics methods for dense manifolds of electronic states. Lucky for us, Mike will be staying on as a postdoc in our group!

August 6, 2020

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