December 2025: Qi Sun joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Qi!
June 2025: Goodbye to Alex, who will start his Ph.D. journey at UIUC this fall. We wish him the best of success!
May 2025: Wayne State University successfully held the 55th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (MWTCC55).
April 2025: Zhenfei receives the Career Development Chair Award from the university. We thank colleagues for their support and the award committee for the recognition!
April 2025: Congrats to students in the group: Alex won the ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry from the department. Moses received the Rumble Fellowship from the graduate school and the A. Paul and Carole C. Schaap Endowed Distinguished Graduate Award from the department. Congrats, Alex and Moses!
April 2025: Atish Ghosh joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome, Atish!
July 2024: Alex joins the group as an undergraduate researcher, who also performs experimental work in the Brock group. Welcome, Alex!
July 2024: Timothy successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats, Dr. Quainoo!
May 2024: Joseph successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats, Dr. Frimpong!
April 2024: Zhenfei is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective August 2024.
February 2024: Zhenfei receives an outstanding graduate mentor award from the graduate school. He thanks his past and current students for the nomination and support.
February 2024: Thrilled to receive the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship! We are so grateful for the support from colleagues and the recognition from the selection committee.
September 2023: Gyanu Kafle joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!
May 2023: Excited to receive the ACS Cadence/OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry! We are grateful for the support from colleagues in the field.
May 2023: Goodbye to Dr. Sandip Aryal, who is starting his second postdoc appointment at Los Alamos National Lab.
April 2023: Congratulations to two students in the group: Joseph receives a Summer 2023 Dissertation Award and Timothy receives the Esther and Stanley Kirschner General Chemistry Teaching Award. Well done, Joseph and Timothy!
April 2023: Zhenfei received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from Wayne State University Academy of Scholars. We thank the Academy members for their support!
December 2022: First-year graduate students, Amos Afugu and Moses Adeyemo join the group. Welcome!
October 2022: Congrats to Dr. Adeniran on successfully defending his Ph.D.! He will join Intel as an Engineer.
September 2022: Tejas Karun joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
August 2022: Excited to team up with Brock Lab at Wayne State and Huang Lab at Marquette for a DOE Clean Energy project!
August 2022: Goodbye to Naseem, who has taken a postdoc position at Colorado School of Mines. Bon voyage, Naseem!
April 2022: Congratulations to students in the group: Timothy for graduate teaching award; Gbenga for Dan Trivich memorial award for research in physical chemistry; Joseph for the Rumble fellowship from the graduate school. Well done!
December 2021: Tayo Olowolafe joins the group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!
December 2021: Congratulations to Sydney on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis! She will join Argonne National Lab as a postdoc. Bon voyage, Dr. Lavan!
November 2021: Gbenga's paper on molecule-TMD interfaces is published in J. Chem. Phys. as part of the 2021 JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection.
October 2021: Timothy's first paper, on metal-organic frameworks, is published in J. Mater. Res. as an invited feature paper as part of the early career scholars in materials science 2022 special issue.
October 2021: Sandip Aryal joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
April 2021: Joseph's first paper, on embedding GW calculations of COF-metal interfaces, is accepted at J. Phys.: Condens. Matter as an article included in the Emerging Leaders special issue. Congratulations!
April 2021: Gbenga received the Rumble Fellowship from the graduate school. Congratulations!
March 2021: Naseem Ud Din joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
February 2021: We are thrilled and grateful to receive the NSF CAREER Award!
September 2020: Thanks to Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award!
June 2020: Gbenga's first paper, on GW calculations of P3HT:PCBM interface, is accepted at J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations!
April 2020: We are awarded a University Research Grant, supporting our effort in studying transport properties of charged species in molecular junctions.
February 2020: The first paper of our group is published in J. Chem. Phys., with which we start our journey in the development of embedding GW-BSE methods.
December 2019: Two graduate students, Joseph Frimpong and Timothy Quainoo join the group. Welcome!
October 2019: Big thanks to American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for funding our proposal on computational studies of Metal-Organic Frameworks! We are thrilled to enter into this field, a brand new research direction for the group!
July 2019: We are grateful to the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation for funding our joint proposal in collaboration with Dr. Sivan Refaely-Abramson from the Weizmann Institute. We look forward to exploring interfacial exciton dissociation processes.
June 2019: Blaine Oania and Anthony Colasanti from Utica Center of Math, Science, and Technology come to our group for high school junior internship. Welcome!
February 2019: Sydney Lavan becomes a member of the group, co-advised by Prof. A. S. Rury. Welcome!
December 2018: Our computing cluster has arrived! We look forward to utilizing it to its full potential.
November 2018: Olugbenga Adeniran joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome!
August 2018: Liu group @ Wayne State is launched!
June 2025: Goodbye to Alex, who will start his Ph.D. journey at UIUC this fall. We wish him the best of success!
May 2025: Wayne State University successfully held the 55th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (MWTCC55).
April 2025: Zhenfei receives the Career Development Chair Award from the university. We thank colleagues for their support and the award committee for the recognition!
April 2025: Congrats to students in the group: Alex won the ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry from the department. Moses received the Rumble Fellowship from the graduate school and the A. Paul and Carole C. Schaap Endowed Distinguished Graduate Award from the department. Congrats, Alex and Moses!
April 2025: Atish Ghosh joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome, Atish!
July 2024: Alex joins the group as an undergraduate researcher, who also performs experimental work in the Brock group. Welcome, Alex!
July 2024: Timothy successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats, Dr. Quainoo!
May 2024: Joseph successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats, Dr. Frimpong!
April 2024: Zhenfei is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective August 2024.
February 2024: Zhenfei receives an outstanding graduate mentor award from the graduate school. He thanks his past and current students for the nomination and support.
February 2024: Thrilled to receive the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship! We are so grateful for the support from colleagues and the recognition from the selection committee.
September 2023: Gyanu Kafle joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!
May 2023: Excited to receive the ACS Cadence/OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry! We are grateful for the support from colleagues in the field.
May 2023: Goodbye to Dr. Sandip Aryal, who is starting his second postdoc appointment at Los Alamos National Lab.
April 2023: Congratulations to two students in the group: Joseph receives a Summer 2023 Dissertation Award and Timothy receives the Esther and Stanley Kirschner General Chemistry Teaching Award. Well done, Joseph and Timothy!
April 2023: Zhenfei received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from Wayne State University Academy of Scholars. We thank the Academy members for their support!
December 2022: First-year graduate students, Amos Afugu and Moses Adeyemo join the group. Welcome!
October 2022: Congrats to Dr. Adeniran on successfully defending his Ph.D.! He will join Intel as an Engineer.
September 2022: Tejas Karun joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
August 2022: Excited to team up with Brock Lab at Wayne State and Huang Lab at Marquette for a DOE Clean Energy project!
August 2022: Goodbye to Naseem, who has taken a postdoc position at Colorado School of Mines. Bon voyage, Naseem!
April 2022: Congratulations to students in the group: Timothy for graduate teaching award; Gbenga for Dan Trivich memorial award for research in physical chemistry; Joseph for the Rumble fellowship from the graduate school. Well done!
December 2021: Tayo Olowolafe joins the group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!
December 2021: Congratulations to Sydney on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis! She will join Argonne National Lab as a postdoc. Bon voyage, Dr. Lavan!
November 2021: Gbenga's paper on molecule-TMD interfaces is published in J. Chem. Phys. as part of the 2021 JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection.
October 2021: Timothy's first paper, on metal-organic frameworks, is published in J. Mater. Res. as an invited feature paper as part of the early career scholars in materials science 2022 special issue.
October 2021: Sandip Aryal joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
April 2021: Joseph's first paper, on embedding GW calculations of COF-metal interfaces, is accepted at J. Phys.: Condens. Matter as an article included in the Emerging Leaders special issue. Congratulations!
April 2021: Gbenga received the Rumble Fellowship from the graduate school. Congratulations!
March 2021: Naseem Ud Din joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
February 2021: We are thrilled and grateful to receive the NSF CAREER Award!
September 2020: Thanks to Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award!
June 2020: Gbenga's first paper, on GW calculations of P3HT:PCBM interface, is accepted at J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations!
April 2020: We are awarded a University Research Grant, supporting our effort in studying transport properties of charged species in molecular junctions.
February 2020: The first paper of our group is published in J. Chem. Phys., with which we start our journey in the development of embedding GW-BSE methods.
December 2019: Two graduate students, Joseph Frimpong and Timothy Quainoo join the group. Welcome!
October 2019: Big thanks to American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for funding our proposal on computational studies of Metal-Organic Frameworks! We are thrilled to enter into this field, a brand new research direction for the group!
July 2019: We are grateful to the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation for funding our joint proposal in collaboration with Dr. Sivan Refaely-Abramson from the Weizmann Institute. We look forward to exploring interfacial exciton dissociation processes.
June 2019: Blaine Oania and Anthony Colasanti from Utica Center of Math, Science, and Technology come to our group for high school junior internship. Welcome!
February 2019: Sydney Lavan becomes a member of the group, co-advised by Prof. A. S. Rury. Welcome!
December 2018: Our computing cluster has arrived! We look forward to utilizing it to its full potential.
November 2018: Olugbenga Adeniran joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome!
August 2018: Liu group @ Wayne State is launched!
