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!
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!