Happy to share that Sara Skrabalak and myself have been awarded a new NSF DMR Solid State Chemistry grant for our collaborative project on photoluminescent oxyhalides with bismuth lone pairs! 🎉
Varsha Attends IEEE Ferroschool at Oak Ridge National Labs
Congratulations (again) to Varsha for being accepted and attending the IEEE Ferroschool at Oak Ridge National Labs. She is learning about a wide range of theoretical, experimental and AI-related tools for ferroelectric & polar materials study and discovery. We can’t wait to hear what she will learn.
We congratulate Varsha for her multiple awards this year. These include a first prize for best student presentation at the Electronic Materials and Applications conference in February in Denver, a teaching award from the department for teaching with Alex this year, and a Kindig Fellowship that will help support her research during the third year of her Ph.D.
Congratulations Emily and Good Luck at Princeton
Congratulations Emily! Emily is the first undergraduate student to graduate from our group. She did a remarkable amount of work of high complexity during her time in the group, including the first paper accurately modeling lone pairs in a solid using Wannier functions. We will miss her high energy and kindness, and wish her good luck during her Ph.D at Princeton.
Group Trip to Electronic Materials And Applications – Denver, 2025
Awesome work Emily, Bipasa, Varsha and Carina presenting your work at the Electronic Materials & Applications (EMA) conference in Denver last week, part of ACerS (American Ceramics Society)! And congratulations Varsha for winning 1st place for the best student presentation award for the entire conference!