News

Congrats to Payal and Mohammad for publishing in JACS as a result of nice collaboration with Prof. Bandarenka’s group at TUM.

VA is happy to join the Journal of Physical Chemistry C Editorial Advisory Board starting January 2024.

It was exciting to host Sofia Sarroub-Le Sueur from the Lincoln East High School as a summer intern in our group.

VA is grateful to the Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University for hosting him this summer as a visiting professor.

Congratulations to Iman for landing a job at BMW as an Innovation and Research Engineer!

VA is honored to receive Richard L. McNeel Associate Professorship from the College of Engineering at UNL.

Congratulations to Alexandra for her successful PhD defense!

VA is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective August, 2021.

Congratulations to Iman and Alexandra for publishing in ACS Energy Letters. Great work!

Congrats to Alexandra who has been selected for the 2021 CCMS Summer Internship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory!

VA presents our battery work at the NSF CBET 2020 Energy Storage Workshop (virtual).

VA gives a research webinar in the Quantum Simulations Group of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Congratulations to Alexandra for being accepted to participate in the NSF/DOE/AFOSR Quantum Science Summer School at UC Santa Barbara!

VA receives the NSF CAREER award: UNL News

Congratulations to Nadia for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Great job, Dr. Intan, and best of luck at the University of Washington!

The group first PhD student, Zhen (Jason) Jiang has defended his thesis and leaves the group for his first postdoc position. Jason, we wish you all the best at UPenn!

We are grateful to NSF for awarding a single PI grant to study lithium-ion batteries.

We welcome Iman Evazzade who joins our group as a postdoctoral associate!

Congrats to Alexandra for being accepted as a participant in the 2019 Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry in Colorado this summer!

Congrats to Nadia for receiving a Chemical Engineering Student Support Fund Fellowship of $2000.00!

Nadia receives a Dell Latitude laptop as an award for the 1st place in poster session at the Supercomputer and Life Science Symposium at UNL. Great job!

We congratulate Konstantin on accepting the postdoctoral position at MIT and wish him all the best!

Our collaborative grant with Prof. Barry Cheung (Department of Chemistry) is funded by the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research (NCESR).

Our joint paper with colleagues from Physics Department appears on the cover of Phys. Rev. Lett.

Alexandra Zagalskaya joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome on board!

Konstantin is selected to participate in the ECS Data Science Hack Week at the upcoming Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, WA. Congrats!

Congratulations to Nadia for receiving the Milton E. Mohr Award! The award from the College of Engineering at UNL recognizes students based on their academic performance and potential for accomplishments in their specific field.

VA attends the Gordon Research Conference on Batteries in Ventura, CA.

VA receives a research grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) for research on catalytic CO2 conversion.

Our group is granted National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) allocation award supported by the Department of Energy.

Our group receives XSEDE high-performance computing resource allocation award supported by National Science Foundation.

VA is one of the six recipients of Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award this year.

Nadia and Jason are both accepted and partially funded by the organizers to attend NSF/CECAM School on Computational Materials Science in July 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland. Congrats!

VA receives a joint Interdisciplinary Research Grant from UNL with Prof. Jian Wang from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

Our NSF MRSEC seed project is renewed for the second year.

We welcome Kaellen Miller to our group! Kaellen is a UNL undergraduate chemical engineering major and UCARE recipient.

Nadia Intan joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome!

VA receives the Layman Award from the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the project “Rational Design of Electrolytes for Next-Generation Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries from First-Principles Modeling.”

Dr. Konstantin Klyukin joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Konstantin!

Zhen Jiang (Jason) joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Jason!

VA receives his first grant at UNL — NSF MRSEC seed project “Understanding Electronic, Transport and Defect Properties of Low-Dimensional Ferroelectric Systems from First-Principles” and will be working in collaboration with Prof. Alexei Gruverman from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

VA arrives to Lincoln, NE, to start his research at UNL.