Many congratulations to Carlos Huang-Zhu, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award! Bravo on the well-deserved award!
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Welcome to Srija and Ugo!
The group is thrilled to welcome two new first-year PhD students: Srija Chakraborty and Ugochukwu (Ugo) Ikegwu! Ugo is also co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala. We’re thrilled to have them both – learn more about …
New papers + highlights in Nature and Science!
Several new papers have come out from the group lately, including: Medium-chain lipid conjugation facilitates cell-permeability and bioactivity – a new paper in JACS to which ByungUk contributed Expanding plastics recycling technologies: Chemical aspects, technology …
Reid promoted to associate professor with tenure!
Reid has received tenure and been named the Hunt-Hougen Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering! We are tremendously grateful to all group members, colleagues, collaborators, and mentors, past and present, who contributed to the …
Jonathan defends his PhD thesis!
Dr. Jonathan Sheavly is the newest PhD recipient from the Van Lehn group!!! Jonathan defended a thesis entitled “Multiscale Modeling for the Design of Responsive Soft Materials.” Many congratulations to Jonathan – we wish him …
New paper by Lisa!
Lisa’s new paper, entitled “On the integration of molecular dynamics, data science, and experiments for studying solvent effects on catalysis,” was just published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering! The paper reviews the group’s recent work …
New paper in JCP!
A new paper from Atharva and Brad – “Identifying nonadditive contributions to the hydrophobicity of chemically heterogeneous surfaces via dual-loop active learning” – has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics! They develop an …
ByungUk joins the group!
We’re happy to welcome ByungUk Park as a new group member! ByungUk is a first-year student in the Biophysics Program – we look forward to his contributions!
Carlos and Josh join the group + group climbing!
We’re happy to welcome Carlos Huang-Zhu and Josh Richardson as new group members! Carlos and Josh are both first-year CBE students and we look forward to their contributions. To celebrate, the group visiting Boulder’s Climbing …
Reid receives 2021 CoMSEF Young Investigator Award
Reid was named the winner of the 2021 CoMSEF Young Investigator award! He is cited “for the development and application of computational techniques to understand the interfacial properties of functionalized nanomaterials and their interactions with …