Northwestern University — Hupp Group
email: neil.schweitzer
@northwestern.edu
phone: 847-491-2955
About Neil Schweitzer:
Neil obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Toledo, his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, and spent two years as a post-doc at Argonne National Lab. He started as the CleanCat lab manager at Northwestern University in January of 2013. His skills and expertise include traditional catalyst synthesis, reactor testing, x-ray adsorption spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, and temperature programmed experiments.
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group
email: bernales
@umn.edu
phone: 612-624-5923
About Varinia Bernales:
Education:
Ph.D in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chile, Chile.
BS in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chile, Chile.
Varinia is a member of the EFRC Newsletter editorial board and also serves as scientific coordinator for the ICDC EFRC. Her current research focuses on mechanistic studies and catalytic activity of metals deposited on metal-organic frameworks using electronic structure theory.
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group; Cramer Group
email: hdemir@umn.edu
phone: 612-624-5923
Northwestern University— Snurr Group
email: hieu.doan
@northwestern.edu
About Hieu Doan:
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2015. My research interest is using state-of-the-art computational chemistry methods to study catalytic reactions relevant to chemical upgrading, energy production and pollution abatement.
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group
email: cgaggiol
@umn.edu
About Carlo Alberto Gaggioli:
Education:
PhD in computational chemistry, University of Perugia, Italy
Research Interests DFT, mechanisms homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, MOF, multireference calculations, single molecule magnets
Argonne National Laboratory — Martinson Group
email: isk@anl.gov
About In Soo Kim:
Research interest: Scale-up of ALD in MOFs for catalysis.
Northwestern University — Hupp Group
email: zhanyong.li
@northwestern.edu
About Zhanyong Li:
Education: Ph.D Texas A&M University
Current research focus: Using MOFs as catalyst supports in gas-phase catalysis.
Northwestern University — Hupp Group
email: jian.liu
@northwestern.edu
About Jian Liu:
Jian Liu obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Binghamton University-SUNY in 2015. His research interests focus on studying MOF-supported heterogeneous catalysts.
University of Minnesota — Cramer Group
email: mmomenit@umn.edu
Clemson University — Getman Group
email: spelliz
@clemson.edu
About Steven L Pellizzeri:
Steven received his BS in polymer chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007 and his Ph.D in chemistry from Syracuse University in 2013. His research interests primarily focus on the microkinetic modelling of catalyst systems for screening and catalyst design.
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group
email: dpresti@umn.edu
About Davide Presti:
Education:
Ph.D. in Physical (Theoretical) Chemistry Université Pierre et Marie Curie/Chimie ParisTech, Paris, France (2015)
Ph.D. in Multiscale Computational Methodologies for Materials and Life Sciences, Università di Modena e Reggio-Emilia, Modena, Italy (2015)
M.Sc. Material Science, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy (2011)
Research interests: optical and charge transfer properties in solid-state, molecular crystals, computational spectroscopy, DFT, multiscale embedding models, solid-state NMR
University of Minnesota — Cramer Group
email: squ@umn.edu
About Shuanglin "Sonny" Qu:
Education:
Ph.D. Computational Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) 2015
Research interests: Catalysis, Transition-metal Chemistry, and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks in catalysis
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group; Truhlar Group
email: sandx053@umn.edu
phone: 612-624-5923
About Andrew Sand:
Research interests: MC-PDFT theory development
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group; Lu Group
email: jvitillo@umn.edu
About Jenny G. Vitillo:
Jenny G. Vitillo received her PhD in Materials Science in 2005 from the University of Torino (Italy). She had a postdoctoral appointment at the same University from 2005-2013 and 2016-2017. Funded by a FIRB project (Italian starting grant), in 2013 she moved to the Department of High Science and Technology of the University of Insubria, Italy. At present, she is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Minnesota. Her research focus on environmental relevant problems by using experimental and computational approaches.
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group; Truhlar Group
email: xwuphd@umn.edu
About Xin-Ping Wu:
Research interests: QM/MM method improvement
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group
email: xiej@umn.edu
phone: 612-624-5923
About Jing Xie:
Research interests: (techniques) electronic structure theory, DFT, molecular dynamics simulations; (problems) potential metal organic frameworks, catalysts, potential energy surfaces, gas phase, condensed phase and interfacial reactions, reaction mechanisms
University of Minnesota — Cramer Group, Gagliardi Group, Truhlar Group
email: jye@umn.edu
About Jingyun Ye:
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. 2009
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. 2014
Research interests: Computational study and design of MOF catalyst
Northwestern University — Hupp Group; Farha Group
email: xuan.zhang
@northwestern.edu
About Xuan Zhang:
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Current research focus: MOF design and synthesis for targeted catalysis.
Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryUC Davis — Lercher Group
email: jian.zheng@pnnl.gov
About Jian Zheng:
Education: Ph.D in inorganic chemistry, Technical University of Munich (2014)
Research interests: Development and implementation of in situ spectroscopic techniques to characterize Metal–Organic Framework-Based catalysts and catalytic processes.
Northwestern University— Farha Group; Notestein Group
email: ahnsol
@u.northwestern.edu
About Sol Ahn:
Education: M.S. (2010) Yonsei University, Chemical Engineering
B.S. (2008) Yonsei University, Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: I am studying selective oxidation reactions in metal organic framework (MOF)-supported catalysts.
University of Minnesota — Truhlar Group
email: baoxx109@umn.edu
About Junwei Bao:
Research interests: Chemical kinetics, variational transition state theory, combustion modeling, transition metal catalysis
Northwestern University — Snurr Group
email: melissabarona2019
@u.northwestern.edu
About Melissa Barona:
Melissa is a graduate student in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Northwestern. She obtained her B.S. in environmental engineering at the University of Miami. Her research interests consist of modeling MOF-supported metal clusters and studying their catalytic activity towards natural gas conversion.
Northwestern University— Notestein Group
email: emilycheng2020
@u.northwestern.edu
About Emily Cheng:
I am a graduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Northwestern. My research interests include synthesizing and characterizing bulk and supported molybdenum sulfide catalysts for light alkane dehydrogenation.
University of Minnesota — Tonks Group
email: dunnx209@umn.edu
About Peter Dunn:
I am a synthetic inorganic chemist. My research as part of the ICDC focuses on loading early transition metals onto NU-1000 and utilizing these new materials for catalytic transformations.
University of Minnesota — Lu Group
email: garrx014@umn.edu
Northwestern University — Snurr Group
email: rosen@u.northwestern.edu
About Andrew Rosen:
Andrew obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University. His research interests are in computational screening of MOF-supported metal clusters for the catalytic conversion of light hydrocarbons in natural gas.
University of Minnesota — Gagliardi Group
email: simo0642@umn.edu
About Matthew Simons:
Education:
MEng Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
University of Minnesota — Penn Group
email: webbe050@umn.edu
About Tom Webber:
Research interests: controlling the synthesis of NU-1000 and using advanced characterization techniques to study the heterogeneity of metal deposition in NU-1000.
Department of Chemistry
207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455
P: 612-625-2636 | E: kapla193@umn.edu