About the Speaker:

Awards and Honors:

• • 2024 State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor
• • 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
• • 2022 Elected Vice-Chair APS Division of Computational Physics
• • 2021 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
• • 2016 APT Teaching Award, University at Buffalo
• • 2014 QSCP Promising Young Scientist Award of CMOA
• • 2014 UB Exceptional Scholar, Young Invesigator Award
• • 2014 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award
• • 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
• • 2002-2006: International Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials Fellowship

Research:

The research in my group focuses on studying the electronic and geometrical structures, properties, and reactivity of molecules, nanosystems, interfaces and solids – whether they be inorganic or organic – using the computational approaches of quantum chemistry and solid state physics (band structure methods).