• 04/21/2020 – Our REU student Rebekah Duke (Lipscomb University) has been selected to present her research that she performed in our group at the virtual Posters on the Hill event. You can visit her virtual poster here.

 

• 04/01/2020 – Congratulations to our 2nd-year grad students Virginia, Brett, and Grier for passing successfully their CRP defense! Your hard work has been rewarded!!!

 

• 03/10/2020 – We are looking for talented and motivated undergraduate students who would like to work in the field of quantum chemistry and/or data sciences during Summer 2020. If you are interested, please send your CV at kvogiatz@utk.edu.

 

• 11/27/2019 – The group would like to welcome the two graduate students Varuna and Tobias who joined our team this Fall!

 

• 11/12/2019 – John’s first first-author paper is out! Read here about his wonderful study on CO₂ interactions with functionalized calixarenes.

 

• 09/19/2019 – Rajesh‘s first manuscript was selected as a “hot paper” from the editor of Angewandte Chemie! That was a result of a wonderful collaboration with Drs. Chen and Shustova (University of South Carolina). Follow this link to learn more about selective catalysis at unique Rh(II) nodes of MOFs.

 

• 09/05/2019 – Dr. Vogiatzis and graduate student Jacob Townsend gave multiple presentations at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego, CA.

 

• 06/27/2019 – Check Jacob’s recent paper on data-driven acceleration of the CCSD method. Just accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

 

• 04/30/2019 – Our group members, Alexa Griffith, Gavin McCarver and John Hymel, won multiple departmental awards this year! Gavin received the outstanding teaching award and the second-year candidacy award, John received the C. A. Buehler Chemistry Scholarship and the Melaven-Rhenium Scholariship, and Alexa the Melaven-Rhenium Scholariship as well. Congratulations!

 

• 04/23/2019 – We are very excited that our undergraduate student John Hymel won two awards (Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award, Award of Excellence) in the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) annual event at the University of Tennessee. John presented his work on CO₂ interactions with functionalized calixarenes.

 

• 09/19/2019 – Rajesh‘s first manuscript was selected as a “hot paper” from the editor of Angewandte Chemie! That was a result of a wonderful collaboration with Drs. Chen and Shustova (University of South Carolina). Follow this link to learn more about selective catalysis at unique Rh(II) nodes of MOFs.

 

• 09/05/2019 – Dr. Vogiatzis and graduate student Jacob Townsend gave multiple presentations at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego, CA.

 

• 06/27/2019 – Check Jacob’s recent paper on data-driven acceleration of the CCSD method. Just accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

 

• 04/30/2019 – Our group members, Alexa Griffith, Gavin McCarver and John Hymel, won multiple departmental awards this year! Gavin received the outstanding teaching award and the second-year candidacy award, John received the C. A. Buehler Chemistry Scholarship and the Melaven-Rhenium Scholariship, and Alexa the Melaven-Rhenium Scholariship as well. Congratulations!

 

• 04/23/2019 – We are very excited that our undergraduate student John Hymel won two awards (Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award, Award of Excellence) in the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) annual event at the University of Tennessee. John presented his work on CO₂ interactions with functionalized calixarenes.

 

• 04/23/2019 – Kostas Vogiatzis has joined the editorial board of the Catalysts journal (section Computational Catalysis).

 

• 04/09/2019 – Check our recent paper on non-covalent interactions between functionalized boranes and N₂/O₂ molecules. We believe that these molecular units can be used for efficient gas separations. Thank you Jacob (graduate student) and Nicole (REU student, Summer 2018) for your wonderful work!

 

• 02/07/2019 – Our paper on “N₂-phobic” polymers is now online! That was a result of a wonderful collaboration with the groups of Dr. Brian Long and Dr. John A. Lawrence (Aramco).

 

• 01/15/2019 – Dr. Zahid Rashid joined our group as a post-doctoral research associate. Zahid, welcome to the team!

 

• 11/30/2018 – Graduate student Gavin McCarver (co-advised by Dr. Hinde, as well) defended successfully his candidacy research proposal. Congratulations, Gavin!

 

• 11/21/2018 – Three graduate students joined our group this Fall. Virginia, Brett, and Grier, welcome aboard!

 

• 11/12/2018 – Jacob Townsend and Kostas Vogiatzis attended PsiCon, the Psi4 developers meeting in Atlanta, GA. Jacob won the best lightning talk award. Congratulations!

 

• 11/05/2018 – Kostas Vogiatzis gave a talk at SERMACS18 in Augusta, GA. We have been very pleased that many undergraduate students had shown interest in our work!

 

• 10/30/2018 – Our Chemical Reviews article on computational catalysis is out! This was a collaborative work together with the research group of Prof. Evgeny Pidko (Delft University, Netherlands).