Dr. Ivan Popov was recently featured by Washington State University’s College of Arts and Sciences as a recipient of the Meyer Early Career Launch Fellowship. The fellowship provides valuable support for early-career faculty, enabling them to develop new research directions, support students, strengthen collaborations, and pursue ambitious scientific questions. This support has contributed to the […]
We are excited to welcome Dr. Azmain Faek Islam, who has joined the Popov Group as a postdoctoral researcher. His background spans computational materials science, including ab initio molecular dynamics, DFT, and machine-learned interatomic potentials. Dr. Islam’s previous work examined ion transport and coordination chemistry in molten uranium chloride salts as well as defect-driven mechanical […]
We are excited to congratulate Iaroslav on successfully passing his PhD qualifying exam. This important milestone reflects his hard work, preparation, and dedication throughout his graduate studies.
We are proud to congratulate Chad on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation! During his doctoral studies, Chad distinguished himself through exceptional research productivity and scientific achievement, publishing 13 papers and presenting his work at numerous professional conferences and meetings. His dedication and accomplishments were recognized in the Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Annual, […]
Graduate student Iaroslav received the award named in honor of former WSU chemist Professor Glenn A. Crosby! This award recognizes a student who delivers an outstanding physical chemistry seminar.
Dr. Ivan Popov has been selected as a Co-Lead of the National Security Pillar within Washington State University’s OneNuclear Initiative, a university-wide effort to unify and expand nuclear research, development, education, and strategic partnerships across the WSU system. The OneNuclear program brings together faculty and staff from multiple campuses and colleges to develop a coordinated […]
We are proud to share two recent publication highlights from our group. First-author papers by graduate students Chad and Iaroslav received special recognition: Chad’s paper in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics was selected for the journal’s Front Outside Cover, and Iaroslav’s paper was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A special issue, “Steve Scheiner Festschrift”. […]
The group warmly congratulates Dr. Sourav Dey and his family on this wonderful new addition! We are very happy for him and his loved ones and wish them health, happiness, and many joyful moments together!
We are pleased to have Athena as the newest undergraduate member of our research group. She will contribute to our efforts to better understand covalent interactions in lanthanide and actinide systems, with a focus on evaluating orbital overlap and orbital energy matching effects in metal–ligand bonding. We are happy to have Athena on board and […]
Congratulations to Iaroslav Gureev, second-year graduate student, on the acceptance of his first journal article in Organometallics!In this work, Iaroslav corroborates experimental findings from our collaborator Prof. Boncella’s group through detailed computational analysis. He investigates U(III)–(η⁶-arene) π- and δ-back-bonding interactions in Cp* terphenylamido U(III) iodide and borohydride complexes, assesses the covalency of 3c–2e U–H–B interactions, […]
