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, […]
Congratulations Chad on being highlighted by the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) in their 2025 Academic Programs Annual! Keep up the good work towards advancing national nuclear security and sustainable nuclear energy through your computational chemistry insights!
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sourav Dey, our new postdoctoral researcher, to the group. Dr. Dey brings deep expertise in multireference computational methods, particularly in the study of magnetic materials. His research focuses on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of lanthanide and actinide compounds. We look forward to learning from his experience and […]
Good news! Iaroslav has been selected to receive both the “College of Arts & Sciences Scholarship Fund” and the “Florence and George Handy Endowed Scholarship in Sciences” because of his high academic standing within the Washington State University College of Arts and Sciences. We are thankful for the generous contributions from the scholarship donors that […]
Congrats Chad! His article (#11!) in Nat. Chem. is highlighted in C&EN magazine!!! Check out the first Pr5+ molecular compound in a singlet ground state with significant multiconfigurational character: https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Praseodymium-powers-435/103/web/2025/04 Our calculations reveal the presence of an inverted ligand field—an unusual electronic configuration where the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals are predominantly ligand-based rather than metal-centered. […]
Congratulations to Chad Studvick with #10 publication during his Ph.D.!!! Chad, keep up great work! Check out this most recent article in Polyhedron: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277538725001536#aep-article-footnote-id1
