Welcome to the research web page of Professor Tom Woo, at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, the University of Ottawa. We are situated in the beautiful city of Ottawa – Canada’s National Capital. Our principle research interests lie in the fields of computational chemistry, machine learning and their applications to carbon capture and storage, clean energy technologies and catalysis. We are involved in the development and application of state-of-the-art machine learning models and atomistic simulations to model chemical systems. Our group is also heavily involved in advanced scientific computing and we run our own recently-upgraded 2000+ CPU core and GPU high performance computing facility.
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Recent Group News
- March 2026 – Compute Ontario highlight’s the Woo lab’s research.
- March 2026 – Group Hockey Game Outing
- Feb. 2026 – New group members Grace and Aziz defeated by the Pho Challenge.
- Feb. 2026 -Our MOSAEC-DB paper part of the most popular porous materials collection in Chemical Science
- June 2025 – Andrew, Jake, Marco, Ohmin, Jun & Rosa present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference(CSC 2025)
- May 2025 – Andrew’s MOSAEC paper has been published in JACS
- May 2025 – Prof. Woo delivers Plenary Lecture at MedPore 2025 in Morocco
- May 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Sari who were awarded scholarships
- April 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Rhiannon for their award winning undergrad theses.