September 2018. Cat Huynh joins the group as a M.Sc. student.  Cat did her B.Sc. with Alex Brown at the University of Alberta.

July 2018. Christina Bakowsky joins the group with a University of Ottawa Undergraduate Research Scholarships.

July 2018.  The Woo lab completed an escape room without any hints from that only 5% of groups complete without hints.  The group also does it in record time.

June 2018.  Negar Parvizi joins the group as an exchange Ph.D. student from Iran.  She will be here until February 2019.  

May 2018. Shyamapada Nandi joins the group as a PDF (co-supervised with Professor Murugesu) to synthesize MOFs. Shyama comes from the group of Prof. Vaidhyanathan  at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

February 2018.  Congratulations to Hanna Dureckova for successfully defending her thesis titled ” Robust Machine Learning QSPR Models for Recognizing High Performing MOFs for Pre-Combustion Carbon Capture and Using Molecular Simulation to Study Adsorption of Water and Gases in Novel MOFs”.  Hanna is moving back to Japan to be closer to family but already has a job lined up in Tokyo.

Jan. 2018.  Ludwig Schwiedrzik joins the group as an exchange Master’s student from the University of Vienna.  Ludwig will do his graduate courses and research project at the University of Ottawa.

April 2017.  The Woo lab has moved to a house on King Edward to accommodate renovations to the old Chemistry building and the construction of the new STEM building.