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May 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Sari who were awarded scholarships
Congratulations to Sari who was awarded a national NSERC USRA fellowship and to Sydney who was awarded a WISE scholarship from the University – both to work in the lab during the summer.
April 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Rhiannon for their award winning undergrad theses.
Congratulations to Sydney and Rhiannon for successfully defending their undergrad thesis work. Rhiannon was awarded the best undergraduate thesis in Chemistry and Sydney was awarded the Hypercube undergraduate thesis award. Sydney’s thesis was titled “The Effect Of Chemically Invalid Metalorganic Frameworks On The Predictive Abilities Of Machine Learning Models” and Rhiannon’s thesis was titled ” A Computational Workflow for Identifying Novel Organic Linkers in MOFs for CO2 Capture”.
April 2025 – Woo joins the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry
Professor Woo was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry.
August 2024 – Two Patent Applications from the Group Made
The group has applied for two patent applications from research funded by TotalEnergies:
Kapeliukha, A.; Gibaldi, M.; White, A.; Woo, T.K. “PROCESSING IN SILICO CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS” International Patent Application PCT/IB2024/000468
White, A.; Gibaldi, M.; Woo, T.K. “ASSIGNING METAL OXIDATION STATES” International Patent Application PCT/IB2024/000468
January 2024 – Our ARC-MOF paper in Chemistry of Materials Editor’s highlights of 2023
Jake’s ARC-MOF paper was highlighted by the editor’s of Chemistry of Materials annual 2023 year in review
Burner et al. “ARC-MOF: A Diverse Database of MOFs with DFT-Derived Partial Atomic Charges and Descriptors for Machine Learning”, Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35, 900. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02485
May 2021 – Marco, Scott and Victoria join the lab.
May 2021 – Marco, Scott and Victoria join the lab. Marco as a Ph.D. candidate, Scott as a M.Sc. candidate and Victoria as a undergraduate summer student.
April 2021 – Jake awarded a NSERC CGS-D Scholarship
April 2021 – Congratulations to Jake for being awarded a NSERC CGS-D scholarship. This is Canada’s top national graduate scholarship.
April 2021 – Congratulations to Adam on his new job.
April 2021 – Congratulations to Adam (M.Sc. student in the lab) for landing a job as a data scientist with Bell Networks. He starts in May.
April 2021 – Lab awarded large MITACS grant
April 2021 – Congratulations to Professor Woo and Professor Arvind Rajendran (University of Alberta) for being awarded ~$500K from MITACS to develop materials for CO2 capture with an industrial sponsor.