Brian presents on “Understanding and predicting adsorption energies on monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides” at the Oden Institute Materials Discovery Seminar.
November 2024
Wennie helps to organize a session on “Characterization, Theory, and Data Science for Electronic and Photonic Materials” for the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.
October 2024
A new paper is out in ACS Energy Letters about effects of solvation and effects on different surface compositions of photoelectrodes. Check it out!
October 2024
YoungJu (Mia) Son joins as a ChE graduate student. Welcome, Mia!
October 2024
Suk Gyu Lim joins as a ChE graduate student. Welcome, Suk Gyu!
October 2024
Wennie is awarded with one of the 2024 Reviewer Excellence Awards for PRX Energy and the 2025 APS Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, which recognizes achievements by an early-career woman in physics.
October 2024
Wennie attends the ASEE NETI-1 workshop on effective teaching, hosted at Purdue University.
August 2024
Brian presents a poster on a “First-principles investigation into the adsorption on monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides” at the GRC on Defects in Semiconductors.
August 2024
Wennie gives an invited talk at Nano Korea 2024 entitled “Towards Defect Engineering in Memristors based on Low-Dimensional Materials”
July 2024
Wennie starts a two-year term on the Early-Career Board for the Chem & Bio Engineering journal, a new ACS journal.
July 2024
Wei presents on “Exploring the role of vacancies in iron oxides” at the Longhorn Research Poster Session.
April 2024
Wennie gives an invited talk at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit entitled “Harnessing Materials Imperfections: Adsorption-mediated phenomena in energy sustainability“
April 2024
Jing passes his quals, congrats!
April 2024
Roozbeh presents on the “Role of the sulfur vacancy in the switching mechanism of MoS2-based memristors” at the 2024 APS March Meeting.
February 2024
Roozbeh presents on the “Role of point defects in the switching mechanism of MoS2-based memristors” at the Oden Institute Materials Discovery Seminar.
February 2024
Roozbeh publishes on the “Nature of point defects in monolayer MoS2 and the MoS2/Au heterostructure” in the Journal of Applied Physics. Congrats!
February 2024
Wennie gives an invited talk at the NIST Quantum Matters in Materials workshop on “Point defects in low-dimensional materials for next-generation memory and computing devices“
February 2024
Xin Chang joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Xin!
January 2024
Wennie is recognized with the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering’s 2023 Schechter–Wissler–Stice Teaching Excellence Award in Chemical Engineering (TEAChE).
December 2023
Alexa presents at MRS Fall 2023 Meeting and Exhibition on “Investigation of FeOOH in Mechanisms for Water-Splitting Reactions”
November 2023
Kody joins as a ChE graduate student. Welcome Kody!
October 2023
Brian is awarded the John and Mary Booker Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Engineering. Congrats Brian!
August 2023
Wennie gives an invited talk at the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition.
March 2023
Jing gives a presentation at the UT Energy Institute Energy Week.
March 2023
Wennie receives the APS 5 Sigma Physicist Honor, which recognizes efforts in scientific advocacy.
2023
A new paper is out in JACS about using first-principles calculations and resonant photoemission spectroscopy to understand hydroxylation of complex oxide surfaces.
Check it out!
September 2022
Wennie hosts a workshop for the 2022 AICHE Southwest Student Regional Conference about the decision to pursue a PhD. Check it out.
April 2022
Alexa Anderson joins as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Alexa!
April 2022
Wennie gives a talk at APS March Meeting on “Computational and Experimental Insights into the BiVO4 (010) surface and interface for water-splitting applications.”
March 2022
Wennie gives a talk at Fermilab on “Navigating the job market as a physics and STEM degree holder (in the era of COVID),” hosted by Fermilab Student and Postdoc Association as an APS Career Mentoring Fellow.
January 2022
Avery Delost joins as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Avery!
January 2022
Wennie is the chair elect in the American Physical Society Forum for Early Career Scientists (APS FECS). She transitions from her term as member-at-large.
January 2022
The Wang (Modern) Materials group officially starts!
January 2022
Wennie participates as a panelist in “Learn from the Early Career Faculty Webinar Series- Part 1: The Application Process,” as part of the MRS Webinar Series. Check it out!
July 2021