2020
November 2020
- Patel Group had its annual holiday party virtually.
- Jeongmoon Choi, Alexander Johnson, and Jimin Yoon joined the group!
- Nick Rego successfully defended his thesis and is continuing at the Patel group as a postdoc. Congratulations, Nick!
September 2020
- Yusheng Cai joined the group!
- Hao Jiang moved to Wisconsin and started working as a computational chemist at SC Johnson. Congratulations, Hao!
May 2020
- Lizhu Zhang joined the group!
- Debdas Dhabal joined the Molinero group at the University of Utah as a postdoc. Congratulations, Debdas!
April 2020
- Lilia Escobedo was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Lilia! NSF GRFP webpage
2019
December 2019
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Patel Group celebrated its annual holiday party!
- Nick Rego and Amish attended the 2019 BMB Retreat at Penn.
November 2019
- Lilia Escobedo, Kevin Juan, Jun Lu, and Akash Pallath joined the group!
- Zachariah Vicars presented at Villanova to Undergraduate students interested in participating in the REACT program.
- Amish gave an invited talk at the AIChE annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. Link
October 2019
- Aniket Thosar joined the group!
August 2019
- Amish, Debdas, Nick, and Sean attended the GRC on the Chemistry and Physics of Liquids. Conference webpage
July 2019
- Sean Marks attended the CSGF Annual Program Review in Arlington.
June 2019
- Amish Patel received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Link
May 2019
- Debdas Dhabal presented a poster at the 4th annual Penn Polymer Symposium.
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Zachariah Vicars went to Grenoble, France for 10 weeks as part of a collaboration with French REACT partners.
Penn Today article
- Nick Rego attended the Foundational and Applied Data Science for Molecular and Material Science and Engineering Workshop.
- Amish Patel received the 2019 Van Ness Award from the CBE department at RPI. Article
April 2019
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Patel Group went out to lunch to celebrate Amish getting tenure. Congratulations!
March 2019
- Debdas Dhabal presented at the Symposium on Advanced Simulation Methods: DFT, MD and Beyond at IIT Delhi in New Delhi.
2018
October 2018
- PLUMED INDUS is available for download. Special thanks to Sean Marks for developing this package! INDUS Code
June 2018
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Amish Patel received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Penn's Student Chapter of AIChE. Congratulations!
May 2018
- Nick Rego and Zachary Varley attended the 2018 Materials and Data Science Hackathon at NC State.
- Amish Patel received the ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Article
2017
December 2017
- Zachariah Vicars received the REACT Trainee Fellowship. REACT home page
September 2017
- Amish Patel received the 2017 Sloan Fellowship. SRF
May 2017
- Erte successfully defended his thesis and is moving on to a job at Procter and Gamble in Cinncinati. Congrats, Erte!
- Suruchi successfully defended his thesis and began a job at Pfizer in Boston. Congrats!
March 2017
- Amish Patel received the 2017 NSF CAREER award! More
2016
August 2016
- Sean Marks received the DOE CSGF Fellowship. Congratulations! DOE CSGF Information
January 2016
- Amish Patel received the 2016 Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting Young Investigator Award! Meeting website
2015
November 2015
- Erte and Rick's paper on the role of fluctuations in modulating the pathways to dewetting in hydrophobic confinement gets press! Story on PennNews
2015
- Amish Patel received the Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Research Award! Article
2013-14
August 2014
- Erte Xi won the Best Poster Prize at the 2014 Gordon Research Conference on "Water and Aqueous Solutions". Congratulations Erte!
February 2013
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Amish's paper on characterizing the hydrophobicity of complex proteins using a novel, highly efficient method was featured on the cover of the February 13, 2014 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
