Professor Sophya "Sonya" Garashchuk
M.S., 1992, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Ph.D., 1999, University of Notre Dame
Postdoc 1999-2001, University of Chicago in the group of John Light
Niranji Thilini Ekanayake
Niranji joined the group in October 2015. She is from Kurunegala, Sri Lanka and received a B.Sc. (honors in computational chemistry) in 2014 from the University of Colombo. Her undergraduate research was done with Professor Samantha Weerasinghe on, " Investigation of the association of caffeine with aromatic drug molecules."
Recent Graduates
Bing Gu
Bing joined the theory group in November 2011and graduated with a Ph.D. in August of 2016. In his doctoral research, he explored estimation of the quantum effects of nuclei in large molecular system. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Ignacio Franco at the Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, NY.
Jim Mazzuca
Jim joined the group in the Fall of 2009 and graduated with a Ph.D. in May of 2014. In his doctoral research, he explored the effects of substrate motion and of the quantum behavior of the proton during the rate-limiting step of the Soybean Lipoxygenase-1 reaction. He is currently teaching chemistry and doing research at Alma College, Alma, Michigan.
Collaborators
Vitaly Rassolov
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
Jacek Jakowski
Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Lab
Former Members
Postdoctoral fellows
- Tijo Vazhappilly
- Michail Volkov
- David Dell'Angelo
- Lei Wang
Undegradutes
- Mallory Muller
- Travis Harris
- Ellen Heath
- Megan Gee
- William Petroff
- Kelby Killoy
Visiting students
- Vaibhav Dixit
- Narla Darnish
- Ievegniia Savchenko
Pre-College students
- Nathan Sairam
- William McAdams
- Micahel Slattery
- Albert Wang