Group Activities

Group dinner in Turlock

Group dinner in Turlock

Group dinner after Bowen's thesis defense (4/25/2023)

Zoom group meetings (WFH mode)

Zoom group meetings (WFH mode)

Work from home, and be more productive! (1/28/2021)

Arts and Computational Sciences (ACS)

Arts and Computational Sciences (ACS)

This is where our offices locate 😎

Current group members

Current group members

From left to right, Liang Shi, Bowen Han, Hanbo Hong, Yue Yu, Shao-Yu Lu (1/9/2020)

Barbeque on a typical CA day

Barbeque on a typical CA day

Enjoy the beautiful California weather ☀️

News

  • February 2024: Gunnar joins the group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!

  • July 2023: Bowen is joining the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) as a postdoc. Wish you all the best!

  • May 2023: Matthew graduated with his bachelor's degree in Chemistry!

  • May 2023: Hanbo received the AY 2022-2023 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry!

  • April 2023: Bowen successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Dr. Han is the first PhD from the group.

  • April 2023: Kat was selected to attend the 4th i-CoMSE Summer School this summer!

  • March 2023: Kat received 2023 CCB Summer Research fellowship!

  • February 2023: Kat joins the group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!

  • October 2022: Matthew is selected to participate in the Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP)!

  • June 2022: Hanbo is teaching CHEM 2 as the instructor of record this summer!

  • June 2022: Bowen received the Graduate Dean Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2022!

  • May 2022: Bowen is doing a summer internship at LANL!

  • December 2021: Jacqueline graduated with her bachelor's degree in Chemistry!

  • November 2021: Yue started her new position at UCM as our Senior Research Computing Facilitator!

  • June 2021: Hanbo was selected as the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Teaching Fellow for Fall 2021!

  • June 2021: Hanbo and Bowen were selected to attend the 2021 Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry!

  • June 2021: Hanbo was selected to attend the Excited States and Nonadiabatic Dynamics CyberTraining Workshop 2021!

  • June 2021: Bowen received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his JCTC paper!

  • May 2021: Hanbo received Graduate Division's 2020-2021 Outstanding Teaching Award!

  • May 2021: Daniel and Gabriel graduated with their bachelor's degrees from UCM!

  • April 2021: Jacqueline is selected to participate in the CAMP undergraduate research program!

  • March 2021: Hanbo received 2021 CCB Summer Research fellowship!

  • February 2021: Hanbo received the GSA travel award for cycle 02/2021~05/2021!

  • November 2020: Jacqueline is selected to participate in a 2020-21 Student Success Internship project!

  • September 2020: Bowen received the Southern California Edison Fellowship!

  • July 2020: Hanbo and Bowen have passed their qualifying exams, becoming PhD candidates!

  • May 2020: Daniel Benito Valenzuela Cahua will work on organic semicondcutors, Jacqueline Leon on proteins, and Gabriel Zepeda on electronic spectroscopy. Welcome!

  • May 2020: Yue has been selected to attend the American Chemical Society’s 2020 Postdoc to Faculty (P2F) Workshop!

  • May 2020: Wendy and Nhu successfully completed their B.S. in Chemistry!

  • April 2020: Hanbo received 2020 CCB Summer Research fellowship!