April 21, 2016
Shaohong Li received the 2016 Overend Award for Graduate Research in Physical Chemistry from Professor Aaron Massari today before the Moscowitz Lecture by Georg Kresse of the University of Vienna. This award is given annually to recognize an outstanding graduate student researcher in our department. Recent recipients of this award in the Truhlar group are
2016 Shaohong Li
2011 Hannah Leverentz
2010 Bo Wang
2006 Erin Dahlke
2003 Jingzhi Pu and Jason Thompson
2001 Ahren Jasper
1999 Michael D. Hack
1997 Yao-Yuan Chuang (Wertz Award)
1994 Wei-Ping Hu
1993 Steven Mielke (Wertz Award)
1992 Yi-Ping Liu
Shaohong was honored for work on a variety of projects, including:
- configuration-interaction-corrected Tamm-Dancoff Approximation (read more) for using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to predict conical intersections with the correct dimensionality
- TDDFT with Exchange-Enhancement-for-Large-Gradient (read more) to make TDDFT give accurate Rydberg excitations
- model-space diabatization for quantum photochemistry (read more)
- electronic spectrum of thioanisole (read more)
- nonintuitive nature of diabatic states for thioanisole photochemistry (read more)
- 42-dimensional potential surfaces and state couplings for thioanisole photodissociation (work in progress)
Congratulations Shaohong!