Current Research Group
Alex Brown
Department of Chemistry University of Alberta
Brown Group Members
Victor Arturo Gomez
PhD Student, Fall 2017-Present
Shyam Parshotam
PhD Student, Winter 2018-Present (co-supervised w/ J. Gibbs)
Antoine Aerts
PhD Student, Fall 2018-Present (co-supervised w/ Nathalie Vaeck, ULB)
Ryan Johannson
MSc Student, Fall 2019-Present
Hannah Dokken
Undergraduate Research Student, Summer 2020
Graduate Student Alumni
Zhibo Wang
MSc, Fall 2017-Summer 2019
Dr. Melis Gedik
PhD, Winter 2012-Summer 2017
Thesis: Quantum Chemical Investigations of Structural and Photophysical Properties of Emissive RNA Nucleobase Analogues
Dr. M. Alaraby Salem
PhD, Fall 2011-Summer 2016
Thesis: Computational Study of Two Photon Absorption in Fluorescent Protein Chromophores
Dr. Ekadashi Pradhan
PhD, Fall 2010-Winter 2015
Thesis: Potential Energy Surfaces for Quantum Dynamics Simulations: From ab initio Computations to Vibrational State Determinations
Dr. Mohammed Momeni
PhD, Summer 2012-Summer 2015
Thesis: Computational Investigations on Excited State Properties of Cyanine Dyes and Carbene-bound Main Group Elements
Dr. Shuai Sun
PhD, Fall 2009 - Winter 2015
Thesis: Simulation of the Resonance Raman Spectra For Uracil and its Derivatives
Dr. Stephanie Wong
PhD, Fall 2006-Fall 2013 (co-supervised w/ P.N. Roy)
Thesis: AB INITIO SEMICLASSICAL INITIAL VALUE REPRESENTATION: DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODS
Dr. Ryan Zaari
PhD, Winter 2007-Summer 2012
Thesis: Towards Molecular Quantum Computing: Laser Pulse Shap-ing of Quantum Logic Gates on Diatomic Molecules
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Pierre Gachod
Undergraduate Research Intern (U.Toulouse, France) , Feb.-June, 2020
Megan Joy
WISEST Student, Summer 2019
Kwami Aku-Dominguez
NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2019
Maryna Mondrusova
MITACS Globallink Intern, Summer 2019
Cissy Xu
CHEM 401 Student, Winter 2019
Yidan Xing
CHEM 401 Student, Winter 2019
Xueting Ni
CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2018
Christian Ritterhof
MITACS-globalink Intern (Erlangen, Germany), Summer 2018
Jacob Wood
UARE Visiting International Interns (Leeds, UK), Summer 2018
Gaetan Herce
International Visiting Intern (U. Paris-Sud), Summer 2018
Kwami Aku-Dominguez
NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2018
Anabelle Jones
Lab Volunteer, Fall 2017
Chao Zhang
CHEM 399 Student, Fall 2017
Lou-ann de Goeij
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2017-Winter 2018
Andrew Wiedemann
CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2017
Cat-Tuong Huynh
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2014-Winter 2015; Summer student Summer 2015; Lab Volunteer, Fall 2015-Winter 2016;CHEM 401 StudentWinter 2017
Boyang Zhao
CHEM 401 Student, Winter 2017
Antoine Aerts
Visiting Student Intern (ULB, Belgium), Fall 2016
Meng Wang
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2016-Winter 2017
Chao Zhang
CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2016
Zhibo Wang
CHEM 401/403 Student, Fall 2016/Winter 2017; Summer student, Summer 2017
Tao He
UARE Visiting International student, Summer 2016
Qiming Shen
ISWSP student, Summer 2016
Hanseul Kim
CHEM 401/403 student, Fall 2015-Winter 2016
Tyler Ries
CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2015
Tong Zhang
CHEM 299 Student Fall 2015-Winter 2016; NSERC-USRA, Summer 2016; CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2017
Isaac Twelves
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2015-Winter 2016
Wenyu (Mac) Qian
ISWSP Summer student, Summer 2015
Andrew Jacobsen
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2014-Winter 2015
Evan Antoniuk
NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2014; CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2015
Aliaksandr Savin
NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2014
Christian Dusaban
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2013-Winter 2014
Daniel Stamper
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2013
Lisa Shulman
URI Research Assistant, Fall 2013-Winter 2014
Uchenna Obuekwe
Summer Research Student, Summer 2012
Melis Gedik
Summer Research Student, Summer 2011; Chem 401 student, Fall 2011
Meagan Lyszczyk
NSERC-USRA, Student, Summer 2011
Tran Nguyen
CHEM 401 Student, Winter 2011
Bao Pham
CHEM 401 student, Winter 2011
Marie Barnes
Summer Research Student, Summer 2010
Bryan Faucher
NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2010
Wang Xi
ISWSP Student, Summer 2010
Craig McMullen
CHEM 401 student, Fall 2009
Jacqueline Ngai
ISWSP Student, Summer 2009
Kaylee Bohaychuk
NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2009
Derek Mah
CHEM 401/403 student, Fall 2008-Winter 2009
Joey Sheff
CHEM 299 student, Fall 2008-Winter 2009
Sherni Koh
CHEM 401 Student, Winter 2008; Summer research student, Summer 2008
Kayla Atkey
CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2007-Winter 2008
Darrel Cotton
Summer research student, Summer 2007
Nikita Blinov
Summer research student, Summer 2007
Kevin Tok
Kevin Tok, CHEM 299 student, Fall 2006
David Jodoin
NSERC-USRA, Summer 2006; CHEM 401 student, Winter 2006; NSERC-USRA, Summer 2005; Part-time research assistant, Fall 2004-Winter 2005
Chen Liang
Summer student, Summer 2006; CHEM 299 Student, Fall 2005-Winter 2006
Ryan Zaari
CHEM 401/403 student, Fall 2005-Winter 2006; Summer research student, Summer 2005
Kyle Greene
Summer research student, Summer 2005
Jesse Kadosh
CHEM 401 Student, Fall 2015; NSERC-USRA Student, Summer 2004
Hariyanto Darmawan
Summer research student, Summer 2004
Post-Doctoral and Visiting Professor Alumni
Ali Ilkhani
Visiting Professor, Summer 2017-Summer 2019
Guo-Liang Dai
Visiting Professor, January 2018 - December 2018
Yusuf Simsek
TUBITAK Post-Doctoral Fellow, 06/2016-01/2018
Inara de Aguiar
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 07/2014-06/2016 (co-supervised with G.L.C de Souza, UFMT, Brazil)
Gabriel de Souza
CAPES Post-Doctoral Fellow, 08/2013-07/2014
Meiyu Zhao
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 05/2009-04/2010
Jose-Luis Carreon-Macedo
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 12/2006-01/2010
Javier Cuervo
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 09/2008-08/2009
Markus Schröder
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 01/2007-04/2009
Qadir Timerghazin
Alberta Ingenuity Post-doctoral Fellow, 01/2007-12/2008
Taiwang Cheng
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 01/2004-06/2006
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