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Honorary doctorate for prof. Weckhuysen on Dies Natalis

Friday 29/03/2024

Every year on Dies Natalis, Ghent University awards various honorary doctorates. This year, one of the Honorary doctorates was awarded to prof. Bert Weckhuysen from the Utrecht University for his exceptional scientific achievements in the field of in-situ and operando spectroscopy in the field of heterogeneous catalysis.

Lecture Joe Manning

Thursday 14/03/2024

On Thursday March 14, 2024, dr. Joe Manning from the University of Manchester visited the Center for Molecular Modeling. Aside from the inspiring scientific discussions we had, he also gave a lecture entitled "Digital design of nanomaterial synthesis procedures".

Paper selected within the themed collection ‘Catalysis Science and Technology Most Popular 2023 Articles’

Monday 19/02/2024

During summer 2023 Pieter Cnudde, Michel Waroquier and Veronique Van Speybroeck published a paper on ‘Universal descriptors for zeolite topology and acidity to predict the stability of butene cracking intermediates’ in Catalysis Science and Technology.

Lecture Michael Fischer

Thursday 18/01/2024

On Thursday January 18, 2024, dr. Michael Fischer from the University of Bremen visited the Center for Molecular Modeling. Aside from the inspiring scientific discussions we had, he also gave a lecture entitled "Adsorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in zeolites: Insights from atomistic modelling".

Two new PhDs at CMM

Friday 17/11/2023

In the first half of November 2023 two of our PhD students successfully defended their PhD thesis. Underneath you can read a bit more on the work they did at CMM in the past years. Congratulations Sander and YingXing! Sander BorgmansIn-Depth Computational Characterization of the Structure and Dynamics in Covalent Organic Frameworks – Monday November 6, 2023Supervisors: prof.

Picture Dr. Karl Wamsler innovation award November 9, 2023. ©Andreas Heddergott/TUM

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Veronique Van Speybroeck receives the Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award 2023

Tuesday 14/11/2023

Prof. Veronique Van Speybroeck from the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, UGent and head of the Center for Molecular Modeling (http://molmod.ugent.be) was awarded with the Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award 2023 on November 9, 2023. This award, presented by the Technical University of Munich and Clariant Specialty Chemicals, is given in recognition of excellence in the field of catalysis.

psiflow – modular and scalable active learning for interatomic potentials

Thursday 12/10/2023

Recently, we launched psiflow v2.0.0. Psiflow is a modular and scalable library for developing interatomic potentials. It uses Parsl to interface popular trainable interaction potentials with quantum chemistry software, and is designed to support computational workflows on hundreds or thousands of nodes.

Sven Rogge awarded an ERC Starting Grant STRAINSWITCH

Monday 18/09/2023

Sven Rogge has been awarded a Starting Grant 'STRAINSWITCH' by the European Research Council (ERC). With this grant, he is poised to establish his research team at the CMM, with a focus on computational materials modelling.Given enough time, diamonds transform into graphite.

Summer 2023 = 4 CMM PhDs

Tuesday 12/09/2023

During last summer four of our young researchers successfully defended their PhD. Underneath you find an overview of their research topics. Congratulations Michael, Ruben, Liesbeth and Alexander! Michael Freitas GustavoNew tools for high-dimensional, expensive, black-box global optimization functions applied to ReaxFF parameterizations – Thursday June 29th, 2023Supervisor: prof.

Congratulations dr. Massimo Bocus!!

Tuesday 27/06/2023

On Friday June 23rd, 2023 Massimo Bocus successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Towards State-of-the-Art Molecular Simulations for an Accurate Modeling of Intricate Zeolite-Catalyzed reactions’. During his PhD research he was supervised by prof.

Lecture Simon Krause

Thursday 22/06/2023

On Thursday June 22, 2023, dr. Simon Krause from the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research visited the Center for Molecular Modeling. Aside from the inspiring scientific discussions we had, he also gave a lecture entitled "Light, pressure, gas - teaching crystalline sponges new tricks".

Veronique Van Speybroeck gives Hassel lecture 2023

Monday 05/06/2023

With the Hassel lecture, the Department of Chemistry from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Chemical Society (Norsk Kjemisk Selskap, NKS) highlight innovative research by a distinguished invited lecturer.

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