Linic Lab News
May 22
Congratulations to Chenggong Jiang and Bill Yan on passing their Thesis Proposal Exam with excellent standing! ππ
May 15
Congratulations to our first-year students Clare Martin, Jordana Mazer, Ben Walls, and Jeanne Zhang for passing their Doctoral Candidacy Exam! ππ
May 8
Congratulations to Aarti Mathur for receiving the outstanding student oral presentation award in the annual MCS symposium! ππ
May 2
We celebrated the graduation of James Wortman at Hopcat tonight. π₯
Apr 24
Congratulations to Charles Zhao on passing his Thesis Proposal Exam! ππ
March 27
Congradulations to Aarti Mathur for receiving the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! ππ
March 21
Our work on propane dehydrogenation by Rawan Almallahi and James Wortman is featured on Science! ππ
March 14
Congratulations to James Wortman for passing his thesis defense today! It was our pleasure having you in the lab, wish you the best in your future career! ππ
March 4
Had a great lab dinner at Hot Pot Chen. Thank you to Shawn Lu for recommending this place and making the awesome menu selection! π₯π²
November 18
Shout out to Shawn Lu for hosting the Friendsgiving dinner this year! And thank you to everyone for bringing amazing dishes, let's keep this the top-notch lab social event in the entire department! β
October 23
We are thrilled to welcome to our new first-year students Clare Martin, Jordana Mazer, Ben Walls and Jeanne Zhang ππ
October 12
Take a look at our latest publication on membrane-reactor for oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) by James Wortman:
Optimizing hierarchical membrane/catalyst systems for oxidative coupling of methane using additive manufacturing
π π
May 18
Congratulations to Ahmet Sert on passing his Thesis Proposal Exam with excellent standing! ππ
May 17
Congratulations to our first-year students Chenggong Jiang and Bill Yan for passing their Doctoral Candidacy Exam! Special congrats to Bill for passing with distinctionππ
March 22
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Elias for passing her PhD defense! ππ
January 17
Congratulations to Dr. Rawan Almallahi for passing her PhD defense! ππ
November 19
Thank you to Shawn Lu for organizing the lab Friendsgiving dinner! And thanks to all the
great lab chefs who cooked!
October 24
Read our latest publication on the mechanism of plasmonic catalysis by Rachel Elias:
Elucidating the Roles of Local and Nonlocal Rate Enhancement Mechanisms in Plasmonic Catalysis
October 10
Welcome to our new first-year students Chenggong Jiang and Bill Yan ππ
October 5
Congratulations to Rawan Almallahi on receiving first place oral presentation award π₯ at
the 43rd Annual
Fall Symposium of the Michigan Catalysis Society!
September 28
Congratulations to Aarti Mathur on receiving first place π₯ in the 2022 Chemical
Engineering Department
Symposium poster competition!
September 11
Congratulations to Professor Suljo Linic for receiving the 2023 Gabor A. Somorjai Award
for Creative Research
in Catalysis>! ππ
August 19
Congratulations to Dr. Jacques Esterhuizen for passing his PhD defense! ππ
May 31
Congratulations to Shiuan-Bai Ann and Han-Ting Chen on passing their Thesis
Proposal Exam! ππ
May 18
Congratulations to Ahmet Sert and Jianchao (Charles) Zhao on passing their
Doctoral Candidacy Exam! ππ
May 11
Congratulations to Claire Yin on passing her Thesis Proposal Exam! ππ
April 4
Congratulations to Jacques Esterhuizen for receiving the Richard F. & Eleanor A. Towner
Prize for
Distinguished Academic Achievement! ππ
April 4
Congratulations to Jianchao (Charles) Zhao for receiving an NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship! ππ
January 13
Congratulations to Dr. Steven Chavez for passing his PhD defense! ππ
November 16
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Dix for passing his PhD defense! ππ
October 15
Welcome to new first-year students Jianchao (Charles) Zhao and Ahmet Sert! ππ
August 2
Congratulations to Dr. John Hemmerling for passing his PhD defense! ππ
June 4
Congratulations to Aarti Mathur and Shawn Lu on passing their Thesis Proposal
Exam! ππ
May 19
Congratulations to Shiuan-Bai Ann, Han-Ting Chen, and Claire Yin on
passing their Doctoral Candidacy Exam! ππ
Mar. 29
Congratulations to Aarti Mathur on receiving the National Defence Science and Engineering
Graduate
Fellowship for 2021! ππ
Mar. 23
Congratulations to Aarti Mathur and Shawn Lu for receiving the NSF Graduate
Research Fellowship for 2021! ππ
Oct. 15
Welcome to new first-year students Shiuan-Bai Ann, Han-Ting Chen, and Claire
Yin! ππ
Sept. 28
Welcome to our new postdoc Dongho Lee and new student Yi Zhang! ππ
May 27
Congratulations to James Wortman for passing his preliminary exam! ππ
May 20
Congratulations to Shawn Lu and Aarti Mathur for passing their Doctoral Candidacy
Exam with Shawn passing with
distinction! ππ
March 30
Congratulations to Professor Suljo Linic for his appointment to the Martin Lewis Perl
Collegiate
Professor in Chemical Engineering! ππ! ππ
March 4
Congratulations to Steven Chavez for receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! ππ
January 13
Congratulations to Dr. Valentina Igenegbai for passing her PhD defense! ππ
December 11
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Quinn for passing his PhD defense! ππ
October 24
Congratulations to Rachel Elias for passing her preliminary exam! ππ
October 17
We are excited to announce two new PhD students joining the group Shawn Lu and Aarti
Mathur! ππ
September 3
Welcome to our new postdoc Jinxun Liu! ππ
June 23-28
The Linic Lab journeyed to Chicago to attend the 26th biennial North American Catalysis Society
meeting
where group members delivered 3 oral talks and 3 poster presentations. Check the highlights out on
our
twitter page! ππ
June 13
Congratulations to Rawan Almallahi for passing her preliminary exam! ππ
May 15
Special congratulations to James Wortman for passing his Doctoral Candidacy Exam with the
top
distinction for his class! ππ
May 13
Congratulations to Jacques Esterhuizen for passing his preliminary exam! ππ
May 7
Congratulations to our own Steven Chavez for winning best Oral Presentation and being
elected Student
Representative at the 40th annual Spring Meeting of the Michigan Catalysis Society! ππ
April 9
Congratulations to James Wortman for recieving an honorable mention from the NSF Graduate
Research
Fellowship Program! ππ
April 4
Valentina Igenegbai has been elected Graduate Student Director for the AIChE CRE division!
ππ
January 21
We are happy to welcome our new postdoc, Ali Hussain Motagamwala, from Wisconsin! ππ
October 17
Welcome to our new 1st-year lab members James Wortman! ππ
September 20
Congratulations to Steven Chavez for winning best Oral Presentation at the 7th annual
University of
Michigan Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium! ππ
May 16
Congratulations to Rawan Almallahi, Rachel Elias, and Jacques Esterhuizen
for passing the Doctoral Candidacy Exam. Special congradulations to Jacques Esterhuizen for
achieving the top distiction of the 1st year class! ππ
May 4
Congratulations to Sean Dix for passing their preliminary exam! ππ
May 2
Congratulations to John Hemmerling for passing their preliminary exam! ππ
April 9
Congratulations to Rachel Elias for recieving an honorable mention from the NSF Graduate
Research
Fellowship Program! ππ
February 23
Congratulations to Valentina Igenegbai for winning the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Award! ππ
November 10
Congratulations to Steven Chavez for placing 3rd in the poster presentation contest at the
12th Annual Engineering Graduate Symposium at U of M! ππ
November 3
Umar Aslam, Steven Chavez, Valentina Igenegbai, and Joe Quinn
return from the annual American Institute of Chemical Engineering meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota
where they all presented talks.
October 16
The Linic Lab is excited to announce three new PhD students joining the group: Rawan
Almallahi, Rachel Elias, and Jacques Esterhuizen! ππ
August 28
Professor Suljo Linic heads to Dalian, China for The 2017 Chemical Sciences and Society
Summit (CS3). The CS3 series
is hosted by funding agencies and chemical societies in the US, Germany, China, Japan, and the UK.
Professor Linic will be chairing the US delegation at this year's meeting focused on Solar Energy &
Photonics for a Sustainable Future.
August 1
Professor Suljo Linic has been named an Associate Chair for the University of Michigan
Chemical Engineering
Department! ππ
May 17
Congratulations to Sean Dix and John Hemmerling for passing their Doctoral
Candidacy Exams! ππ
May 15
Congratulations to Steven Chavez for passing his preliminary exam! ππ
May 11
Congratulations to Umar Aslam and Valentina Igenegbai for winning the first place
prize for best oral presentation and
third place prize for best poster presentation at this year's annual Chemical Engineering Graduate
Symposium! ππ
May 10
John Hemmerling has been awarded the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate
Fellowship! ππ
Congratulations John! ππ
May 2
Congratulations to Umar Aslam for winning the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at
this years
annual Michigan Catalysis Society Symposium! ππ
March 21
Sean Dix has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!
ππ Congratulations
Sean! ππ
February 6
The Linic Lab would like to welcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow Vishal Govind Rao to the
group! ππ
January 16
Congratulations to Umar Aslam for receiving the Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic
Achievement! ππ
This award is presented to the outstanding graduate student in each degree program by the University
of
Michigan College of Engineering.
January 20
Congratulations to Paul Hernley for successfully defending his thesis today! ππ