Group members
Lyudmila Slipchenko
Professor
office: WTHR 265H
phone: (765) 494-5255
email: lslipchenko @ purdue . edu
Research questions: how do molecules interact?
Fun fact: worried about Schrodinger cat…
Andres Urbina
Postdoctoral Staff
Suranjan Paul
Postdoctoral Staff
Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Suranjan completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Ohio State University in December 2022. During this time, he worked on the development and application of continuum solvation models. He joined the lab in February 2023. He is currently working on integration of Pytorch with effective fragment potential library to establish the ML/EFP scheme.
Email: paulsk@purdue.edu
Fun fact: I love Football, Cricket and Chess
Jack Lawrence
Graduate Student
Shahed Haghiri
Graduate Student
Isaac Ofori
Graduate Student
Isaac completed a BSc. Chemistry from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. During this time he studied the mechanism of selected organic reactions focusing on the origin of unique reactivity and selectivity. Isaac joined the lab in August 2022. He is currently studying vibronic interactions in photosynthetic complexes. His work revolves around using QM/MM and QM/EFP techniques to understand this dynamics in photosytems.
Email: iofori@purdue.edu
Fun fact: I love geopolitics and witty debates in that line**
Satarupa Gupta
Graduate Student
Satarupa completed her undergrad from Jadavpur University, India, and her Masters in Chemistry from IIT Bhubaneswar, India. During her masters, she worked on a Python code to simulate photodissociation dynamics of the Criegee Intermediate using a Gaussian wave packet approach. She joined Purdue in Fall 2022. In the Slipchenko group, Satarupa works on developing computationally tractable approaches to accurately predict crystal lattice energies. The aim is to generate a crystal structure prediction (CSP) model which helps predict the correct crystal structure that a molecule has under ambient condition, which is one of the fundamentally challenging problems in the natural sciences.
Luisa M. Scandoval C.
Graduate Student
Michael Eyeson
Graduate Student
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, KNUST Ghana. Undergraduate research was focused on investigating the reaction pathway of organometallic compounds to aid synthesize carbohydrates. Currently, Michael’s Graduate research is focused on spectral prediction of Water Soluble Chlorophyll Proteins (WSCP) and also investigating the interaction between drug molecules and proteins in a biological system.
Email: meyeson@purdue.edu
Fun fact:
Richmond Arhin
Graduate Student
Richmond received his BSc in Chemistry from KNUST, Ghana. In Ghana, he worked on DFT calculations on small but pharmacologically relevant organic molecules, and explored theoretical insights into reaction mechanisms and selectivities. Currently, Richmond is involved with developing an optimised workflow for the computational mutagenesis pipeline with the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) pigment protein complex.
Email: rarhin@purdue.edu
Fun fact: Your morning coffee has over 1,000 chemical compounds, many of which are still being studied. It’s a brew of science!
Osama Abuhammad
Graduate Student
Bsc in Chemistry, First of class | Jordan University of Science and Technology | Jordan
Email: oabuhamm@purdue.edu
Research Interest: My research in computational physical chemistry utilizes quantum chemistry methods to investigate the protective mechanisms of photosynthetic proteins during photosynthesis.
Fun fact: I love the math that makes quantum chemistry tick!
Shameera Udesh
Graduate Student
BSc(Hons) in Computational Chemistry | University of Colombo | Sri Lanka.
Email: sbadalge@purdue.edu
Research interest: I am passionate about advancing method development in computational chemistry, with a particular focus on applications in computational polymer chemistry.
Fun fact: I may not perform on stage, but I’m a karaoke champ in my living room!
Madison Mercer
Undergraduate Researcher
Wyatt Kenyon
Undergraduate Researcher
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