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Graduate Students

Rachel Al-Saadon Research: Computer Simulations of Enzymes More info
Chen Li Research: Reformulating TDDFT equations to achieve nonorthogonal locialized orbitals as time evolves
Degao Peng Project: Development and applications of Density functional methods and large systems More Info
Zackary Scholl Project: Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and steered molecular dynamics (SMD) to understand co-translational protein folding More Info
Pan Wu Project: Vectorial Folding of Proteins and Polypeptide Chains in AFM and Computer Simulations More Info
Yang Yang Project: Random Phase Approximation
Du Zhang Project: Electronic excitation energy calculation with linear-response TDDFT catalytic water oxidation by transition metal coordination compounds

PRIOR PROFESSORS / POST-DOCS / STUDENTS
Paul Ayers, Ph.D.	Research Fellow left in 2002	Professor, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Ontario
Amy Boone (More info)	Joint appointment with UNC, Research Associate 2001-2004	Currently being a stay-at- home mother with four young children whom she is home schooling
Felipe Bulat, Ph.D. More Info.	Research Associate 2003-2008	Blumberg Financial Group
Steven Burger (More Info.)	Graduate Student 2002- 2007	Fellowship Research Associate with Paul Ayers, University of Toronto
Robin Chaudret (More Info.)	Postdoctoral Associate 2011-2012	Postdoc at French Institute for Petroleum and New Energies
Andres Cisneros (More Info.)	Graduate Student Ph.D. 2004	Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Aron Cohen, Ph.D. More Info	Research Associate 2003 -2008	Royal Society University Research Fellow at Cambridge in United Kingdom
Julia Conteras-Garcia More Info	Research Associate 2008 -2011	Becaria Postdoc Ministerio de Educacion Espanol Proxima Incorporacion, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Spanish Ministry of Education Postdoctoral Associate)
Rogelio Cuevas-Saavedra, Ph.D. More Info	Research Scholar 2011-2012	Postdoctoral Fellow Viktor Staroverov group, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Ganglong Cui, PhD More Info	Visiting Scholar/ Postdoctoral Associate 2007-2011	Postdoctoral Associate Max Planck Institute Mulheim, Germany
Freija De Vleeschouwer	Visiting Scholar Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO) Sept.-Dec. 2011	Postdoctoral Associate, Vrije Universiteit BrusselBrussels, Belgium
Fernanda Duarte, More Info	Fullbright Scholar/Graduate student from Chile Oct. 2010-July 2011	Graduate Student in Chemistry, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
Xiaoli Fan, Visiting Research Scholar More Info	March 2011 Left March 2012	Professor, Northwestern Polytchnical University, Shaanxi, PR China
Kazuhiro Fujimoto, PhD (More Info)	Postdoctoral Associate Left in 2007	Post doc with Prof. Shigeki Kato, Dept. of Chemistry, Graduate Sch. of Science Kyoto University, Japan
Marco Gallo, PhD, More Info	Visiting Professor July-Aug. 2011	Professor in School of Chemistry AutonomousUniversity of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Tim Heaton-Burgess, PhD More Info	Graduate Student to Postdoctoral Associate, Left March 2012	New Zealand
Jiang Hong (More Info.)	2004	Beijing
Takumi Hori More Info	Left in 2006	Nippon Steel, Japan
Hao Hu, PhD., Research Scientist More Info	Postdoc 2003 to Assitant Research Professor Left March 2012	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry University of Hong Kong
Xiangqian Hu, PhD More Info	Started 2002 Visiting Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Assoc., then Research Scientist Left April 2012	Software Developer, SAS Institute, Cary, NC
Erin Johnson, Ph.D. More Info	Postdoctoral Associate 2008- 2010	Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced
San-Huang Ke, Ph.D. More Info	Assistant Research Professor Left Jan. 2010	Professor Physics Dept. Tongji University Shanghai, China
Shahar Keinan , Ph.D. More Info	Postdoctoral Associate Left August 2011	Research Scientist, EFRC Center UNC, Chapel Hill
Tai-sung Lee No photo available	1997	Accelyrs, Inc.
Bin Li , Ph.D. More Info.	Postdoctoral Associate Left 2006	Hefei NaReseational Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, China
Yi Li More Info	Graduate Student Left July 2008	Transferred to Mathematics Dept. at Duke to continue PhD studies
Qiubao Lin, PhD. More Info	Visiting Scholar Left Jan. 2011	Associate Professor School of Science, Jimei University
Xiangsong Lin	Visiting Scholar Left Jan. 2011	Graduate student Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Univ. of Science and Technology
Rui Liu More Info.	Graduate Student 2003- 2006
Zhenyu Lu More Info.	Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Assocaite Left 2006	Research Associate, New York University
Robert Maclagan More Info.	Visiting Professor 2004	University of Canterbury, NZ
Ali Malek More Info	Visiting Scholar March - October, 2012	International lab rotation in Toronto, Canada
Paula Mori -Sanchez More Info	Research Associate 2002-2009	Received Ramon y Cajal Fellowship in Spain; joined Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
Jerry Parks More Info	Graduate Student 2002- 2008	Research Associate Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Center for Molecular Biophysics
Juan Qiao More Info	Visiting Scholar 2006- 2007	Dept. of Chemistry Tsinghua University Beijing, China
Haihong Ni	1995	Unknown
Christopher Rinderspacher , PhD More Info	Research Associate 2007-2009	Army Research Laboratory Baltimore, MD
Zhigang Sun, Ph.D. More Info	Postdoctoral Associate Left December 2010	One Hundred Talents Professor Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Alvaro Trueba-Perez, Ph.D. More info	Visiting Scholar Sept.-Dec. 2009	Universidad de Cantabria Santander, Spain
Yan Alexander Wang, Ph.D. More Info	Research Scholar Oct.-Dec. 2011	Assoc. Professor of Chemistry, University of Bristish Columbia, Vancouver
Mingliang Wang , Ph.D., More Info	Postdoctoral Associate 2003-2005	University of Missouri St. Louis, MO
Weiliang Wang More Info	Visiting Scholar 2011	School of Physics and Engineering, Zhongshan University, China
Qin Wu (More Info.)	Graduate Student 2004	MIT Dept. of Chemistry Cambridge, MA
Ruixue Xu, Ph.D. More Info.	Visiting Professor 2006 - 2007	Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale University of Science and Technology of China
Chin-hui Yu	Visiting Professor Left 2006	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Xiancheng "Fox" Zeng More Info	Grad Student, Postdoctoral Associate 2005-2011	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bo Zhao More Info	Graduate Student Left July 2008	Returned to China with Masters Degree
Yingkai Zhang No photo available	2000	NYU
Xiao Zheng, Ph.D. More Info	Research Scientist 2008-2011	Professor University of Science and Technology China
Tianhai Zhu No photo available	1996	Univ. of Minnesota