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CRF Researcher Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship from ORISE
Post, February 9, 2026 • Pieterjan Robbe received recognition as an outstanding mentor on the ORISE (Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education) website in celebration of National Mentoring Month (January 2026). Pieterjan was nominated by his former SCGSR grad student intern, Aleksei Sorokin, who summarized, “Dr. Pieterjan Robbe was my collaborating scientist and mentor...
Pieterjan looking off in the distance smiling

David Chandler Awarded Herschbach Medal
Post, December 3, 2025 • David W. Chandler was awarded the Dudley Herschbach Medal at the XXIX Dynamics Of Molecular Collisions meeting in Snowbird Utah, July 6-11, 2025. The medal, named for Professor Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University), who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986, recognizes “bold and architectural work, inspiring and empowering” in...

Improving understanding of advanced Light-Emitting Materials
Post, December 3, 2025 • Laura McCaslin, CRF postdocs Varun Rishi and Ali Abou Taka and Hrant Hratchian (UC Merced), published a paper in "The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters" on "Quantifying Design Principles for Light-Emitting Materials with Inverted Singlet–Triplet Energy Gaps." Most organic light-emitting materials lose efficiency because 75% of excitons are non-emissive triplets....

Judit Zádor awarded a Gauss Professorship
Post, February 4, 2026 • Judit Zádor (DMTS 8353) was awarded a Gauss Professorship by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in Lower Saxony. The Gauss Professorship, established on the 100th anniversary of Carl Friedrich Gauss’ death, offers outstanding scientists from outside Germany the opportunity to temporarily, and in a sense symbolically, occupy the chair of...

Judit Zádor Elected Fellow of The Combustion Institute
Post, March 5, 2024 • Judit Zádor (8353), a physical chemist, has been elected a 2024 Fellow of The Combustion Institute “for exceptional contributions in theoretical chemical kinetics and innovations in approaches for automating quantum chemical calculations.” The lifetime honorific title of Fellow is a testament to active participation in the combustion field through publications...
Judit Zador

Nils Hansen Receives Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal
Post, June 24, 2024 • Nils Hansen, a physical chemist, has been chosen to receive the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal and deliver the Jost memorial lectures, awarded by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities with guidance from the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry. This award is given to an internationally acclaimed physical chemist...
Nils Hansen, a physical chemist, working

Paul Miles honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Post, December 17, 2025 • For more than 30 years, Paul Miles has driven breakthroughs in engine-combustion research at Sandia National Laboratories; in recognition of his transformative contributions, he has been honored with the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Lifetime Achievement Award. Paul’s honor is the culmination of decades of conducting and supervising research projects funded...

Sandia National Laboratories Honors David Osborn’s Remarkable Career in Chemical Physics
Post, February 20, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories recently hosted a one-day “Colloquium on Chemical Dynamics” to celebrate the extraordinary career of David Osborn, a distinguished physical chemist in the Combustion Research Facility. The event brought together 70 colleagues, collaborators, and friends—including several who traveled from Europe—to honor David’s scientific contributions, leadership, and lasting impact...

Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model
Post, November 25, 2025 • CRF researchers, along with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, Southeast University Nanjing, Columbia University, Polytecnico Milano, Brown University, Baylor University, and the Technical University of Denmark, have developed a theory-informed kinetics model (ThInK) for the small molecule chemistry (H2 and C1 – C3 species) that forms...

Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal
Post, September 17, 2025 • Tim Zwier, was awarded the Miguel Catalán Medal at the XVIII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics, July 21-24, 2025 in Vigo, Spain The medal, named for Prof. Miguel Catalán (1894-1957), honors a scientist for exceptional contributions and research record in the field of Atomic and Molecular Physics....