Recent News from the Su Lab: 

November 2024

• Melissa Zamora joins the lab as a graduate student!

October 2024

• Kemi Dawodu joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Kemi!

September 2024

• Ashley and Lan’s paper on the single-molecule conductance of staffanes is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie!

• Jacob and Grace give excellent poster presentations at SoCal Organometallics at UCSD.

• Tim Jr. and Matt defend their theses and graduate. We will miss you both and your pioneering contributions to the lab.


August 2024

• Grace wins an Outstanding Poster Award for her presentation at the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium!

• Nhien attends the 3M Rise Conference.


July 2024

• Ashley gives a poster presentation on her work on quantum interference in silicon diamondoids at the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Research Seminar and Conference.

• Tim is named to the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Early Career Advisory Board. Read more about it here.

• Tim gives talks at the 45th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry and Cottrell Scholars Conference.

• Holly Lusk joins the lab as a new graduate student. Welcome Holly!


June 2024

• Our trio of senior undergrads, Aracely Gonzalez, Lamia Haque, and Mack Durham graduate from UCR and head to new institutions for their Ph.D. studies in Chemistry: Aracely is going to Columbia University, Lamia is going to UC San Diego, and Mack is going to UCLA. We will miss you all very much!

• Tim Jr receives the 2024 Chemistry Alumni Award!

• Matt receives the 2024 Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award!

• Imex is selected to give a talk at the Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar in Newport, RI, and gives a poster presentation at the corresponding GRC.


May 2024

• Imex and Jacob both give poster presentations at the International Symposium on Main-group-element Chemistry (ISMEC) in Tsukuba, Japan, and oral presentations at the 20th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry (ISOS) in Hiroshima, Japan. Tim gives invited talks at both conferences.

• Imex wins the BCSJ Award for his poster presentation at ISMEC!

• Aracely, Grace, Mack and Lamia give presentations at the UC Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• Matt and Tim’s review article “Opportunities in Main Group Molecular Electronics” is published in Trends in Chemistry as part of the ‘Emerging Leaders in Chemistry’ special issue.

• Ashley wins an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!

April 2024

• Lan gives a poster presentation at the Amgen Graduate Research Symposium.

March 2024

• Mack is selected to receive UCR’s ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award! This award is designed to highlight undergraduates who have performed excellently in research and/or classwork in Inorganic Chemistry.

• Matt and Ashley give oral presentations at the “Physical Chemistry of Molecular Electronics” symposium at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans.

• Ashley gives an oral presentation at the UC Chemical Symposium.


February 2024

• Tim is named a 2024 Cottrell Scholar! Read more about the award here.

• Matt’s paper on London dispersion interactions in carbosilane backbones is published in JACS!


January 2024

• Jancrizto Ruidas and Roger Teng join the lab as undergraduate researchers.


November 2023

• The group receives an NSF CAREER award! This grant provides five years of support to investigate new concepts in molecular silicon electronics. Read more about it here.


October 2023

• Fernando Alfaro joins the lab as a grad student!


September 2023

• Imex’s paper on SiGe adamantanes is published in JACS! The article is featured in JACS Spotlights.


August 2023

• Mack, Nhien, and Aracely give oral and poster presentations at the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. 

• Grace gives an oral presentation at the UCR CNAS Scholars Symposium to wrap up her summer research.

• Jess finishes the summer off by giving a poster presentation at the MacREU symposium.


June-July 2023

• Jess Hernandez joins our lab as a summer MacREU student.

• Amren Saran joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

• Fernando Alfaro joins our lab for a summer rotation.

• Aracely is awarded an ACS Bridge Travel Award to support her poster presentation at the National ACS Meeting in San Francisco.

• Mack is awarded a DIC Travel Award and a UCR Student Travel Mini-Grant to support his oral presentation at the ACS Meeting in San Francisco.

• Grace is recognized as a CNAS Scholar, which will support her research in the lab this summer.

• Imex and Ashley give oral presentations at the SoCal Organometallics Symposium.

• Tim Sr. gives a talk at the 10th European Silicon Days Conference in Montpellier, France.

• Lan is selected to give an oral presentation at the 2023 Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors GRS. She gives a poster presentation at the associated GRC.


May 2023

• Nhien is selected to attend the 2023 BASF North American Research Forum. She and her team are awarded first prize there for their presentation.

• Matt and Ashley give oral presentations at the UC Chemical Symposium. Ashley wins award for “best flash talk”.

• Tim Jr. wins an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

• Ashley passes her oral examination and advances to Ph.D. candidacy.

• Aracely gives a poster presentation at the UCR Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• Aracely is selected for the prestigious Chancellor’s Research Fellowship Award!

• Josh is selected as the sole recipient of the CNAS Academic Excellence Award in Biochemistry.


April 2023

• Josh, Miku, and Isabelle graduate from UCR, and the lab goes bowling to say farewell. We will miss you all!

• Josh and Miku decide they will both attend Cornell University next Fall to pursue their Ph.D. in Chemistry.

• Tim Jr. is selected as one of four recipients across the university for the highly competitive Yvonne Danielson Endowed Graduate Award.

• Tim Jr. wins an Advancing Faculty Diversity award.

• The lab welcomes a new undergraduate researcher, Grace Wang. Grace has also been selected as a RISE Scholar, which will support her summer research in the lab.


March 2023

• Miku is selected as UCR’s recipient of the ACS Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry.

• Isabelle completes a terrific honors thesis.


January 2023

• Shali Thai and Sam Mau join the lab as undergraduate researchers.



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