Many of us in Molecular Geochemistry participated to the Gaussian
workshop at HPC2N on May 14-15!

Molecular Geochemistry at Umeå University
connecting atoms with mountains
PECA collaboration with JF Boily and Thomas Wågberg (Physics, Umeå University),
with lead author Alagappan Annamalai. Paper here

Merve Yesilbas defended her Ph.D. thesis on April 13 th.

from left to right: Staffan Sjöberg, Jan Pettersson (Gothenburg University), JF Boily, Merve Yesilbas, Grégory Lefèvre (CNRS-Paris)
Check out link here: Yesilbas Press Release
Merve
nailed her Ph.D. Thesis “Thin Water and Films on Minerals: A Molecular Level Study” on March 23rd.
She will defend her thesis on April 13th at Umeå University (info here).
Opponent: Grégory Lefèvre (Chime ParisTech)
Evaluation Committee: Stina Jansson (Chemistry, UmU), Jan Pettersson (University of Gothenburg), Alexandr Talyzin (Physics, UmU)
Wei is a visiting Ph.D student from Khalil Hanna‘s group (Rennes).
During her 6-month stay, she will be studying water vapour binding on
organically-coated minerals with JF Boily.
A collaboration with Changxun Xu and Mats Åström of Linnaeus University with JF Boily and Andrey Shchukarev
You can find the article here

Authored by Merve Yesilbas, Cheng Choo (Nikki) Lee, and Jean-François Boily
We thank the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) for a great collaboration!
You can find the link here.

A collaboration between JF Boily and Glenn Waychunas (LBNL). Paper is here!

A collaboration with JF Boily and M Zhu (U of Wyoming), X. Feng (Huazhong Agricultural University), Y. Hu (Canadian Light Source), G. Waychunas (LBNL), J. Kubicki (University of Texas) and X. Wang (U of Wyoming).
Find the paper here
