Odoh Research Group
Principal Investigator
Odoh Samuel O.
CAREER
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 07/2016-date
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 09/2013-06/2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 01/2013-09/2013
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 06/2009-12/2012
M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada 01/2005-12/2006
B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 09/2000-09/2004
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AWARDS AND HONORS
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National Science Foundation Award # 18000387 ($399,999). 2018-2022
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University Research Opportunities (UROP) Award for Dillon Stetler. 2019-2020
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University Research Opportunities (UROP) Award for Shaina Bird. 2017-2018
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Honors Undergraduate Research Award (HURA) for Janel Reed. 2017-2018
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Invited Summer Intern 2011
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Seaborg Summer Research Fellow, Seaborg Institute, LANL, NM, USA. 2010
Graduate Students
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Dipak Panthi
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Kevin Curtis
Enrolled in chemical physics PhD. Performs research in materials suitable for the collection and sorting of actinide elements. Current work involves collection of uranyl from seawater using proteins and automizing parameterization of exchange-correlation energy by using Monte Carlo methods.
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Publications:
K. Curtis, D. Panthi and S. O. Odoh. A time-dependent DFT study of copper (II) oxo active sites for methane-to-methanol conversion in zeolites. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 1149.
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Education:
B.S. in Chemistry
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Olabisi Suleiman
I joined the Odoh research group in 2018 to pursue my PhD in Chemistry after years of leaving school. It is quite fun and challenging working with amazing people within the group. As a computational chemistry student, my major interest is using quantum mechanical methods to study the conversion of methane to methanol as well as for modelling the electronic structure properties of large systems.
Email: osuleiman@unr.edu
Education:
B.Sc/Ed Chemistry (Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye. Ogun State, Nigeria)
M.Sc Chemistry (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
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Olajumoke Adeyiga
Joined the research group in 2017, enrolled in Chemistry (PhD program). Major research interest includes using quantum mechanical methods to study, methane-to-methanol conversion and activation of other small molecules.
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Email at oadeyiga@unr.edu
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Education:
B.Sc Chemistry (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
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Undergraduate Students
Dillon Stetler
Rafiuddin Galib
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Alumni
Post Doc
Naveen .K. Dandu (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Undergraduate Students
Janel Reed (MSc. Notre Dame)
Janelle Bustarde (Desert Reseacrh Institute, Reno, NV)
Ryan Long (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Shaina Bird (Northeast Ohio Medical University, OH)
Robert Lovern
Sirui Wang (University of California, Riverside)
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