News
2021
July
I started as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department! This web page will be updated or replaced with a new “Bukowski Group” website that is currently under construction.
March
The invited review I authored with Frerich Keil, Peter Ravikovitch, German Sastre, Randy Snurr, and Marc-Olivier Coppens was published in Adsorption. Titled “Connecting Theory and Simulation with Experiment for the Study of Diffusion in Nanoporous Solids”, the article spans 78 pages of detailed examples of how theory and simulation can be used to learn more about diffusion in all kinds of nanoporous materials.
February
My article titled “Gold Stability and Diffusion in the Au/TS-1 Catalyst” was published in J. Phys. Chem. C. This work was a true labor of love when I was at Purdue, and it was an absolute joy to work with Nick Delgass and think about these exciting ideas.
2020
August
I won a poster award at the 2020 Catalysis Club of Chicago Symposium for my postdoc work at Northwestern. Always great to spend time with the Midwest catalysis family!
My article with Rui and first collaboration with the wonderful Hupp group titled “Investigating the Process and Mechanism of Molecular Transport within a Representative Solvent-filled Metal-Organic Framework” has been published in the journal Langmuir.
July
A perspective on zeolite catalysis that I contributed to with Prof. Harris and Jason Bates titled “Opportunities in Catalysis over Metal-Zeotypes Enabled by Descriptions of Active Centers Beyond Their Binding Site” has been published in the journal ACS Catalysis.
June
My new co-first author paper with Jason Bates titled “Structure and solvation of confined water and water–ethanol clusters within microporous Brønsted acids and their effects on ethanol dehydration catalysis” has been published in the journal Chemical Science.
March
I received a postdoc travel award to attend the 17th International Congress on Catalysts in San Diego!
2019
December
My new second author paper with Evan Wegener titled “Intermetallic Compounds as an Alternative to Single‐atom Alloy Catalysts: Geometric and Electronic Structures from Advanced X‐ray Spectroscopies and Computational Studies” has been published in the journal ChemCatChem.
September
My new first author paper with Jason Bates titled “Defect‐Mediated Ordering of Condensed Water Structures in Microporous Zeolites” has been published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
August
I started my position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Randall Q. Snurr’s group at Northwestern University
July
Successfully defended my Ph. D. thesis under Professor Jeffrey Greeley titled “Density Functional Theory Investigations of Zeolite and Intermetallic Alloy Active Site Structures for Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalysis”. My committee members were Professor Jeffrey Greeley, Professor Rajamani Gounder, Professor Fabio Ribeiro, and Professor Alejandro Strachan.
June
I gave a talk at the North American Catalysis Society Meeting titled “Ab-initio studies of site speciation and the rational design of Lewis Acid Zeolites with Combined Microkinetic Modeling and Experiments”.
May
I was invited to give a seminar at Argonne National Laboratory titled “Combined Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Measurements and First Principles Simulations to Understand the Role of Promoter Metals in Platinum Catalysts”.
My new second author paper with Jason Bates titled “Distinct Catalytic Reactivity of Sn Substituted in Framework Locations and at Defect Grain Boundaries in Sn-Zeolites” was published in the journal ACS Catalysis.
April
I received the Richard J. Kokes award at the 26th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society!
I presented the Faculty Lectureship Award Seminar in the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University titled “Ab-initio Simulations of Condensed Water Structures in Microporous Solid Acids and their Role in Heterogeneous Catalysis”.
March
I won the 2019 Faculty Lectureship Award in Chemical Engineering from the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University!
January
I contributed to a paper by Daniel Bregante titled “Cooperative Effects between Hydrophilic Pores and Solvents: Catalytic Consequences of Hydrogen Bonding on Alkene Epoxidation in Zeolites” published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
2018
November
I gave a talk at the American Institute of Chemical Engineering Annual Meeting titled “Ab-initio Modeling of Site Interconversion and Microkinetic Modeling of Lewis Acid Zeolites for Butadiene Synthesis”.
I gave a talk at the American Institute of Chemical Engineering Annual Meeting titled “First Principles Modeling of Extended Solvent Structures in Defected Microporous Materials and their Influence on the Kinetics of Lewis Acid Site Speciation”.
I received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Chemical Reaction Engineering Travel Award!
October
My new second author paper with Zhenwei Wu titled “Changes in Catalytic and Adsorptive Properties of 2 nm Pt3Mn Nanoparticles by Subsurface Atoms” was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
August
I gave a talk at the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Organization Symposium titled “First Principles Modeling of Site Interconversion and Microkinetic Modeling of Lewis Acid Zeolites for Ethanol Dehydration”.
I received the Best Presentation Award at the 27th annual ChE-GSO Symposium Awards for Computational Chemical Engineering at Purdue University.
July
My new first author paper “First principles, microkinetic, and experimental analysis of Lewis acid site speciation during ethanol dehydration on Sn-Beta zeolites” was published in Journal of Catalysis.
June
I presented a poster titled “Ab-initio modeling of site interconversion and microkinetic modeling of Lewis acid zeolites” at the Gordon Research Conference for Catalysis.
I was elected to chair the 2020 Gordon Research Seminar for Catalysis!
May
I gave a talk at the Catalysis Club of Chicago titled “First Principles modeling of Site Interconversion and Microkinetic Modeling of Lewis Acid Zeolites for Ethanol Dehydration” in Naperville IL.
2017
June
I gave a talk at the 25th North American Catalysis Society Meeting in Denver titled “A Periodic DFT Study of the Influence of Lewis Acid Site Speciation on Ethanol Dehydration in Zeolites”.
May
My new second author paper with Viktor Cybulskis titled “Zinc Promotion of Platinum for Catalytic Light Alkane Dehydrogenation: Insights into Geometric and Electronic Effects” was published in ACS Catalysis.
2016
November
I gave a talk at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Conference in San Francisco titled “A Periodic DFT Study of the Influence of Lewis Acid Site Speciation on Ethanol Dehydration in Zeolites”.
I won a Sessions best presentation award from my session “Computational Catalysis III: Biomass Chemistry”.
I was awarded the Eastman Travel Award from Purdue University.
April
I won the Undergraduate Award for Teaching Excellence in a Senior Course Award at Purdue University!
February
My new first author paper titled “Scaling Relationships for Molecular Adsorption and Dissociation in Lewis Acid Zeolites” was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
2015
November
My first ever first author paper titled “The Interactions between TiO2 and graphene with surface inhomogeneity determined using density functional theory” was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
February
My first paper titled “Bamboo shaped carbon nanotube supported platinum electrocatalyst synthesized by high power ultrasonic-assisted impregnation method for methanol electrooxidation and related density functional theory calculations” was published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.