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2025
NSF Supplemental Funding
April 2025 Our DMREF team received supplemental funding from NSF to establish collaboration with NSF PREM at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Best Poster Award for Valentina
March 2025 Valentina received the best poster presentation in her section at AU Graduate Engineering Research Showcase.
2024
Applied Physics Letters Outstanding Presentation Award
December 2024 Prof. Klyukin received a APL Poster Award at Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems.
Travel Award to Present Research at Denver, CO
August 2024 Valentina received travel award from American Chemical Society to present her research at Fall 2024 meeting at Denver, CO. Well deserved!
Auburn Engineering Summer EXPO
August 2024 Our team participated in the Engineering Summer Expo, organizing several sessions for K9-12 students. We look forward to seeing all of them at AU!
Another Graduate Student Award for Vlad
May 2024 Vlad received the AU Outstanding Graduate Student Award and renewed his Alabama EPSCoR Research Fellowship. These prestigious honors highlights his leadership and dedication to excellence in research. Read an article about his achievements.
CM4 Symposium
May 2024 It was a pleasure to be involved in the organization of the CM4 Symposium and meeting all the students and faculty engaged in multi-scale modeling of materials at Auburn and Tuskegee Universities.
Graduate Student Award for Valentina
April 2024 Valentina received the Outstanding Service Award from our department and Women 100+ Graduate Student Award from College of Engineering in recognition of her exceptional contributions to outreach, community engagement and teaching.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
April 2024 Our group member Nana Kwasi Nkansa Tweneboah was awarded prestigious Undergraduate Research Fellowship and will work with me and Valentina on the discovery of 2D materials.
Valentina's Research was Featured on Front Cover
March 2024 Valentina's first paper at our group was featured on the front page of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Outstanding Faculty Award for Prof. Klyukin
March 2024 It is a great honor to receive Outstanding Faculty Award from our College .
Visit to AU HPC
March 2024 Our group visited AU High-Performance Computing Facilities to learn more about infrastructure that helps us to make discoveries.
Ana-Maria joins our team
January 2024 We warmly welcome Ana-Maria Stratulat, who joined our team in early 2024.
2023
NSF DMREF
September 2023
Our group is extremely happy and grateful for the support provided by the NSF DMREF award.
Graduate Student Service Award
August 2023
Department of Materials Engineering recognized Vlad with a service award. Well deserved!
Invited Seminar
July 2023
Our group hosted research seminar given by Dr. Alexandra Zagalskaya from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Lab Session for High-School Students
July 2023
Our team participated in K-12 summer camp. A short lecture and a lab session introduced high-school students to the basics of materials engineering.
AL-EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program
May 2023
Vlad received AL-EPSCoR GRSP fellowship. Congratulations!
E-Day Open House
February 2023
Our group has participated in E-Day Open House event organized by the College of Engineering for K5-12 school students.
Welcome Valentina!
January 2023
Valentina Nesterova joined our group. Welcome to Auburn!
2022
Additional Computational Resources
December 2022
We got additional computational resources at TACC Frontera, one of the fastest supercomputers available for academic research.
Welcome Vlad and James!
August 2022
Vlad and James are the first Ph.D. and M.S. students to join our group! We congratulate Vlad on the prestigious Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship.
Invited Talk at Solid State Ionics 23
July 2022
Konstantin gave an invited talk at Solid State Ionics conference.
NASA EPSCoR funding
July 2022
We are very grateful to the NASA EPSCoR program for supporting our research with a seed grant.
Senior Tigers Engineering Camp
July 2022
It was a great pleasure for us to participate in Tigers Camp and talk with K-12 students about materials discovery and global energy challenges.
XSEDE Research Allocation
January 2022
Research projects will require a lot of computational horsepower over the next years. Our first NSF XSEDE Research Allocation was approved.
Hello world!
January 2022
Our new group is starting at Auburn University!
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