Throwback to the annual highlight of our department’s honour’s thesis presentations last Tuesday! The breadth and quality of the work never ceases to amaze us. (1/2)
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… and well represented by our chemistry faculty, at the forefront of innovation! @barryblight.bsky.social @cortogantese.bsky.social #RPC
UNB Research@unbresearch.bsky.social · 5mo agoUNB's Research & Innovation Partnerships team, along with Springboard Atlantic partners and Vimy Forge, recently hosted a Dual-Use Technology Summit. Read more about the event and how UNB contributes to innovation for Canada’s defence, security and sovereignty: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
Michael Schuurman from @uottawa.ca /NRC showing how ultrafast spectroscopy can help us better understand isomerization processes in the a/diabatic picture in today’s department seminar.
Monday department seminar by @memorialu.bsky.social’s Dr. Graham Bodwell on how to negotiate with Nature to get strain in aromatic systems with pyrenophenes #aromatics #chemsky 🧪
Omid closed an exciting and busy January seminar schedule!
Stijn De Baerdemacker@cortogantese.bsky.social · 7mo agoToday’s seminar in the @chemistryunb.bsky.social department featured our postdoc Omid Tarkhaneh, talking about their PhD work on machine learning HOMO-LUMO gaps using ensemble learning. #compchem
Right before the white season hits: green chemistry with #upei’s Dr. Marissa Clapson during the department’s last departmental seminar, educating us on the diversity of sustainability and sustainability of diversity. 🧪💚
Watch Harri's award lecture next Thursday!
RSC Advances@rscadvances.rsc.org · 9mo agoWe would like to highlight the winner of the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 in the Inorganic Chemistry category, T. Harri Jones, for his contribution in doi.org/10.1039/D4RA... 🏆Congratulations! Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...
Our seminar coordinator Dr. Jan-Hendrik Pöhls (left) introducing 2025’s Toole lecturer Dr. Alex Voznyy from @utsc.utoronto.ca presenting lessons learned from #AI for materials discovery, or extrapolation ≠ interpolation. #chemsky #canchem
As always, lively discussions and a whole-lotta-learning during QuNB seminars! (2/2)
Wonderful hosting Ruben Van der Stichelen again in the QuNB lab during a quick hop from his @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social long stay abroad at the Izmaylov lab at UofT. Quantum chemistry in the age of NISQ and the seniority quantum number. (1/2)
Insightful lecture today by @ualberta.bsky.social Dr Arthur Mar on prediction principles in material chemistry, or how to not be a #cleverhans!
Happy to be highlighted by @unbresearch.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social for this exciting work completed by Dr Mason Lawrence and Rob Horne on our team, supported by Research NB. blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...
From refinery waste to useful materials and green fuel: New research could revolutionize the global aluminum industry
New research by UNB chemistry professor Dr. Barry Blight could revolutionize how we deal with aluminum refining waste, aluminum recycling and even fuelling our world—reducing how much material ends up...
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Join us in celebrating Research Celebration Week at UNB, October 6-10, 2025! This week puts a spotlight on the impactful research happening at our university, and the talented and committed people who make it happen. Find the full list of activities and more at: unb.ca/researchweek
When a Machine Learning model trains on just DFT energies, does it pick up there is an underlying quantity that governs the data: the electron density? We set out to investigate that question, and looked at electron populations in very much the same way we looked at embedding representations (1/5)
Congrats to Harri, job well done 🎉🥳
Barry Blight@barryblight.bsky.social · 12mo agoMany Congrats to Harri Jones for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! Thanks to Prof Dave Herbert of U Manitoba for acting as the external examiner. Well done, Harri! @chemistryunb.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social
Excited to see this long-running #CompChem collaboration with @cortogantese.bsky.social now in print! Led by the excellent Amir Ayati, we develop a new computational method to capture strong electron correlation. @uclchemistry.bsky.social @chemistryunb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
Spin-generator coordinate method for electronic structure
We present a new application of the generator coordinate method (GCM) as an electronic structure method for strong electron correlation in molecular systems. We
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🎉Congrats to Emily Doucet from the Pöhls group for winning the C-Therm Award for Excellence in Solid-State Chemistry at #CSC2025 www.linkedin.com/posts/c-ther...
Congratulations to Emily Doucet from the University of New Brunswick for winning the C-Therm Award for Excellence in Solid-State Chemistry at CSC Ottawa 2025 (Chemical Institute of Canada / Institut… ...
Congratulations to Emily Doucet from the University of New Brunswick for winning the C-Therm Award for Excellence in Solid-State Chemistry at CSC Ottawa 2025 (Chemical Institute of Canada / Institut d...
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Mason had awesome engagement at the final talk slot of #CSC2025. Making hydrogen gas and Aluminum MOFs from Al waste.
Strong delegation from @chemistryunb.bsky.social QuNB group at @ciccheminst.bsky.social #csc2025 meeting in Ottawa! Contributions from 1. Ehsan Ghasempouri discussing Max-Cut inspired quantum circuit decomposition for spin glasses on Mon (arxiv.org/abs/2504.12096) [bottom center] (1/4)
reference character is concentrated. The rest is dynamical correlation. NOCI+PT2 becomes the work horse. Ideas that have been floating between @hughburton.com and the QuNB group for a few years, it’s been an honour to work with these bright scientists (2/2) @chemistryunb.bsky.social
Very happy to have this one out! Two takeaways or tl:dr’s: 1. Spin projection is known to be “too expensive” as an N-body operation, but not if you focus on the relevant (valence) space where static correlation strikes. 2. This basically helps you identifying the active space where the multi (1/2)
Hugh Burton@hughburton.com · last yr.Our collaboration with @cortogantese.bsky.social on spin-constrained projected HF is now published! New methodology for multireference #CompChem problems without active spaces. @uclchemistry.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org doi.org/10.1021/acs....
The Canadian Journal of Chemistry Best Paper Award recognizes the “best paper” published in the volume year of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry (CJC). Congrats to Amer El-Samman & @cortogantese.bsky.social of the University of New Brunswick on being the recipients of this award. buff.ly/5RkYtx1
Very proud of the team effort that went into this! UG’s Stef De Castro (pKA) and Brooke Morton (13C- NMR), wonderfully mentored by recently minted PhD Amer El-Samman (logS)! It was the smoking gun for us that embeddings from GCNNs could learn actual chemistry #ProudPI
Chemical Institute of Canada@ciccheminst.bsky.social · last yr.The Canadian Journal of Chemistry Best Paper Award recognizes the “best paper” published in the volume year of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry (CJC). Congrats to Amer El-Samman & @cortogantese.bsky.social of the University of New Brunswick on being the recipients of this award. buff.ly/5RkYtx1
Right “in resonance” with #WorldQuantumDay2025, #UNBResearch posted a research profile of the QuNB lab blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
“If we succeed, it will be a giant leap for humanity.” Meet the chair: Dr. Stijn De Baerdemacker, CRC in Theoretical Chemistry
Dr. Stijn De Baerdemacker is the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). He’s also an associate professor of chemistry and associate research dir...
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Check out the #ResearchNB spotlight on the Blight lab @barryblight.bsky.social!
Barry Blight@barryblight.bsky.social · last yr.Incredibly honoured to be highlighted by one of my primary funders. The support from #ResearchNB (and its previous incarnations: NBHRF and NBIF) has been truly transformative for our work and the training of my team. Thank you!! researchnb.ca/impact-stori...
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Final fotoshoot for year-end highlight #2: Chem4000 honours presentations. Congrats to all researchers for your awesome research over the year and presentations today. Proud & sad to see some of you fly out, happy to see some of you return after summer in different roles!! #chemsky 🧪🧑🔬👩🔬👨🔬🥼⚗️💻
Dr Ghislain Deslongchamps (left) introducing former Chem4000 Honours student Alain Dechênes, now Vice-President of the Montréal-based Chemical Computing Group (of MOE notoriety), reminding us (right) about the importance of computing in (bio)chemistry during Department Seminar (for a packed room).
