Funding

Our research has been supported by the following agencies and programs:

  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (12/01/21 - 06/30/25; current; for more information, please click here).
  • National Science Foundation, CHE-Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods (07/01/18 - 06/30/22; for more information, please click here).
  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (12/01/18 - 11/30/21; for more information, please click here).
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (12/01/19 - 11/30/20; for more information, please click here).
  • National Science Foundation, OAC-Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, via Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Phase I and Phase II MolSSI Software Fellowships awarded to a Ph.D. student in the Piecuch group, J.E. Deustua (07/01/18 - 06/30/20; for more information, please click here).
  • Strategic Partnership Grants Program, Michigan State University Foundation (07/01/16 - 06/30/19; for more information, please click here).
  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (12/01/15 - 11/30/18; for more information, please click here).
  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (06/01/13 - 11/30/15; for more information, please click here).
  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (06/01/10 - 05/31/13; for more information, please click here).
  • The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through Spectral Sciences, Inc., the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (05/03/10 - 02/02/11; for more information, please click here).
  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (06/01/07 - 05/31/10; for more information, please click here).
  • Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (09/01/04 - 05/31/07; for more information, please click here).
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan (10/01/05 - 11/30/05).
  • National Science Foundation, ITR Small Grants (09/01/03 - 08/31/06; for more information please click here).
  • The Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation (09/16/02 - 09/15/04).
  • Office of Basic Energy Sciences, SciDAC Computational Chemistry Program, U.S. Department of Energy (09/01/01 - 08/31/04; for more information, please click here).
  • National Science Foundation, CHE-Chemical Instrumentation (08/15/99 - 07/31/02; for more information, please click here).
  • MSU Intramural Research Grant Program, Science and Engineering Award (New Faculty; 05/15/99 - 09/15/00; for more information, please click here).

    • We gratefully acknowledge this support.

    We were also awarded the following grant (with three other Co-PIs):

  • National Science Foundation, PHY-Nuclear Theory (06/01/08 - 05/31/11; awarded in April 2008; for more information, please click here).

    • We played a major role in establishing multi-milion dollar High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC) and iCER facilities on MSU campus. Information about the MSU REF program grant, co-authored by Piotr, which provided most of the funding needed to establish HPCC in 2004, can be found in Piotr's curriculum vitae, in section "Grant Support". Some additional information about Piotr's role in establishing HPCC and iCER can be found in section "Service to the Department, College, and the University (MSU)" of Piotr's curriculum vitae.

    Piotr's title of University Distinguished Professor, awarded to him by MSU in 2007, carried a five-year stipend to support his professional activities, including research performed by our group. Piotr's appointment as an MSU Foundation Professor in 2020 has provided our group with discretionary research support beginning July 1, 2020, which will continue until 2025. We are most grateful to MSU for providing us with these additional sources of funding.

    Last, but not least, part of our research over the years has been supported by awards and fellowships provided to graduate students and postdocs in our group. Among them are the Phase-I and Phase-II MolSSI Software Fellowships awarded to Jorge Emiliano Deustua (2018-2020; see above for further details), the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Jeffrey Gour (2005-2009), the NATO-B1/TUBITAK Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Armagan Kinal (2004-2005), the MSU's Affirmative Action Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Jesse Edwards (1999-2000), the stipend offered by the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan, to support Jared Hansen's one-semester visit to the Institute in 2014, and multiple one-semester fellowships provided to past and present graduate student members of our group by our college (the College of Natural Science Dissertation Continuation and/or Completion Fellowships to Ian Pimienta (2003), Peng-Dong Fan (2004), Maricris Lodriguito Mayes (2007), Jeffrey Gour (2010), Jesse Lutz (2011), Jared Hansen (2012, 2015), Nicholas Bauman (2014, 2016), Adeayo Ajala (2017), Jorge Emiliano Deustua (2018), Ilias Magoulas (2019, 2020), Stephen Yuwono (2020, 2022), and Arnab Chakraborty (2022)) and department (the Dye Fellowships to Michael McGuire in 2004 and Maricris Lodriguito Mayes in 2005). We gratefully acknowledge this support as well.