| Oct 2024 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Theoretical evidence of H-He demixing under Jupiter and Saturn conditions' is published in Nat. Commun. and featured in Editor's Highlights. |
| Jul 2024 | PAPER: 'Phase transition in silicon from machine learning informed metadynamics' is published in ChemPhysChem as a cover article and selected as Chemistry Europe Editors' Choice: Spotlights. |
| May 2024 | AWARD: Mangladeep is awarded Teacher Scholar Doctoral Fellowship. |
| Mar 2023 |
PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Quantum structural fluxion in superconducting lanthanum polyhydride' is published in Nat. Commun.. |
| Oct 2022 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Size-dependent nucleation in crystal phase transition from machine learning metadynamics' is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and featured as a Cover Article. |
| May 2022 | PEOPLE: Mangladeep Bhullar joins the group as a Ph. D. student. |
| Jan 2022 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Design principles for high-temperature superconductors with a hydrogen-based alloy backbone at moderate pressure' is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and designated as a 'Editor's Suggestion'. |
| Jan 2022 | PEOPLE: Akinwumi Akinpelu joins the group as a Ph. D. student. |
| Sep 2021 | PEOPLE: Adebayo Adeniyi successfully defended his Ph. D. Thesis. |
| May 2021 | PEOPLE: Adebayo Adeleke successfully defended his Ph. D. Thesis. |
| Mar 2021 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Quantum and classical proton diffusion in superconducting clathrate hydrides' is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. |
| Nov 2020 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Hydrogen pentagraphenelike structure stabilized by hafnium: A high-temperature conventional superconductor' is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and designated as a 'Editor's Suggestion'. |
| Sep 2020 | AWARD: Adebayo Adeniyi is awarded Herzberg Memorial Scholarship, the highest honor for graduate students in the department. |
| Jun 2020 | PEOPLE: Damilare Adeniyi joins the group as an Mitacs research training student. |
| Jun 2020 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Nitrogen in black phosphorus structure' is published in Sci. Adv. (News in EurekAlert!) |
| Jan 2020 | PEOPLE: Lixiang Ji joins the group as a M. Sc. student. |
| Nov 2019 | PAPER: 'A high-pressure compound of argon and nickel: noble gas in the earth’s core?' is featured on the cover of ACS Earth Space Chem. and the most read article of the month. |
| Apr 2019 | AWARD: Yansun is acknowledged as '2019 Teacher of the Year' by Physics and Engineering Physics Students' Society. |
| Dec 2018 | PEOPLE: Yansun joins the Editorial Board of J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. |
| Sep 2018 | AWARD: Adebayo Adeleke is awarded Herzberg Memorial Scholarship, the highest honor for graduate students in the department. |
| Sep 2018 | PEOPLE: Adebayo Adeniyi joins the group as a Ph. D. student. |
| Aug 2018 | PEOPLE: Arnab successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis. |
| Mar 2018 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Synthesis of xenon and iron/nickel intermetallic compounds at Earth's core thermodynamic conditions' is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. |
| Jan 2018 | PAPER: Invited review article, 'Superconducting Hydrogen Sulfide' is published in Chem. Eur. J. and selected for Showcase of Outstanding Review Articles. |
| Dec 2017 | PEOPLE: Adebayo successfully defended his M. Sc. thesis, rejoins the group as a Ph.D student. |
| Sep 2017 | PAPER: 'Novel Modulated Structure of Superconducting Hydrogen Sulfide' is published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and designated as a 'VIP (very important paper)'. |
| May 2017 | AWARD: Arnab receives a Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship. |
| May 2017 | AWARD: Yansun receives the 2016-17 College of Arts and Science New Scientist Research Award.(A&S News) |
| May 2017 | PEOPLE: Draven Galeschuk rejoins the group as an undergraduate researcher. |
| Jan 2017 | AWARD: Yansun receives the 2016-17 Physics & Engineering Physics Research Excellence Award. |
| Sep 2016 | PAPER: Collaborative work, 'Crystal Structures and Dynamical Properties of Dense CO2' is published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. |
| Sep 2016 | AWARD: Arnab is awarded Herzberg Memorial Scholarship, the highest honor for graduate students in the department. |
| Aug 2016 | PAPER: Collaborative publication with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab is highlighted in ScienceDaily and spectroscopyNOW. |
| Jun 2016 | PEOPLE: Draven Galeschuk joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. |
| Apr 2016 | PEOPLE: Michael successfully defended his M. Sc. thesis, rejoins the group as a Ph.D student. |
| Jan 2016 | AWARD: Yansun receives the 2015-16 Physics & Engineering Physics Teaching Excellence Award. |
| Jan 2016 | PEOPLE: Adebayo Adeleke joins the group as a M. Sc. student. |
| Sep 2014 | PEOPLE: Arnab Majumder joins the group as the first Ph. D. student. |
| Feb 2014 | PAPER: Carnegie Institution of Canada funded project, 'Ambient-Pressure Polymerization of Carbon Anions in the High-Pressure Phase Mg2C' is published in Inorg. Chem. |
| Jan 2014 | PEOPLE: Michael Greschner joins the group as the first graduate student. |
| May 2013 | PEOPLE: Kyle LeBlanc joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. |
| Mar 2013 | PAPER: First paper at the U of S, 'Pressure Induced Dimer to Ionic Insulator and Metallic Structural Changes in Al2Br6' is featured on the cover of the J. Chem. Phys. |
| Nov 2012 | PEOPLE: Yansun Yao joins the University of Saskatchewan as an Assistant Professor. |