Month: May 2025

We are proud to announce that Prof. Castellano has been honored with the 2025 Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award at NC State University. In addition, he has been inducted into the NC State Research Leadership Academy (RLA), one of the university’s highest honors for faculty engaged in research leadership and mentoring.

This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Castellano’s outstanding contributions to the advancement of scientific research and innovation. His visionary approach and sustained excellence in research have had a lasting impact across disciplines at NC State and beyond.

Beyond his own scientific achievements, Dr. Castellano is widely recognized for fostering a collaborative and inclusive research environment. His dedication to mentorship and interdisciplinary teamwork has shaped a dynamic group committed to addressing complex scientific challenges.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Castellano on this well-deserved recognition!

Congratulations to Austin on passing his final Ph.D. oral defense! the title of his dissertation was “Probing 1st Row Transition Metal Complexes for Radical Generation and Photoredox Applications” . Austin has been one of the most talented and prolific synthetic chemists in the group, and he also succeeded in time resolved visible, infrared, and EPR spectroscopies. We wish him the best of luck in his future career endeavors.

Manuscript No.: ic-2025-00650w (acs.inorgchem.5c00650)
Title: Direct Evidence for Buffer-Enhanced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Generation of a High Valent Metal-oxo Complex .
Authors: Matthew Carl Kessinger, Silvia Grandi, Thomas Whittemore, Evgeny O. Danilov, Felix N. Castellano, Stefano Caramori, Gerald J. Meyer

Reem Alameh has successfully passed her PhD final oral defense exam. The title of her dissertation was “Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Rhenium(I) Complexes“. Reem was the first graduate student who used femtosecond IR transient absorption setup with femto- to microsecond delay built at the IMAKS. Excellent and unique results, Reem! Congratulations!