The Hypothetical Materials Lab
Welcome to the Wilmer Lab! We explore the properties of hypothetical materials using computer simulations. There are openings for students and full-time software developers. Please contact Prof. Wilmer for details.
Recent posts
Brian Day wins the PQI travel award
Brian wins the 2020 Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) travel award for his poster presented during the 2020 poster competition.
Blign launches!
Blign, a Blender plugin for aligning and distributing objects developed by Kutay and Jack of the WilmerLab, launches!
PhD student Kutay Sezginel wins Braskem America, Inc. Graduate Student Award
Kutay takes home one of two awards given to the top graduate students in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at this year’s holiday reception.
Kutay Sezginel successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr. Sezginel!
Kutay Sezginel (now Dr. Kutay Sezginel) becomes the third WilmerLab PhD alumnus after successfully defending his thesis.
Kutay leads MolSSI Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh
Kutay leads a two-day best software practices workshop at the University of Pittsburgh, covering topics from Python code style to git basics
ChemE team wins 2nd place at IBM BlueHack!
During the 2019 IBM BlueHack hackathon, a team of ChemE PhD students from the Wilmer Lab, Little Lab, and Li Lab beat out 19 other teams for a second place f...
Popular YouTube content creator makes a video about the upcoming computational nanocar race and our nanocar builder
The video has reached around half a million views already!
Alec Kaija successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr. Kaija!
Alec Kaija (now Dr. Alec Kaija) becomes the second WilmerLab PhD alumnus after successfully defending his thesis.