I am a professor at Michigan State University specializing in quantum and computational chemistry and physics. If you would like to learn more about our research group, please click here:

I'd like to add that the foreword for the special issue of @MolecularPhys, by the Guest Editors, Drs. Karol Kowalski and Nicholas Bauman from @PNNLab, has been released online: https://t.co/y0gyxRpMb2. I'm truly honored. Many🙏, Karol and Nick, for organizing this issue! @MSUChem

A few days ago, @MolecularPhys published one more great paper in a special issue celebrating my 65th birthday, by my good friend, Prof. Krzysztof Szalewicz from @UDelaware, and coauthors, on a fully dimensional PES of the HF dimer: https://t.co/cPRn7w5ur2. Thank you, Krzysztof!

I’ve just noticed yet another great article in a special issue of @MolecularPhys in my honor, by Prof. Maricris Mayes from @UMassD and coauthors, on ultrafast photodecay of o-fluorophenol: https://t.co/ceAvvkRiHq. Maricris defended her PhD with me in 2007. Thank you, Maricris!

At the same time, total amounts of money in Polish single-PI grants are comparable to or higher than those offered by NSF & DOE. 🇵🇱 also has access to ERC grants which are much higher (even than NIH). This should be a wake-up call to our universities & governments. Will it be?4/4

For example, our overhead rates are often ~60% or more (as opposed to 20% in 🇵🇱), our increasingly large grad. tuition fees (in my univ. ~50% of student stipend) are charged to the grants (no such thing in 🇵🇱), and healthcare costs, charged to grants too, are larger & larger. 3/4

I’m sorry to say this, but the situation in the US, when it comes to scientific research, is deteriorating. Our funding levels are too low and universities are charging enormous costs to federal grants that leave us with less and less money to fund PhD students and postdocs. 2/4

Based on my visits to 🇵🇱, conditions for pursuing PhD & postdoctoral work offered by the most research active groups in 🇵🇱 are nowadays better than those offered by most US universities. Consider Polish universities when applying for PhD studies & postdocs. 1/4

We’ve completed a project in which Prof. Achintya Dutta and his @iitbombay group, working closely with @KGururangan, who defended his PhD with me in March, extended full & approximate DIP-EOMCCSDT(4h-2p) methods to a relativistic 4-component framework. See

I’m back in Michigan. A few hrs ago we learned that our paper on extending the CC(P,Q) framework to the EA/IP-EOMCC regime ( https://t.co/X1b2QsVah2), which has been selected as one of the Editors' Choice Articles in Chem. Phys. Lett., is out! Take a look:

The MDMM 2025 conference in Wrocław is about to end. Yesterday, we had a boat trip followed by a banquet in a lovely place facing the main bldg of @uniwroc. A few pics with my friends from the Jagiellonian Univ., Prof. Artur Michalak and Profs. Jacek & Beata Korchowiec, attached.

MDMM 2025 is in full swing. I just gave my talk on H3+ formation from halogens and pseudohalogens based on a paper that we published earlier this year in @NatureComms ( https://t.co/deKKzVKMjl). When I walk to a conference venue each day, I have very nice views; example attached.

The final leg of my 3-week visit to Wrocław, i.e., the MDMM 2025 conference organized by Prof. Tadeusz Andruniów and his team at @PWr_Wroclaw ( https://t.co/gi5nKs5PIT), has just begun. Earlier today, we had several great lectures and poster presentations. My talk is in 2 days.

I also met with my wonderful mentor, Prof. Henryk Ratajczak, who supported me in my early research as an undergrad and grad assistant that resulted in 17 single-author and 1 multi-author papers published between 1982 and 1990 (items 1, 2, 24-38, 40 in https://t.co/OTRrLfwbx3).2/2

2 days ago, I gave my 2nd lecture at @WCh_UWr (see https://t.co/2sBVh0nQKm). The day before, I had longer and interesting discussions with 2 superb scientists from @WCh_UWr, Profs. Marcin Stępień ( https://t.co/NtLS6uS3FS) and Małgorzata Biczysko ( https://t.co/3T3nmXMvSR). 1/2

My day ended with a party organized by my friends living in or visiting Wrocław, who attended one of the best high schools in 🇵🇱 with me from 1974 to 1978 (Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr. III, https://t.co/hkaRtNj5xB), where we were taught college-level math by university profs. 3/3

Then, I had a longer and fruitful conversation with a world renowned friend of mine at @WCh_UWr, Prof. Cyryl Lechosław Latos-Grażyński ( https://t.co/rzPCvKAvdW), after which we went for lunch, joined by another friend of mine and great chemist, Prof. Kazimierz Orzechowski. .. 2/3

Earlier today, I gave my 1st of the 2 lectures planned for this week at @WCh_UWr, announced at https://t.co/63QzhZHJqy, in which I discussed our collaborative work reported in https://t.co/deKKzVKetN on factors governing formation of H3+ from halogens and pseudohalogens. … 1/3

Tomorrow, I’ll give my 1st of the 2 lectures this week at @WCh_UWr. I’m sharing a few more pics from Wrocław: in front of the main bldg of @uniwroc, walking along Oder, with a view of https://t.co/6qH1eMaVUv, and night views of https://t.co/lls3fW44fF & https://t.co/uw0exN2l2S.

The wonderfully organized EUCMOS 2025 ( https://t.co/3Qhvy4TNI6) ended last Friday. Here are a few last conference pictures that I have on my phone, from the banquet and from my lecture based on https://t.co/cjPhbPiyZj, https://t.co/q4IcG0qvuD, and DOI https://t.co/PbWBBvXysr.

I used the concert opportunity to get myself photographed with the EUCMOS 2025 Chair and my friend Prof. Kazimierz Orzechowski. My EUCMOS talk is in 2 days ( https://t.co/cMvEJF5Elb). Next week, I’ll give 2 lectures in @WCh_UWr; https://t.co/63QzhZIhg6 and https://t.co/2sBVh0nQKm.