A new single crystal diffractometer, Rigaku Synergy-S, has arrived, with the installation scheduled for January 2025!

Jose and Ethan finished their projects in the lab and will be moving on with their career.

Olga Barkova graduated with a MS degree, congratulations!

In December we visitied Savannah River National Lab and Dr. Chuvashova gave a seminar.

In November 2024 we went to Florida Inorganic and Materials Symposium (FIMS) 2024 as a group:

• Rafael presented oral talk titled "High Pressure Behaviour of GdTe_1.8"
• Zain presented poster "High-pressure synthesis and properties of Kagome metal NdRe₂"
• Ernesto presented poster "Paris Edinburgh press: A tool for large volume synthesis"
• James presented poster "High Pressure Analysis of Orthorhombic Phase Ytterbium-Aluminate Perovskite"
• Melanie presented poster "Synthesis of New Neodymium Compound in Search of New Quantum Spin Liquid"
• Daniela presented poster "Solid State Synthesis of Lanthanum Borates"
• Ethan presented poster "Raman Analysis of Eu_2.2Ga₁₁Sn₃₅ Under High Pressure"​

New undergraduate physics student Jarenthial Weston has joined the group.

Lia Vaquero started graduate school at FIU!

Olga presented her work "The synthesis of novel lanthanum hydroxyborate La₂B₂O₅(OH)₂ at extreme conditions" at ACS Fall Meeting 2024 in Denver, Colorado.

Dr. Chuvashova and Ernesto participated in the DOE EM MSIPP workshop in Augusta, GA, in August 2024.

We participated in the Summer Research Internship Program with one high school student, Ramisa Afra, joining the lab for the summer project.

Zain published his first paper in Frontiers of Chemistry, Special Issue on Chemistry at Extreme Conditions "High-pressure high-temperature synthesis of NdRe2"

Hannah presented her work "Exploring GdTe_1.8 Through Raman Spectroscopy Under High Pressure" as a poster at NCUR 2024.

Hannah presented her work " Study of GdTe_1.8 Behavior Using High Pressure via Raman Spectroscopy" as an oral presentation at Quantifying Biology in the Classroom (QBIC) Research Symposium 2024.

Hannah presented her work "GdTe1.8 Behavior Using Raman Spectroscopy at High Pressure" as a poster at Undergraduate Research at Florida International University (URFIU) 2024.

Lia showed her work "High pressure studies of Cu₂ZnSnSe₄" at ACS Spring Meeting 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Daniel has presented his work "Raman Spectroscopy of Cu₂ZnSnSe₄ at High Pressures" as a poster at FURC 2024.

Hannah presented her work "High-Pressure Raman Spectroscopy Study of GdTe_1.8 " as a poster at FURC 2024.

Paris Edinburgh press has arrived! The installation has begun!

New dual enrollment high school student Ethan Hall and new dual major (Chem/Phys) undergraduate student Melanie Frolich have joined the group.

New undergraduate students: Daniela Delgado Alfonso, Dennis Horrigan, Jose Ripley and James Vazquez has joined the group.

Dr. Chuvashova received her first grant as lead PI.

Nazanin Kazemiasl has left the group to become a successful pharmacist.

Zain showed his work titled "High-pressure high-temperature synthesis of Nd₂Re₄O₇" in the oral presentation at SERMACS 2023.

Olga, Zain, and Lia presented their works at FIMS 2023:

• oral presentation by Olga titled "The synthesis of novel lanthanum hydroxyborate La₂B₂O₅(OH)₂ at extreme conditions";
• poster presentations by Zain titled "Synthesis of Nd₂Re₄O₇ under Extreme Conditions", who received the Best Poster Award for it
• poster presentations by Lia titled "Investigating Cu₂ZnSnSe₄ at High Pressures".

Zain, Ernesto, and Rafael started graduate school at FIU!

Dr. Chuvashova attended the ACS P2F workshop as a facilitator in Chicago, IL

Olga published her first paper in Frontiers of Chemistry, Special Issue on Chemistry at Extreme Conditions "The synthesis of novel lanthanum hydroxyborate at extreme conditions"

Participated in Summer Research Internship Program with one high school student Thalia Oliveros joining the lab for the summer project.

Kenan Hussaini has left the group to focus on his future successful medical career.

Lia and Nazanin presented their research at FURC 2023 in poster presentations: “High Pressure Studies on Cu₂ZnSnSe₄” and “High-pressure study of Nd-B system up to 28 GPa”, respectively.

Dr. Chuvashova was invited to give a talk at the 11th Annual Women in Science Seminar on Leadership and mentorship

Kenan and Zain presented their research projects at URFIU 2023 in poster presentations: “High Pressure Studies on Cu₂ZnSnSe₄” and “Investigation of the Nd-B System at High Pressures”, respectively

Chuvashova Lab hosted a panel discussion of career options for graduate and undergraduate students.

Bryan Ferro has left the lab to focus on his future medical career.

Dr. Chuvashova presented at IUCr High Pressure Workshop in Chicago, Illinois with invited talk "Chemistry of halogens under high pressure"

Dr. Chuvashova received a secondary appointment in Physics Department, FIU

Graduate student Olga presented her research at EHPRG 2022 with the oral talk "The behavior of simple molecule of bromine under high pressure high temperature conditions"

Dr. Chuvashova attended ACS P2F workshop as a facilitator in Portland, OR

Dr. Chuvashova attended ACS NFW workshop in Washington, DC

Chuvashova Lab participated in Summer Research Internship Program with 3 high school students joining the lab for summer projects

Dr. Chuvashova attended NSF CAREER workshop in Alexandria, VA

First graduate student Olga Ibragimova and new undergraduate students Lia Vaquero, Kenan Hussaini and Bryan Ferro joined the lab.

Published a paper J. Song*, I. Chuvashova*, I. F. Silvera (* equal contribution). Reflectance of Rhenium as a Function of Pressure in a Diamond Anvil Cell // Applied Physics Letters, 120, 011601 (2022), doi: 10.1063/5.0076263.

Dr. Chuvashova attended 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting online (December 13-17) with poster presentation titled "Direct measurements of thermal conductivity of ferropericlase up to 100 GPa at high temperatures using flash laser heating method with Pockels cell "

Dr. Chuvashova attended 2021 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, USA (November 29 - December 2) with oral talk titled "Measurements of Thermal Conductivity of Materials at High Pressures and High Temperatures Using Flash Laser Heating Method with Pockels Cell"

First undergraduate students Nazanin Kazemiasl and Zain Hussein joined the lab

Dr. Chuvashova attended the Conference on Sciences at Extreme Conditions (CESC-2021) online (July 26-30) with oral talk titled "Measurements of thermal conductivity of materials at high pressures and high temperatures using flash laser heating method with Pockels cell"

Dr. Chuvashova started a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University

Dr. Chuvashova has left her postdoc position at Harvard University

Attended 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting online (December 1-17) with poster presentation titled "Direct measurements of thermal conductivity of materials at high pressures and high temperatures using the flash laser heating method with a Pockels cell"

Started a new postdoc position with Prof. Silvera at Physics Harvard

Press release on one of the papers can be found here

Postdoc Spotlight on the EPL Newsletter

Attended 2019 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, USA (December 2-6) with oral talk titled "Thermal Conductivity of Earth Minerals at Extreme Conditions Conditions"

Attended 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA (December 9-13) with oral talk titled "Novel experimental approach to thermal conductivity measurements of materials using continuous and pulsed laser system with Pockels cell". Preview of the talk can be found on Youtube.

GL newsletter mentioned my work on thermal conductivity.

Attended 2018 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA (November 25-30) with oral talk titled "Stoichiometric B13C2 — Structural Stability and Mechanism of Compression up to 68 GPa"

Started a postdoc position with Dr. A. F. Goncharov at Carnegie Science

Attended 2018 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, AZ (April 2-6) with poster presentation titled "Non-Icosahedral Boron Allotrope Synthesised at Extreme Conditions"

Attended 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA (March 18-22) with oral talk titled "Non-icosahedral high-pressure boron allotrope"

Attended 26th Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK) in Essen, Germany (March 5-8) with oral talk titled "Boron allotrope with α-Ga structure synthesized at high pressure and high temperature"

Attended 54th European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) International Meeting on High Pressure Science and Technology in Bayreuth, Germany (September 4-9) with oral talk titled "High-pressure investigation of single crystals of α-boron"

Attended 4th International Scientific Conference STRANN 2014 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia (April 22-25) with poster presentation titled "Synthesis and morphology study of Y2-xGdxO3 spherical particles"

Attended XXI International scientific conference of students, PhD students and young scientists “Lomonosov - 2014” in Moscow, Russia (April 7-11) with oral talk titled "The effect of pH on the microstructure of YGdO3 powders obtained by the method of homogeneous hydrolysis under microwave exposure"

Attended VIII National conference on chemistry with international participation of students, PhD students and young scientists “Mendeleev – 2014” in Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 1-4) with oral talk titled "Synthesis of spherical particles of Y2-xGdxO3:RE(Eu,Tb) and their luminescent properties"

Attended 48th School of FGBU “PNPI” in Physics of Condensed State in Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 10-15) with poster presentation titled "Mesostructure Gd(OH)CO3*xH2O powders with spherical particles of a given size"

Attended XX International scientific conference of students, PhD students and young scientists “Lomonosov-2013” in Moscow, Russia (April 9-13) with poster presentation titled "Study of the effect of yttri nitrate concentration on morphology of Y(OH)CO3 powders"

Attended VII National conference on chemistry and nanomaterials of students, PhD students and young scientists with international participation “Mendeleev – 2013” in Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 2-5) with oral talk titled "Investigation of the mesostructure of Y(OH)CO3 monodisperse particles by methods of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS and SANS)"

Attended First Russian national conference of young scientists, Second Meeting Heads of Inorganic Chemistry Chairs “Modern inorganic Chemistry in Universities in Russia” in Moscow, Russia with poster presentation titled "Study of the micro- and mesostructure of Y0.5Gd0.5(OH)CO3·xH2O powders precipitated from solutions with different pH"

Attended 47th School of FGBU “PNPI” in physics of condensed state in Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 11-16) with poster presentation titled "Study of the mesostructure of Y(OH)CO3 powders precipitated from solutions with different yttrium nitrate concentrations"

Attended Russian national scientific conference with international participation “Polyfunctional materials and chemical technologies” in Tomsk, Russia with poster presentation titled "Research of the mesostructure of Y(OH)CO3 powders deposited from solutions with different reagent ratios"

Attended International Youth Scientific School “Modern neutron diffraction technique” in Dubna, Russia (September 24-28) with oral talk titled "Synthesis and analysis of Y(OH)CO3 monodisperse powders with particles of spherical form by the SANS method"

Attended XIX International scientific conference of students, PhD students and young scientists “Lomonosov-2012” in Moscow, Russia (April 7-12) with oral talk titled "Microwave synthesis and analysis of the luminescent properties of solid solutions Y2-xGdxO3:Eu"

Attended VI All-Russian Conference of young scientists students, post-graduate students and students with the international participation “Mendeleev – 2012” in Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 3-6) with poster presentation titled "Synthesis and study of micromorphology and luminescent characteristics of monodisperse particles Y2-xGdxO3:Eu"

Attended International conference “Chemical technologies” in 2012 in Moscow, Russia (March 18-23) with poster presentation titled "Microwave synthesis of Y2-xGdxO3:Eu monodisperse powders with particles of spherical shape"

Attended 46th School of FGBU “PNPI” in physics of condensed state in Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 12-17) with poster presentation titled "Study of the mesostructure of monodisperse yttrium hydroxocarbonate powders by the SANS (small-angle neutron scattering) method"

Attended XVIII International scientific conference of students, PhD students and young scientists “Lomonosov-2011” in Moscow, Russia (April 1-5) with oral talk titled "Microwave synthesis of monodisperse yttrium hydroxocarbonate powders with spherical particles"

Attended XXI Mendeleev competition of students-chemists in Dubna, Russia with poster presentation titled "Synthesis and study of the micromorphology of monodisperse yttrium hydroxocarbonate powders with spherical particles"