Bravaya Named 2014 Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow
The Junior Faculty Fellows program of Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering was established in 2011 both to recognize outstanding junior faculty at Boston University working in diverse areas of the computational sciences, as well as to provide focal points for supporting broader collaborative research in these areas at BU and beyond. Junior Fellows are selected by the Hariri Institute Executive Steering Committee based on nominations received each spring, and are appointed for a two-year term. Each Fellow will give a Hariri Institute Distinguished Lecture.
Chemistry’s Professor Ksenia Bravaya was named one of the four faculty selected as a Fellow for the 2014-2016 term. Professor Bravaya joined the Department of Chemistry in 2013. Her research focuses on state-of-the-art applications and fundamental studies of the microscopic processes at the heart of bio-imaging of cellular processes and excited state reactions, as well as on the development of new quantum chemical computational methodology aimed at addressing unsolved critical challenges in the simulation of a wide variety of excited electronic state processes in complex systems.
Professor Lawrence Ziegler, Chemistry Department Chair, describes her as “a Theoretical and Computational Chemist of national standing and a rising star in the international community,” adding that “given her strong upward trajectory in highest quality research productivity and her pivotal role in developing University Research initiatives in computational materials science, it is no surprise that she has received this honor to be a Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow. She will be an excellent ambassador for Computational Science.“