Research Profiles:
Research Profiles:
Scopus ID: 57189232720
ORCID: 0000-0003-1947-9691
ResearcherID: B-6185-2016
Publons ID: 1398080
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Scopus ID: 57189232720
ORCID: 0000-0003-1947-9691
ResearcherID: B-6185-2016
Publons ID: 1398080
(1) Personal Details:
(1) Personal Details:
Name: Monu Joy Nationality: Indian Lab Address:
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, (Office: BE - 3.311)School of Natural Sciences and MathematicsThe University of Texas at Dallas800 W. Campbell Rd.Richardson, TX 75080, United States
E-mail: Monu.Joy@utdallas.edu
(2) Academic Training:
(2) Academic Training:
2018 - 2022 - PhD in Chemistry, Clarkson University, New York, USA.
2012 - 2014 - M.Sc. in Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India.
2009 - 2012 - B.Sc. in Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India.
(3) Research Overview, Appointments & Skills:
(3) Research Overview, Appointments & Skills:
Research Interest: Metal-Organic Frameworks; Structural Chemistry; X-ray Crystallography
Appointments:
-Research Scientist -II (Crystallographer), Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States, 2023 - Present
-Charles R. Shipley Jr. Endowed Research Assistant, Clarkson University, New York, United States 2022 (Fall)
-Affiliate - International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) 2022 - Present
-Visiting Student (Internship), X-ray Diffraction Facility (with Dr. Peter Müller), Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, 2022 (Spring)
-Teaching Assistant, Clarkson University, New York, United States 2018 (Fall) - 2022 (Spring)
-Scientific Assistant (Service Crystallographer), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India (2015 - 2018)
Wet-lab experience:
-Synthetic chemistry: Organic and Inorganic synthesis; Post synthetic and in situ guest@host encapsulation techniques through solid-solution interface and mechanochemistry.
-Characterizations: Single-crystal XRD; Powder XRD; Adsorption analysis (through thermal, chemical, and supercritical CO2 activations); Spectroscopy (NMR, IR, Raman, UV-Vis, Photoluminescence).
-Crystal growth techniques: Slow evaporation, Slow cooling, Vapor diffusion, Gel growth, and Layering approach.
Crystallographic experience:
-Single-crystal XRD: Microscopic evaluation & selection of crystals, Effective data collection strategy development, Indexing, Integration, Scaling or Absorption correction, Space group determination, Structure solution, Refinement (various types of twinning, disorder, and systematic refinement), and final CIF editing and IUCr alert clearance. -Total No. of Crystal Structure Solved & Refined up to the Publication Level: ~400
-Powder XRD: Indexing powder pattern using various algorithms, Space group identification through Pawley and Le-bail refinements, Structure solution (minimal idea), and Rietveld refinement.
Computational Chemistry experience:
-Theory: Time-Dependent & Independent Density Functional Theory (Solid-state, Gas-phase, and Solvated systems); Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QMMM); Semi-empirical and Molecular Mechanics; Adsorption through Monte-Carlo approach. Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics. Magnetic Computation: Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field (CASSCF) approach.
-High-Performance Computing used: ACRES, Clarkson University; XSEDE - Pittsburgh Super-Computing (PSC) facility.
Software Skills:
-Single Crystal XRD: SHELX; WinGx; Olex2; XSHEL; Xseed; APEXII & III (SAINT, SADABS, XPREP, RLATT, etc.); CELL_NOW; TWINABS; PLATON; checkCIF; enCIFer; ConQuest; ShelXle with Disordered Structure Refinement (DSR) process; ORTEP; Mercury; VESTA; Diamond.
-Post crystallographic analysis: Crystal Explorer; PIXEL; Oscail; NCImilano.
-Powder XRD: DIFFRAC.EVA; TOPAS-Bruker; TOPAS-Academic; Reflex; GSAS; FullProf; EXPO2014; DASH; TREOR; DICVOL; McMaille; ChekCell.
-Adsorption: ASAP 2020; MicroActive-Micromeritics.
-NMR: TopSpin.
-Computational Chemistry: Gaussian; Spartan; CP2K; Quantum Espresso; embedded Quantum Espresso (eQE); Open Molcas; RASPA2; Material Studio (CASTEP, DMol3, QMERA, GULP, VAMP, Forcite, Sorption, Reflex, DFTB+, ONETEP). SLURM scripting for High-Performance Computing (HPC) .
-Computational Modelling: GaussView; Material Studio; Chemcraft; Avogadro; VESTA.
(4) Teaching:
(4) Teaching:
Regular Teaching:
-Spring 2022 CM131-General Chemistry 1 (Lab & Office Hours) (of-semester)
-Fall 2021: CM132-General Chemistry 2 (Lab & Office Hours) (of-semester)
-Spring 2021: CM131-General Chemistry 1 (Lab & Office Hours) (of-semester)
-Fall 2020: CM132-General Chemistry 2 (Lab & Office Hours) (of-semester)
-Spring 2020: CM132-General Chemistry 2 (Recitation, Lab & Office Hours)
-Fall 2019: CM131-General Chemistry 1 (Recitation, Lab & Office Hours)
-Spring 2019: CM132-General Chemistry 2 (Recitation, Lab & Office Hours)
-Fall 2018: CM131-General Chemistry 1 (Recitation, Lab & Office Hours)
Special Teaching:
Summer 2020: Virtual Workshop on Crystallography for the group members of Prof. Wriedt lab.
-Single-crystal XRD: Effective data collection strategy development, Indexing, Integration, Scaling or Absorption correction, Space group determination, Structure solution, Refinement (various types of twinning, disorder, and systematic refinement) and final CIF editing and IUCr alert clearance; [Twelve 2-hour sessions].
-Powder XRD: Indexing powder pattern using various algorithms, Space group identification through Pawley and Le-bail refinements, Structure solution (minimal idea), and Rietveld refinement; [Twenty-one 2-hour sessions].
(5) Professional Research Activities:
(5) Professional Research Activities:
Professional Membership: American Crystallographic Association American Chemical Society
Workshop (Co)Organized:
§ Crystal Structure Refinement Workshop on 'Getting the Best Structure from your Diffraction Data' - 2024, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.
Conference Chair/Presider/Judge:
§ Undergraduate Research Scholar Awards Poster Contest - 2023, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States - Judge
§ Fall National Meeting - 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS), Chicago, IL, United States - PresiderSection: INOR Chemistry of Materials: Metal-Organic Frameworks.
§ 6th Annual Spring Research & Project Showcase (RAPS) - 2022, Clarkson University, NY, United States - JudgeSection: Graduate Poster - for Sustainability Award.
§ Spring National Meeting - 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS), San Diego, CA, United States - PresiderSection: INOR Chemistry of Materials: Metal-Organic Frameworks (Virtual).
§ 3rd Annual Spring Research and Project Showcase - 2019, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States - ChairSection: Chemistry 1 (Undergraduate) Oral Presentation Session 1.
Academic Participations:
§ The 80th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference - 2023, Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
§ Topas School (Bruker) on Structure Determination and Refinement - 2023, International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD), Newtown Square, PA, United States.
§ Materials Chemistry Symposium - 2022, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States.
§ American Chemical Society (ACS) National Fall Meeting - 2022, Chicago, IL, United States.
§ Annual Meeting of American Crystallographic Association (ACA) - 2022, Portland, OR, United States.
§ 6th Annual Spring Research & Project Showcase (RAPS) - 2022; Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ 12th American Chemical Society Northern New York Local Meeting on 'Chemistry Meets Biology' - 2022, SUNY Potsdam, NY, United States.
§ Bruker AXS / MIT Symposium on 'Modulated Structures' - 2022, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, United States.
§ Crystal Structure Refinement Workshop on 'Getting the Best Structure from your Diffraction Data' - 2021, Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ ACA - 2021 - 71st Annual Meeting of the American Crystallography Association (Virtual).
§ Bruker AXS / MIT Symposium on 'Porous Materials' - 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, United States.
§ Workshop on 'Electrochemistry’ - 2020, Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ Workshop on 'Problems, Errors & Pitfalls in Single Crystal Structure Analysis' - 2019, Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ The 6th Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec (CEMWOQ-6) - 2019; Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
§ 3rd Annual Spring Research & Project Showcase (RAPS) - 2019; Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ Winter School on 'Frontiers in Material Science' - 2017; ICMS, University of Cambridge, Sheikh Saqr Laboratory at JNCASR, Bangalore.
§ International Meeting on 'Highly Correlated Systems' (IMHCS) - 2017; SPAP & IIUCNN, MGU, Kerala.
§ National Workshop on 'Computational Chemistry & Applications' - 2017; SRIBS-KSCSTE, Kerala.
§ Facilitating Innovation & Patent Filing hosted by MHRD Chair on IPR -2016; CUSAT with International & Inter-University Centre for Nano-science & Nanotechnology, MGU.
§ UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Chemistry’, RTriC - 2014; Baselius College, Kottayam, Kerala.
§ UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘NANOCHEMISTRY & NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY, NANOCHEMBIO - 2014’; St. Thomas College, MGU-Kerala.
§ National Workshop on ‘Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications’ - 2014; IIRBS, MGU, Kottayam; (SRIBS-KSCSTE).
§ National Workshop on ‘Computer-Aided Drug Design & Development’ - 2014; IIITM-K Technopark, Trivandrum; (SRIBS-KSCSTE).
§ National Workshop on ‘Advances in instrumental techniques for Nanomaterial characterization’ - 2014; IIUCNN-MGU-Kerala.
§ 23rd Swadeshi Science Congress - 2013; MGU-Kerala.
§ Seminar on ‘Current trends in material science’ - 2013; AMMRC-MGU-Kerala.
§ National Seminar on ‘Mass spectrometry’ - 2013; IUIC-MGU-Kerala.
§ National Workshop on ‘Computational Chemistry’ - 2013; IIITM-K Technopark, Trivandrum; (SRIBS-KSCSTE).
§ National Workshop on ‘Computational Chemistry ’- 2012; SH College, Cochin.
§ Workshop on the ‘Study of Crystals’ - 2012; Transect, Trivandrum.
§ UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Modern trends in Organic Chemistry’ - 2012; Baselius College, MGU Kerala.
§ CSIR Sponsored National Workshop on ‘Emerging Frontiers in Material Chemistry’ - 2011; SB College, MGU-Kerala
Presentations & Invited lecture:
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; Materials Chemistry Symposium - 2022, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States.
§ Structural Elucidation by PXRD of a Novel Zwitterionic Metal-Organic Framework for Enhanced Carbon Capture; ACS National Fall Meeting - 2022, Chicago, IL, United States - [Presider: INOR Chemistry of Materials: Metal-Organic Frameworks].
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; Annual Meeting of American Crystallographic Association (ACA) - 2022, Portland, OR, United States
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; 6th Annual Spring Research & Project Showcase (RAPS) - 2022, Clarkson University, NY, United States [Best Graduate Oral Presentation Award].
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; American Chemical Society Northern New York Local Meeting - 2022, SUNY Potsdam, NY, United States [Best Graduate Poster Award].
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; ACS National Meeting Spring - 2022, San Diego, CA, United States - (Virtual). [Presider: INOR Chemistry of Materials: Metal-Organic Frameworks].
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; Bruker AXS / MIT Symposium (Poster) - 2022, MIT, Boston, MA, United States.
§ Infiltration of Single-Ion Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: Translation of Density Functional Theory to the Experiment; Chemistry Department Seminar - 2021, Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ Electronic structure-property relations of photochromic MOFs on Cambridge crystallographic structural database; ACA 2021 - (Virtual).
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; NNY ACS - 2021; NY, United States.
§ Infiltration of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Controlled Nanostructuration: New Insight from Solid-State Density Functional Theory; eRAPS - 2021; Clarkson University, NY, USA
§ In situ Mechanochemical Encapsulation of Single-Molecule Magnets into Metal-Organic Framework for High-Density Information Storage Applications; eRAPS - 2020; Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ Metal-Organic Frameworks as Platforms for the Nanostructuration of Single-Molecule Magnets: New Insights from HRTEM; Bruker AXS / MIT Symposium, MIT, Boston, MA, United States..§ Metal-Organic Frameworks as Platforms for the Nanostructuration of Single-Molecule Magnets: New Insights from HRTEM; CEMWOQ-6, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
§ A Novel Zwitterionic Metal-Organic Framework for Enhanced Carbon Capture; RAPS, Clarkson University, NY, United States.
§ A Functionalized 2-Pyridone Derivative in a Crystal Engineering and Optical Perspective (Poster); Winter School, JNCASR, Bangalore.
§ Structural Flexibility of a Multifunctional 2-Pyridone Derivative in a Crystal Engineering Perspective (Poster); IMHCS-2017; SPAP & IIUCNN, MGU, Kerala.
§ Computational Chemistry: Basic aspects; (Invited)-2014; Advanced Molecular and Material Research Center(AMMRC), MG University, Kerala.
§ In silico quantum chemical and crystallographic treatment of a novel derivative of formyl ketenedithioacetal; RTriC-2014; Baselius college, Kerala.
§ FT-IR, FT-NMR, and DFT, ab initio calculations of a novel compound – 2-(4-methoxybenzoyl)-3,3-bis(methylsulfanyl)prop-2-enal; Swadeshi Science Congress-2013; MGU-Kerala.
Reviewer of Refereed Journals:
§ ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
§ Journal of Chemical Crystallography
§ Acta Crystallographica Section C
§ Acta Crystallographica Section E
§ Ceramic International
§ Journal of Molecular Structure
§ Structural Chemistry
§ New Journal of Chemistry
§ Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
§ Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials
§ Computational Biology and Chemistry
§ Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics
§ Clinical Phytoscience
§ ChemistrySelect
§ Archiv der Pharmazie
§ Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology
§ Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening
§ Journal of Cluster Science
(6) Awards & Honors:
(6) Awards & Honors:
§ 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Travel Award - The 80th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference held at Pittsburgh, PA - 2023
§ Affiliate - International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
§ Travel Award - American Crystallographic Association (ACA), for the ACA Meeting in Portland, OR - 2022 (Clarkson University Press Release)
§ Visiting Student @ X-ray diffraction Facility (with Dr. Peter Müller), Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, United States, 2022
§ Best Graduate Oral Presentation Award in Chemistry, Physics & Material Science - 6th Annual Spring Research & Project Showcase (RAPS), Clarkson University, 2022
§ Shipley Endowed Fellowship Award - Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, 2022
§ Best Graduate Poster Award - American Chemical Society Northern New York Meeting (SUNY Potsdam, NY, United States), 2022
§ Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship - International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD), 2022 (Clarkson University Press Release | Certificate)
§ Teaching Assistantship, Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, 2018 (Fall) - 2022 (Spring)
§ Publons Peer Review Award 2018 for the top 1% of Reviewers in Chemistry on Publons' Global Reviewer Database
§ Outstanding Reviewing Contribution Award for the Journal of Molecular Structure, 2017
§ Student Project Funding Award (for Master's thesis), Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment - KSCSTE (No.157/SPS/2013/CSTE), 2013
(7) Refereed Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
(7) Refereed Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
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