BAILEY RESEARCH GROUP

Inorganic Chemistry • Clean Energy • Catalysis • Synthesis • Spectroscopy • Methodology

WHAT WE DO

The Bailey lab is an inorganic chemistry group at the University of Minnesota. We use synthesis, crystallography, and spectroscopy to solve problems related to clean energy and sustainable catalysis. 











   
















2024: 

[05/09] Congratulations Marlan and Alex on your graduation!

[02/05] Gwen presents a short talk on Manu, Eryck, and Mike's work on shapeshifting copper chalcogenide clusters at the Atomically Precise Nanochemistry GRC!

[01/15] The Bailey group was awarded a Doctoral New Investigator grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund to pursue their research on using copper chalcogenide clusters to support inert bond activation! 

2023:

[12/20] Manu passes his oral preliminary exam and officially becomes a Ph.D. candidate! Congrats on your hard work, Manu – we're so glad to have you in the program! 

[12/15] Eryck passes his oral preliminary exam and officially becomes a Ph.D. candidate! Congrats on your hard work, Eryck – we're so glad to have you in the program! 

[11/27] Congrats to Manu for being awarded the Pothapragada International Student Fellowship! We are so proud of your accomplishments and so happy to have you on board our team! 

[06/17] Rupal presents some exciting iron-sulfur cluster chemistry at the UMN + 3M symposium! Congrats on disseminating your research, Rupal!

[06/05] Gwen presents Lauren's work on heterobimetallic Mo/Cu sulfide nanoclusters at CCCE – Vancouver 2023!

[06/01] Congrats to Lauren on a fantastic third year talk at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Symposium!

[05/18] The Bailey lab wins the Safest Lab (CHEM) prize from the UMN Joint Safety Team! We received an "Exemplary" (5/5) score in 17/18 categories. Congratulations everyone on your hard work in keeping the lab safe!

[06/18] Congrats to Marlan and Alex for being awarded UMN summer research fellowships!

[05/12] Congrats to Jed for graduating with a B.Sc. in chemistry!

[04/27] Lauren and Rupal present on their work at the 2023 Jeannette Brown Lectureship!

[04/19] Lauren and Rupal present on their work at the Electrochemical Society Meeting. Congrats!

[03/16] Alex Yount joins the lab. Welcome Alex!

[03/08] Gwen presents the lab's first invited talk at GRC – Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms 2023!

[01/25] Bowie (aka Glovebox 3) joins the lab

2022:

[11/08] First years Eryck Garcia Labarca, Grace Murphy, and Manu Kallumkal join the lab. Welcome!

[09/06] Our first postdoctoral researcher, Michael Trenerry, joins the lab!

[06/15] Gwen presents the group's first research talk at CCCE – Calgary 2022!

[06/02] Congrats to Rupal for passing her OPE! Great work, Rupal!

[04/15] Congrats to Jed and Marlan for being awarded UMN summer research fellowships and UROP research awards!

[04/07] Rupal presents our work at the 2022 Jeannette Brown lectureship!

[01/15] Jed Jaworski and Marlan Witte join the lab. Welcome!

2021:

[12/08] Congrats to Lauren for passing her OPE! Great work, Lauren!

[11/8] Our first group of graduate students join the lab! Welcome Alejandra Acevedo, Rupal Baliyan, and Lauren Feden!

[09/27] Balthazar (aka Glovebox 1) and Bibble (aka Glovebox 2) join the lab from MBraun, Inc.

[08/27] The Bailey lab opens its doors! We have a beautiful space on the 3rd floor of Smith overlooking the Scholars Walk!