Group Members
Investigator
Laura Gagliardi
email: lgagliardi@uchicago.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar
Administrator
Melanie Burns
email: mfburns@uchicago.edu
Postdoctoral Researchers
Carlo Alberto Gaggioli
email: cgaggioli@uchicago.edu
education:
M.S. University of Perugia, Italy (2013)
Ph.D. University of Perugia, Italy (2017)
research:
Catalysis, Material Science, Actinides
Matthew Hermes
email: mrhermes@uchicago.edu
education:
B.A. Macalester College (2009)
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015)
research:
Multireference Electronic Structure, Method Development
WooSeok Jeong
email: wjeong@umn.edu
education:
B.S. Yonsei University, Dept. of Chemical Eng (2009)
M.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Dept. of Nuclear and Quantum Eng. (2011)
Ph.D. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng. (2018)
research:
Machine Learning, Multiconfigurational Wavefunction Method, Automatic Active Space Selection
Aleksandr Lykhin
email: lykhin@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. Siberian Federal University (2013)
Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno (2019)
research:
Spin-forbidden Kinetics, Catalysis
Meagan Oakley
email: moakley@umn.edu
education:
B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry, University of Prince Edward Island (2013)
Ph.D. Computational Chemistry, University of Alberta (2019)
research:
Quantum Materials, Actinide Chemistry
Graduate Students
Saumil Chheda
email: chhed008@umn.edu
education:
B. Chem. Eng., Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, India (2018)
research:
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Yogev Gluzman
email: ygluzman@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. Chemical Sciences, B.S. Physics, University of California, Merced (2019)
research:
Electronic Structure Methods, Magnetic Structure, Relativistic Quantum Chemistry
Daniel King
email: king1305@umn.edu
education:
B.A. Chemistry and Physics, St. Olaf College (2019)
research:
Machine Learning, Catalysis
Anushrut Mishra
email: mishr153@umn.edu
education:
B.Tech (Hons.) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India (2019)
research:
Actinides, Machine Learning
Abhishek Mitra
email: mitra054@umn.edu
education:
Integrated MSc. (Major: Chemistry, Minor: Physics) from National Institute of Science Education and Research, India (2019)
research:
DMET, Method Development
Riddhish Umesh Pandharkar
email: riddhish@uchicago.edu
education:
B.Eng. (Hons.) Electronics and Electrical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Goa (2017)
M.S. (Hons.) Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, Goa (2017)
research:
LASSCF, DMET, Catalysis
Hung Q. Pham
email: phamx494@umn.edu
education:
B.S. VNUHCM-University of Science (2011)
research:
Electronic Structure Theories for Periodic Systems, Condensed Matter Physics
website:
https://hungpham2017.github.io/
Debmalya Ray
email: rayxx332@umn.edu
education:
B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry, Presidency College, Kolkata (2010-2013)
M.S. Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur (2013-2015)
research:
Inorganic Solar Cells, Conductive Metal Organic Frameworks, Actinide Chemistry
Arturo Sauza de la Vega
email: sauza@uchicago.edu
education:
B. Eng., Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico (2016)
B. Sc., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico (2018)
M. Sc., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico (2020)
research:
Electronic Structure Theory, Noncovalent Interactions, Actinide Chemistry, Quantum Chemical Topology
Thais Scott
email: trscott@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. University of Richmond (2017)
research:
Catalysis and MC-PDFT Development
Prachi Sharma
email: sharm387@umn.edu
education:
5 Year Integrated Master of Science, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India (2015)
research:
Electronic Structure Methods, Actinide Chemistry
Matt Simons
email: simo0642@umn.edu
education:
M.Eng. Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (2016)
research:
MOFs, Light Alkane Activation
Benjamin Yeh
email: yeh00017@umn.edu
education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (2018)
research:
Catalysis, Kinetics
Undergraduate Students, Summer Students, and Visiting Scholars
Youngsu Shin
Undergraduate Researcher (2020)
email: shin0281@umn.edu
education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Minor in Math and Chemistry, University of Minnesota (expected May 2021)
Previous Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
Varinia Bernales (Dow Chemical, Midland, MI)
E. Berdnarz (Amsterdam)
Hakan Demir (University of Houston)
D. J. Grant (Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN)
D. Hagberg (Lund)
Emmanuel Haldoupis (BASF)
S. Huber (Munich, Germany)
Ivan Infante (Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy)
Navneet Khetrapal
Guangqi Li (Columbia University)
Giovanni Li Manni (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany)
Dongxia Ma (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany)
Rémi Maurice (CNRS, Subatech Laboratory, Nantes)
Samuel Odoh (University of Nevada, Reno)
Dale Pahls (Argonne National Laboratory)
Nora Planas Roure (Barcelona)
Davide Presti (Cineca)
J. Raab (Lausanne)
Andrew Sand (Butler University)
David Semrouni (Washington State University)
Kamal Sharkas (Central Michigan University)
Tanya Todorova (Collège de France, Paris)
Jenny Vitillo (Università dell’Insubria, Italy)
Konstantinos Vogiatzis (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Xin-Ping Wu (East China University of Science and Technology)
Jing Xie (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Bo Yang (Brigham Young University)
Jingyun Ye (Clarkson University)
Danylo Zherebetskyy (LBNL)
Graduate Students
Gary Bondarevsky (Madison, WI)
Joshua Borycz (University of Tennessee)
Cesar Beuchat (Geneva)
Rebecca Carlson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Allison Dzubak (Bowdoin College)
F. Ferrante (Palermo)
Soumen Ghosh (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung)
Chad Hoyer (University of Washington)
Kari Kusler (University of Minnesota)
Shuxian [Eileen] Hu (Guangzhou)
Giovanni La Macchia (Geneva)
Laura Largo (Universidad de Valladolid)
A. R. Moughal Shahi (Bengaluru Karnataka India)
C. Prinzivalli (Padova)
Huiliang Shi (Beijing)
Andrew Sonnenberger
Sam Stoneburner (Messiah College)
Bess Vlaisavljevich (University of South Dakota)
Jacob White
Yiyi [Sarah] Yao
Undergraduates, Summer Students, & Visiting Scholars
Michelle Anderson, 2017-2018
Molly Andersen, 2016-2018
Xiaojing Bai, 2020 (Harbin Engineering University, China)
Luke Balhorn
Jua Choi
Dragan Conić, fall 2019 (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Dylan Evans
Jonathan Fajen, summer 2020 (University of Missouri)
Huikang Fu
Tristan Frankus
Dominic Greco, summer 2020 (Breck School)
Nicholas Henry
Carson Ingle
Jan Kadlec, summer 2018
Katherine Kidder, summer 2017
Hyun Jung [Christine] Kim
Drew Koballa
Ben Kroul, summer 2020 (Breck School)
Xiangyun (Ray) Lei, 2015-2016
Ruye Li, 2018-2019
Janey Lin, SURF CTC, summer 2019 (Mount Holyoke College)
Mike Liu
Vanessa Livermore, 2015
Nancy Magee
Kevin Marroquin, REU/LANDO, summer 2016
Alison McManus
Erica Mitchell, SURF CTC, summer 2019 (Taylor University)
Abbas Mulla
Maddy Oakes, summer 2019 and summer 2020 (Central High School)
Samuel Powell, SURF CTC, summer 2019 (Ohio Northern University)
Walter A. Rabanal León, spring 2017
Nick Reitano, summer 2015
Vitor Ferreira Ribeiro
Bella Roussanov, summer 2014 and summer 2015
Arturo Sauza de la Vega, summer 2020 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Carly Schulz
Claire Shugart, SURF CTC, summer 2019 (Carlton College)
Mariano Spivak, August-November, 2015 and April-June, 2016
Ági Szécsényi, spring 2016
Jacob Thelen
Yesenia Vega, 2017-2019
Eva Vos, summer 2019 (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Andrew Walker, 2019-2020
Liam Wilbraham, spring 2016
Peter Winegar, REU/LANDO, summer 2015
Che [Tom] Wu
Sunny Zheng, 2017-2018