Group Members
Investigator
Laura Gagliardi
email: lgagliardi@uchicago.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar
Administrator
Nsa Druinaud
email: hernsa@uchicago.edu
Staff Scientist
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
Postdoctoral Researchers
Paul Calio
email: pcalio@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. Bradley University (2015)
M.S. University of Chicago (2016)
Ph.D. University of Chicago (2020)
research:
Multireference Electronic Structure, Molecular Dynamics, MOFs
Dario Campisi
email: campisi@uchicago.edu
education:
BSc University of Palermo (Italy)
MSc University of Palermo (Italy)
PhD Leiden University (the Netherlands)
research:
DFT, Machine Learning, Catalysis, Astrochemistry, Cosmochemistry
Ruhee D’Cunha
email: rdcunha@uchicago.edu
education:
Int. M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2016)
Ph.D. Virginia Tech (2021)
research:
Electronic Structure, Quantum Computing
Soumi Haldar
email: soumi09@uchicago.edu
education:
B.Sc. University of Calcutta (2014)
M.Sc. West Bengal State University (2016)
Ph.D. IIT Bombay (2021)
research:
Electronic Structure, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing
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
Arup Sarkar
email: arups@uchicago.edu
education:
B.Sc. University of Calcutta (2012)
M.Sc. University of Calcutta (2014)
PhD: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2021)
research:
Electronic Structure Methods, Actinides, Magnetic Materials
Gautam Stroscio
email: gstroscio@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. University of Chicago (2014)
M.S. California Institute of Technology (2018)
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology (2021)
research:
Actinide Chemistry, MOFs
Graduate Students
Valay Agarawal
email: valayagarawal@uchicago.edu
education:
Integrated M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, (2021)
research:
Electronic Structure, Machine Learning, Classical Simulations, Quantum Computing
Saumil Chheda
email: chhed008@umn.edu
education:
B. Chem. Eng., Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, India (2018)
research:
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Teffanie Goh
email: tgoh@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (2020)
Daniel King
email: king1305@uchicago.edu
education:
B.A. Chemistry and Physics, St. Olaf College (2019)
research:
Machine Learning, Catalysis
Abhishek Mitra
email: mitra054@uchicago.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
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
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
Noah Dohrmann
Undergraduate Researcher (2021)
email: ndohrmann@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago (2023)
research:
MOFs, Catalysis
Maxwell Taub
Undergraduate Researcher (2021)
email: maxwelltaub@uchicago.edu
education:
B.S. Chemistry, University of Chicago (2022)
research:
Transition Metal Complexes, Catalysis
Previous Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
WooSeok Jeong (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea)
Varinia Bernales (Dow Chemical, Midland, MI)
Eugeniuz Berdnarz (Amsterdam)
Hakan Demir (University of Houston)
Carlo Alberto Gaggioli (University of Chicago)
Daniel J. Grant (Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN)
Daniel Hagberg (Lund)
Emmanuel Haldoupis (BASF)
Stefan Huber (Ruhr-Universität Bochum )
Ivan Infante (Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy)
WooSeok Jeong (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea)
Navneet Khetrapal (University of Nebraska)
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)
Meagan Oakley (University of Alberta, Edmonton)
Samuel Odoh (University of Nevada, Reno)
Dale Pahls (Argonne National Laboratory)
Nora Planas Roure (Barcelona)
Davide Presti (Cineca)
Juraj Raab (SICPA)
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)
Francesco 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)
Anushrut Mishra
Abdul Rehaman Moughal Shahi (Bengaluru Karnataka India)
Hung Pham (Columbia University)
C. Prinzivalli (Padova)
Prachi Sharma (University of Washington)
Matt Simons (Dow Chemical Company)
Debmalya Ray (PNNL)
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
Youngsu Shin, 2020
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