#  Graduate Students 

 



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  [### Albert Zhu

 ](/people/albert-zhu) [axzhu(at)g(dot)harvard(dot)edu](mailto:axzhu(at)g(dot)harvard(dot)edu)

 

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##  Alumni 

 



  [### Yina Mo

 ](/yina-mo)Ph.D 2007

 

 

 Current Affiliation: The MathWorks Patent Attorney <http://www.mathworks.com/> Research at Kaxiras group Thesis Title: Theoretical Studies of Growth Processes and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures on Surfaces Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Amanda Peters

 ](/amanda-peters)Ph.D 2013

 

 

 Current Affiliation: Duke University <http://randleslab.pratt.duke.edu/> Research at Kaxiras group: Thesis Title: Modeling Cardiovascular Hemodynamics Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Massively Parallel Supercomputers Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Jun Ren

 ](/jun-ren)Ph.D 2011

 

 

 Thesis Title: First-principles modeling of optically active organic molecules in solar cell devices and biological environments. 

 

 

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   [### Georg Schusteritsch

 ](/georg-schusteritsch)Ph.D 2012

 

 

 Research at Kaxiras group University of Cambridge, England Thesis Title: First-Principles Multiscale Investigation of Structural and Chemical Defects in Metals. Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Thomas Baker

 ](/thomas-baker)Ph.D 2009

 

 

 Current Affiliation: The Boston Consulting Group Principal <http://www.bcg.com/> Research at Kaxiras group Thesis Title: Adsorption on Gold: Effects on Surface Morphology and reactivity Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Ryan Barnett

 ](/ryan-barnett)Ph.D 2006

 

 

 Currentn Affiliation: Imperial College London Lecturer in Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Mathematics <http://www.imperial.ac.uk/> <http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.barnett> Research at Kaxiras group Thesis Title: Studies of strongly correlated... 

 

 

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   [### Ariel Barr

 ](/people/ariel-barr)Graduate Student

 

 

 Ariel received a B.S. in 2019 with a double major in physics and pure mathematics, and an MPhil in physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where she worked on quantum machine learning. Currently, Ariel is pursuing her doctorate in the... 

 

 

      ![Ariel Barr](/sites/g/files/omnuum11321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/efthimios_kaxiras/files/ariel_0.jpg?itok=jyTzQou1) 

 

 

 

   [### Martin Z. Bazant

 ](/martin-z-bazant)Ph.D 1997

 

 

 Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Mathematics <http://web.mit.edu/bazant/www/info/> Research at Kaxiras group Thesis Title: Interatomic Forces in Covalent Solids Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Noam Bernstein

 ](/noam-bernstein)Ph.D 1998

 

 

 Research at Kaxiras group United States Naval Research Laboratory Thesis Title: Atomic Scale structure and dynamics of amorphous-crystal interfaces in silicon: simulations with empirical and quantum-mechanical approaches. Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Stephen Carr

 ](/people/stephen-stephen) [stephencarr\[at\]g.harvard.edu](mailto:stephencarr[at]g.harvard.edu)Ph.D 2020

 

 

 Stephen earned his Ph.D in physics in 2020 studying multilayered van der Waals materials. He works on ab initio multiscale modeling of electronic and atomic structures, with a focus on twisted moiré systems. 

 

 

      ![S Carr](/sites/g/files/omnuum11321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/efthimios_kaxiras/files/stephen_carr.png?itok=-JvO_hDf) 

 

 

 

   [### Nickolas Choly

 ](/nickolas-choly)Ph.D 2004

 

 

 Current Affiliation: Tachyon Capital Management Financial analyst <http://www.tachyoncm.com/> Research at Kaxiras group Thesis Title: Efficient Myltiscale Simulation of Simple Metallic Systems Thesis pdf 

 

 

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   [### Ekin Dogus Cubuk

 ](/ekin-dogus) [cubuk \[at\] google.com. ](<mailto:cubuk [at] google.com. >)Ph.D 2016

 

 

 Dogus currently works at Google. He finished his Ph.D. studying structural complexities in atomistic systems, ranging from disordered solids to catalytic surfaces, in 2016. He worked on developing methodologies to combine first-principles calculations... 

 

 

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