People

Efthimios Kaxiras

Professor

Efthimios Kaxiras was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a BS in Physics and a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1991 where he is currently the John Hasbrouck...

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

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

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

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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Mattia Angeli

mangeli(at)g(dot)harvard(dot)edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mattia's research is centered around the numerical simulation of complex systems using mathematical modeling, first-principle methods and machine learning algorithms. His recent research interests encompass the development and implementation of methods to...

Alex Antonelli

Current Affiliation: University of Campinas, Brazil Center for Computational Engineering & Sciences http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/

Raagya Arora

Postdoctoral Fellow

The work in my PhD dissertation focussed on chalcogenide-based thermoelectric and topologically nontrivial materials . I studied materials with non-trivial electronic topology using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT)...

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

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...

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...

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