People

Eric Neuscamman

he/him/his

Principle Investigator

211 Gilman Hall

(510) 664-7827

eneuscamman@berkeley.edu

Eric enjoys reading books and playing games.

Sonja Bumann

she/her/hers

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2020

Project: Embedding Theory in Variational Monte Carlo

B.S. in Chemical Physics and B.A. in German from UC Davis

37 Gilman Hall

skbumann@berkeley.edu

Sonja enjoys traveling, playing soccer, and making blanket nests for her dog.

Harrison Tuckman

he/him/his

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2020

Project: Excited State Coupled Cluster, Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction

B.S. in Chemistry and Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics from William & Mary

NSF GRFP Fellow

35 Gilman Hall

hgtuckman@berkeley.edu

Harrison spends his free time playing piano, singing, and playing games.

Trine K Quady

she/her/hers

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2022

Project: Orbital Optimization in Variational Monte Carlo

B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Portland State University

NSF GRFP Fellow

13 Gilman Hall

trine_quady@berkeley.edu

Trine loves baking whilst she pretends she’s on the Great British Baking Show, camping next to particularly large trees, and playing board games with a ferocity that far exceeds what’s appropriate for the setting.

Conor Bready

he/him/his

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2024

Project: Natural Orbital Bootstrapping in Coupled Cluster Theory

B.S. in Chemistry and Applied Mathematics from Furman University

DOE CSGF Fellow

35 Gilman Hall

conor_bready@berkeley.edu

Conor loves to play sports in his free time, whether that be soccer, badminton, running, or just whatever else gets him outside and active.

Rahoul Banerjee Ghosh

they/them

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2024

Project: Undecided

Co-advised by Jeffrey Neaton in the Physics Department

B.S. in Chemistry with College Honors from the University of Washington

QUAD Fellow

13 Gilman Hall

rahoulbanerjeeghosh@berkeley.edu

LinkedIn

Rahoul enjoys playing RPGs and board games, listening to musical theater, discovering new and experimental things to cook, as well as writing stories & sketching characters for their Dungeons & Dragons setting.

Qasim Javed

he/him/his

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2024

Project: Excited State Coupled Cluster Theory

B.S. in Chemistry with minor in Physics from Lahore University of Management Sciences

13 Gilman Hall

qasim_javed@berkeley.edu

Qasim enjoys reading books, playing and watching soccer/football, and following cricket matches very closely.


Neuscamman Group Alumni

Postdocs

Lan Tran, Ph.D. (2018-2021) — Researcher at Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Physics

Peter Walters (Miller Fellow, 2017-2020)

Nicholas Blunt (2016-2017) — Fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge

Graduate Students

Rebecca Hanscam, Ph.D. (2018-2023) — Postdoc in the Van Voorhis Group at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology

Scott Garner, Ph.D. (2018-2023) — Postdoc in the Hammes-Schiffer Group at Princeton University

Tarini Hardikar, Ph.D. (2018-2023) — Quantum Research Scientist at qBraid

Rachel Clune, Ph.D. (2018-2023) — Materials Science Education Specialist at Schrödinger

Connie Robinson (2018-2023)

Kat Muloma, M.S. (2021-2023)

Leon Otis, Ph.D. (2017-2022) — Postdoc in the Galli and Gagliardi Groups at University of Chicago

Jacqueline Shea, Ph.D. (2016-2021) — Postdoc in the Martinez Group at Stanford University

Beatrice Van Der Goetz, Ph.D. (2015-2020) — Scientist at QSimulate

Sergio Pineda Flores, Ph.D. (2016-2020) — Computational Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Luning Zhao, Ph.D. (2014-2019) — Dalton Fellow in the Li Group at University of Washington

Haochuan Wei, M.S. (2016-2018)

Undergraduate Students

Triet M. Vu (2023-2024)— Graduate Student at Cornell University

Billy Ma (2022-2024)— Graduate Student at UC San Diego

Shiloh Andersson (2022-2023)— Graduate Student at Princeton University

George Liu (2021-2022) — UC Berkeley Alumnus

Shuai Yan (2022)

Brianna Aguilar (2020-2021) — Graduate Student at UC Merced

Elise Gwin (2019-2020) — UC Berkeley Alumna

Isaac Craig (2018-2020) — Graduate Student at UC Berkeley

Paul J. Robinson (2016) — NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Columbia University