
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
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
