People

Eric Neuscamman

he/him/his

Principle Investigator

211 Gilman Hall

(510) 664-7827

eneuscamman@berkeley.edu

Eric enjoys reading books and playing games.

Trine K Quady

she/her/hers

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2022

Project: Local Hartree Fock and local correlation methods

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

NSF GRFP Fellow

MolSSI Software 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: Response Properties of Excited Correlation Methods

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.

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.

Dylan Fowler

he/him/his

Chemistry Graduate Student, joined 2025

Project: Bond Dissociation using Coupled Cluster Theory

B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from University of Missouri

37 Gilman Hall

dylan_fowler@berkeley.edu

Dylan likes football.

Nayanthara Jayadev

she/her/hers

Postdoctoral Fellow, joined 2026

Project: Excited State Coupled Cluster Theory

Integrated B.S.-M.S. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.

Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Southern California

13 Gilman Hall

nayanthara_jayadev@berkeley.edu

Nayanthara enjoys reading, spending time in nature, playing volleyball at the beach, and avidly exploring new rabbit holes—currently, the science of drinking tea.


Neuscamman Group Alumni

Postdocs

Lan Tran, Ph.D. (2018-2021) — Lecturer of Physics and Engineering at Vietnam National University

Peter Walters (Miller Fellow, 2017-2020)

Nicholas Blunt (2016-2017) — Quantum Scientist at Riverlane

Graduate Students

Sonja Bumann, Ph.D. (2020-2025) — XXX

Harrison Tuckman, Ph.D. (2020-2025) — Postdoc in the Sharma Group at California Institute of Technology

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) — Documentation Writer at Rosetta Commons

Connie Robinson (2018-2023)

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

Leon Otis, Ph.D. (2017-2022) — Postdoc in the Shee Group at Rice University

Jacqueline Shea, Ph.D. (2016-2021) — Computational Chemist at VeriSIM Life

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

Sergio Pineda Flores, Ph.D. (2016-2020) — Patent Lawyer at Fish & Richardson

Luning Zhao, Ph.D. (2014-2019) — Research Scientist at IonQ

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