People

Group Leader

Marivi Fernandez-Serra

Marivi Fernández-Serra

Professor

maria.fernandez-serra@stonybrook.edu
Physics B-139
631-632-8244

Graduate Students

Alec Wills

Alec Wills

  • Machine-learning exchange-correlation functionals
  • Ion interactions in solvation through potentials of mean force.
  • Solvent screening effects on ionic interactions.

Anthony Mannino

Anthony Mannino

  • Electronic screening interactions in metals.
  • Proton transfer in strained ice.
  • Predicting molecular properties using force fields.

Kedarsh Kaushik

Kedarsh Kaushik

  • Topological properties of oxide perovskites.

Aman Singal

Aman Singal

  • Computation of detector response for dark matter detectors using DFT.

Previous Members:

Postdocs

Luana Pedroza

Luana Pedroza

Was a postdoctoral fellow in our group between May 2011 – March 2014.

Currently, FAPESP postdoctoral research fellow
at ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP.

Merzuk Kaltak

Merzuk Kaltak

Strongly correlated systems. Development and application of post-DFT methods (random phase and GW approximation). Determination of model Hamiltonians from first principles.

Graduate Students

Adrián

Adrián Soto

Dispersion interactions in DFT. Analysis and development of van der Waals density functionals. Applications of DFT to detection of elementary particles

Sriram Ganeshan

Sriram Ganeshan

Doctor
Graduated in August 2012.
Currently a postdoc at University of Maryland, College Park.
sriram.ganeshan@stonybrook.edu
https://sites.google.com/site/sriramresearch2012/

Judith Gabel

Judith Gabel

Masters Student
Graduated in September 2011.
Currently in Wurzburg, Germany.

Adrien Poissier

Adrien Poissier

Doctor
Graduated in December 2011.
Currently in Toulousse, France
working at Thales.

Jue Wang

Jue Wang

Doctor
Graduated in May 2011.
Currently in New York, USA
working at Bank of America.

Undergraduate Students

Joe Trollo

Expected graduation: December 2012
with B.S. in Mathematics and Physics

Spencer Thomas

Spencer Thomas

Bachelor of Science
Currently a PhD student
at University of Pennsylvania