Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Computational Materials Scientist
Hi! I am a computational materials scientist with 8+ years of experience in DFT/DFPT, electronic and thermal transport, and materials discovery. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, current research includes screening dielectrics for advanced node technologies (in collaboration with R&D industry partners), developing AIMD/MLIP workflows for amorphous thermal transport, and topology-analysis workflows for an ARPA-E permanent-magnet project. At the University of Warwick, I developed a DFT/DFPT-based workflow that reduced deformation potential calculation cost by at least 20× while retaining ab initio accuracy.
Selected work on how crystal structure and carrier scattering shape electronic and thermoelectric transport. Select a figure to take a closer look.
Featured paper · Thermoelectric transport
Materials Horizons · 2025
First-principles calculations and Boltzmann transport reveal how different carrier-scattering processes govern the thermoelectric response of NbFeSb, with close agreement to experiment.
Low-dimensional materials
Physical Review Applied · Accepted 2026
Going from bulk to monolayer reverses the dominant scattering mechanism, revealing how dielectric screening and lattice softening control transport in a layered magnetic semiconductor.
Half-Heusler materials
Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2026
A study of 13 half-Heusler alloys identifies the key roles of polar optical phonons and ionized impurities, guiding more efficient predictions of thermoelectric power factors.
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