Paesani Research Group

Laboratory for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at UC San Diego  

Francesco Paesani

Office: Urey Hall 3210

Phone: (858) 822 - 3383

Office hour: Friday, 2:00-3:00pm at Tapioca Express (Price Center)

E-mail: fpaesani at ucsd.edu

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Current Group Members

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Postdocs

Undergraduate Students

Xuanyu Zhu

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3226

E-mail: xuz144 at ucsd.edu

Project: Many-body models at different length scales

Group Leader

Ethan Bull-Vulpe

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3226

E-mail: ebullvul at ucsd.edu

Project: Software development for many-body molecular dynamics

Yuanhui Pan

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3202

E-mail: yup044 at ucsd.edu

Project: Charge transport in porous materials

Graduate Students

Vikrant Tripathy

Postdoc

Office: Urey Hall 3238

E-mail: vtripathy at ucsd.edu

Project: Many-body QM/MM

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Cianna Calia

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3226

E-mail: ccalia at ucsd.edu

Project: Molecular modeling of antifreeze proteins

Etienne Palos

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3238

E-mail: epalos at ucsd.edu

Project: Quantum mechanics/many-body methods

Hilliary Frank

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3202

E-mail: hfrank at ucsd.edu

Project: Water adsorption in MOFs

Ruihan Zhou

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3214

E-mail: ruz088 at ucsd.edu

Project: Machine learning and many-body models for biomolecules

Richa Rashmi

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3226

E-mail: rrashmi at ucsd.edu

Project: Quantum dynamics methods for vibrational spectroscopy

Henry Agnew

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3226

E-mail: hagnew at ucsd.edu

Project: Ion hydration

Shreya Gupta

Major: Mathematics-Computer Science  

Office: Urey Hall 3201

E-mail: sfgupta at ucsd.edu

Project: Software for data-driven many-body simulations

Alison Rhoads

Major: Physics  

Office: Urey Hall 3230

E-mail: alrhoads at ucsd.edu

Project: Ice nucleation

Omkaar Kulkarni

Major: Mathematics-Computer Science  

Office: Urey Hall 3201

E-mail: okulkarni at ucsd.edu

Project: Data-driven many-body models

Zoe Solomon

Major: Biochemistry  

Office: Urey Hall 3230

E-mail: zsolomon at ucsd.edu

Project: Biological ice nucleation

Vibhu Singh

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3234

E-mail: v1singh at ucsd.edu

Project: Chemical separations using MOFs

Jiwon Huh

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3226

E-mail: jihuh at ucsd.edu

Project: Data-driven many-body models of proteins

Suman Saha

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3234

E-mail: s7saha at ucsd.edu

Project: Statistical mechanics of complex solutions

Benjamin Savala

Major: Physics  

Office: Urey Hall 3222

E-mail: besavala at ucsd.edu

Project: Quantum dynamics in the condensed phase

Saswata Dasgupta

Postdoc

Office: Urey Hall 3202

E-mail: s1dasgupta at ucsd.edu

Project: Many-body QM/MM

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Yuehua Xie

Major: Biochemistry/Computer Science  

Office: Urey Hall 3201

E-mail: yux070 at ucsd.edu

Project: Software for data-driven many-body simulations

Simran Chaudhuri

Major: Biochemistry  

Office: Urey Hall 3201

E-mail: schaudhuri at ucsd.edu

Project: Data-driven many-body simulations of ion hydration

Shishir Iyer

Major: Computer Science  

Office: Urey Hall 3201

E-mail: shiyer at ucsd.edu

Project: Software for data-driven many-body simulations

High School Students

Miheer Purandare

Del Norte High School  

Office: Urey Hall 3201

E-mail: miheer.purandare07 at gmail.com

Project: Data-driven many-body models from density-corrected DFT

Pei-Te Wang

Ph.D. student

Office: Urey Hall 3222

E-mail: pew018 at ucsd.edu

Project: Machine learning and density corrected DFT models