During National Postdoc Appreciation Week we'd like to recognize the important contributions of our physics postdoctoral scholars. Here are some recent highlights from each of them:
Dr. Bhavya Mishra (advisor: Gopinathan)
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Published a paper on HIV viral assembly in Biophysical Journal in August 2023.
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Co-led summer outreach activity on Coronaviruses for K-12 students.
Dr. Monika Sanoria (advisor: Gopinathan)
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Published a paper on percolation in active fluids in Phys Rev E in September 2022 (and another on arXiv in July 2023).
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Co-taught CCBM summer module on computation and modeling for graduate students.
Dr. Ryan Keeley (advisor: Nierenberg)
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Published a paper “Pushing the limits of detectability: mixed dark matter from strong gravitational lenses” in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (publication date October 2023).
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Presented his research at multiple international conferences including “Cosmo23" in Madrid in September and “Self-Interacting Dark Matter: Models, Simulations and Signals” in Italy in July.
Dr. Tobias Zier (advisor: Strubbe)
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Presented the UC Merced physics colloquium “Ultrafast light and Matter: The two get along!” in March 2023.
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Submitted a paper “Pausing ultrafast melting by multiple femtosecond-laser pulses” to Physical Review Letters in June 2023.
Dr. Rafael Del Grande (advisor: Strubbe)
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Awarded a Frontera Pathways allocation from the Texas Advanced Computing Center entitled “Ab initio excited state forces from GW/BSE and DFPT calculations: applications to perovskites and 2D materials” in August 2023.
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Received a “People’s Choice” prize for his poster “Excited-state force calculations from GW/BSE and DFPT: development and application to organic metal halide perovskites,” at the 35th Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods at UC Merced in June 2023.
