Mail:
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
The Ohio State University
151 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

Office:
412 CBEC

Email:
herbert@
chemistry.ohio-state.edu

Herbert Group Members

JMH Research Group, June 2023

Left to right:
James Serna, Paige Bowling, Aniket Mandal, Helen Clifford, Brandon Schramm, Avik Ojha, Montgomery Gray, Prof. John Herbert, Dustin Broderick, Josh Shockey, Andreas Koutsogiannis, Ar Fonlon
[Previous Group Photos]

Current Group Members (December 2023)

Prof. Dr. John Herbert fearless leader (since 2006)	Paige Bowling Ph.D. student (since 2019)
Dustin Broderick Ph.D. student (since 2019)	Aniket Mandal Ph.D. student (since 2019)
Montgomery Gray Ph.D. student (since 2020)	Andreas Koutsogiannis Ph.D. student (since 2021)
Ar Fonlon (they/them) Ph.D. student (since 2021)	Avik Ojha Ph.D. student (since 2022)
Fatemeh Nematiaram Ph.D. student (since 2023)	Chance Brandt Ph.D. student (since 2023)
Jess Childress (they/them) Ph.D. student (since 2023)	Brandon Schramm B.Sc. student (since 2022)
Helen Clifford B.Sc. student (since 2022)	Silas Stephens B.Sc. student (since 2023)

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Former Group Members

(Previous Group Photos)

Former Postdocs

Subrata Jana (2021 – 2023)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Prof. Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Zhi-Qiang You (2013 – 2016)
Last sighting in the wild: Scientific staff at Ohio Supercomputer Center (Columbus, OH)
Jie Liu (2013 – 2016)
Last sighting in the wild: Researcher with Prof. Jinlong Yang (Hefei National Lab, China)
Mary Rohrdanz (2007 – 2009)
Last sighting in the wild: Research scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX)
Chris Williams (2006 – 2009)
Last sighting in the wild: Analyst with the Royal Bank of Scotland in London

Former Graduate Students

Suranjan Paul (Ph.D., 2022)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Lyudmila Slipchenko (Purdue)
Ph.D. Thesis: Applications and Development of Generalized Dielectric Boundary Conditions to Solvated Systems in Bulk Water and Air/Water Interface
[DOI]
Bhaskar Rana (Ph.D., 2021)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Todd Martinez (Stanford)
Ph.D. Thesis: Spectroscopic and Dynamics Study of Condensed Phase Radicals Using Density Functional Theory
[DOI]
Bushra Alam (Ph.D., 2021)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Fang Liu (Emory)
Ph.D. Thesis: Quantum Chemical Studies of Charge-Separated States and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy with Time Dependent Kohn-Sham Theory
[DOI]
Kevin Carter-Fenk (Ph.D., 2021)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Martin Head-Gordon (UC-Berkeley)
Ph.D. Thesis: Design and Implementation of Quantum Chemistry Methods for the Condensed Phase: Noncovalent Interactions at the Nanoscale and Excited States in Bulk Solution
[DOI]
Ying Zhu (Ph.D., 2020)
Last sighting in the wild: Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Ph.D. Thesis: Implementation of Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and Applications From the Weak Field to the Strong Field Regime
[DOI]
Saswata Dasgupta (Ph.D., 2020)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Francesco Paesani (UC-San Diego)
Ph.D. Thesis: Ab-Initio Implementation of Ground and Excited State Resonance Raman Spectroscopy: Application to Condensed Phase and Progress Towards Biomolecules
[DOI]
Kuan-Yu Liu (Ph.D., 2019)
Last sighting in the wild: Scientist at Q-Chem (Pleasanton, CA)
Ph.D. Thesis: Generalized Many-Body Expansion: A Fragment-Based Method for Modeling Large Systems
[DOI]
Adrian Morrison (Ph.D., 2017)
Last sighting in the wild: Staff Engineer at Atomwise (San Francisco, CA)
Ph.D. Thesis: An Efficient Method for Computing Excited State Properties of Extended Molecular Aggregates Based on an ab-Initio Exciton Model
[DOI]
Marc Coons (Ph.D., 2017)
Last sighting in the wild: Associate Research Scientist at Dow Chemical (Midland, MI)
Ph.D. Thesis: Solvent Effects for Vertical Ionization Processes in Liquid Water and at the Liquid-Vapor Interface
[DOI]
Xing Zhang (Ph.D., 2016)
Last sighting in the wild: Staff scientist at CalTech (leading development of PySCF)
Ph.D. Thesis: Spin-Flip Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory and Its Applications to Photodynamics
[DOI]
Ka Un Lao (Ph.D., 2016)
Last sighting in the wild: Assistant Professor (Dept. of Chemistry), Virginia Commonwealth University
Ph.D. Thesis: Accurate and Efficient Quantum Chemistry Calculations for Noncovalent Interactions in Many-Body Systems
[DOI]
Zach Holden (Ph.D., 2015)
Last sighting in the wild: Lecturer (Dept. of Chemistry), Tennessee Tech
Ph.D. Thesis: Long-Range Effects in QM/MM Calculations: Ewald Summation in Non-Minimal Basis Sets
[DOI]
Ryan Richard (Ph.D., 2013)
Last sighting in the wild: Scientist II, Ames Lab (Ames, IA)
Ph.D. Thesis: Increasing the Computational Efficiency of ab Initio Methods with Generalized Many-Body Expansions
[DOI]
Adrian Lange (Ph.D., 2012)
Last sighting in the wild: Senior Data Scientist and Machine Learning Lead at Evozyne (Chicago, IL)
Ph.D. Thesis: Multi-Layer Methods for Quantum Chemistry in the Condensed Phase: Combining Density Functional Theory, Molecular Mechanics, and Continuum Solvation Models
[DOI]
Leif Jacobson (Ph.D., 2011)
Last sighting in the wild: Senior Principal Scientist at Schrödinger, Inc. (New York City)
Ph.D. Thesis: Approximating Many-Body Induction to Efficiently Describe Molecular Liquids and Clusters with Improved Accuracy
[DOI]
Shoumik Chatterjee (M.S., 2008)
M.S. Thesis: Charge Transfer Contamination is Bianthyrl and Cyclophanes Using Conventional TD-DFT and Subsequent Reduction in CT Contamination Using a Long-Range-Corrected Functional

Former Undergraduate Students

Chunyu (Agnes) Hu (2022–2023)

Sharique Ahmed (2021)
Last sighting in the wild: B.Sc. student in computer science at Ohio Wesleyan University

Andrew Rossi (2019–2020)
Last sighting in the wild: Ph.D. student with David Masiello (University of Washington)

Daniel Beckett (2013–2014)
Last sighting in the wild: Postdoc with Prof. Greg Voth (University of Chicago)

Ben Albrecht (2012–2013)
Winner of a Denman Forum poster award
Last sighting in the wild: Working at Cray, Inc. (Seattle, WA)

Zach Lukaszek (2011)

Mark Hilkert (2008–2009)

Katie Martins (2008–2009)

Adrian Lange (2006–2007)

Dan Poole (2006–2007)
Last sighting in the wild: Assistant Professor of Teaching (Dept. of Mathematics), Ohio State University

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