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The University of California, Merced is a dynamic new university campus in Merced, California, which opened in 2005 as the tenth campus of the University of California and the first American research university in the 21st century. In a period of rapid expansion, UC Merced is located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, within driving distance of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada, the Bay Area, and the Monterey peninsula (while having a much smaller cost of living than our big-city neighbors). Our students carry out a range of interdisciplinary research and have access to major facilities on campus, such as computing clusters, electron microscopy, nanofabrication, and NMR. We also collaborate with nearby institutions such as Stanford, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz. The University of California, Merced is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. We strive to create a welcoming, family-friendly community, while building a culture of research excellence.
We currently have six faculty members working in electronic structure theory: Hratchian, Isborn, Pribram-Jones, and Shi in chemistry and chemical biology; Nowadnick in materials and biomaterials science and engineering; and Strubbe in physics. Hratchian, Isborn, Pribram-Jones, Shi, and Strubbe have established a Center for Chemical Computation and Theory (http://cccat.ucmerced.edu) funded by the Department of Energy. Strubbe and Pribram-Jones are additionally part of the Consortium for High Energy Density Science (http://cfheds.ucmerced.edu) in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other partners. We work with other centers on campus including the NASA-funded Merced nAnomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (http://maces.ucmerced.edu). Our campus will be hosting the Electronic Structure Workshop in June 2021 (https://physics.ucmerced.edu/electronic-structure-workshop).
We invite applications from students interested in performing their PhD research with us. Doctoral students in good standing are provided a five-year funding guarantee, including a stipend and payment of tuition. Teaching assistantships normally provide initial funding, which will be supplemented by research funding, fellowships, or other forms of financial assistance.
Application deadlines are Jan. 15 though earlier applications are encouraged and will receive priority review. A limited number of application fee waivers are available to qualified applicants. Applications are to the PhD program rather than an individual professor, but prospective students are highly encouraged to contact faculty of interest. For more information on the specific programs, see:
Prospective students are invited to join webinars to learn more about these programs and ask questions.
Faculty working in electronic structure:
Prof. Hrant Hratchian, chemistry, https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/hhratchian, Developments in quantum chemistry and potential energy surface exploration; computational inorganic chemistry; mechanistic study and rational design of transition metal catalysts.
Prof. Christine Isborn, chemistry, https://sites.ucmerced.edu/cisborn, Developing and applying electronic structure theory, molecular dynamics and QM/MM methods to the modeling of charge transfer, optical spectroscopy, and photochemistry or molecules and materials in complex environments.
Prof. Elizabeth Nowadnick, materials and biomaterials science and engineering, and physics, https://sites.ucmerced.edu/bnowadnick, Computational materials science, complex oxides, ferroelectrics, energy materials.
Prof. Aurora Pribram-Jones, chemistry and physics, https://www.hypugaea.com, Developing and analyzing static and time-dependent density functional theory, particularly their thermal and ensemble versions; applying density functional and semiclassical methods to atomic and molecular properties, modeling of complex alloys, and studies of warm dense matter systems.
Prof. Liang Shi, chemistry, https://shi-theory-group.github.io, Developing and applying multi-scale modeling methods to understand the structure, dynamics and spectroscopy of complex condensed-phase molecular systems.
Prof. David Strubbe, physics and chemistry, http://sail.ucmerced.edu, Computational and theoretical condensed-matter physics and chemistry; excited-state electronic-structure methods, 2D materials, photovoltaics, amorphous materials, scientific code development for high-performance computing.