2020 – Present Research Scientist, Li Group, University of Washington
2017 – 2020 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Li Group, University of Washington
Development of time-dependent and relativistic Complete Active Space electronic structure methods, in a local development version of Gaussian – see Research.
2014 – 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Robb & Bearpark Groups, Imperial College London
Part of a collaboration with the Laser Consortium in the Physics Department at Imperial College London, studying ultrafast electron dynamics (a collaboration funded by an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant). Research focused on development of methods and models to simulate both electron and nuclear dynamics on the few-femtosecond timescale. – see Research.
2010 – 2014 PhD Student, Knowles Group, Cardiff University
PhD thesis entitled “Multireference Approximate Variational Coupled Cluster Theories”.
Research focused on improved methods for the approximate solution of the Schrodinger equation under the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, specifically, extension of the ideas of the Linked Pair Functional and Approximate Variational Coupled Cluster theories, developed within the Knowles group, to use a multi-configurational reference wavefunction, thus forming simple approximations to a multireference variational coupled cluster theory. Simultaneously, this was developed as a correction to the Multi-Reference Configuration Interaction (MRCI) method, designed to negate the size-extensivity error.