I am a second-year PhD student in the Physics and Astronomy program at Rice University. I enjoy bridging theory and computation in physics, particularly to design and understand solids (or condensed matter systems).

DFT is the workhorse of any modern computational materials, but it is limited by its implementation. Even with High-Performance-Computing centers, the ever-growing demands of materials science makes DFT calculations expensive (sometimes even prohibitely expensive).

I work with a technique called Wannierization that can be applied after an inexpensive DFT calculation, albeit not highly accurate, in order to reduce the complexity of any a posteriori calculation that requires higher accuracy (say interpolation, magnetic-force-theorem, etc.).

Wannierization in itself is an interesting problem, but the main goal of using such tools is to discover new materials with interesting magnetic behaviour (high-throughput searches).

Before coming to Rice, I completed my BSc. in Engineering Physics at Monterrey’s Institute of Technology. My previous research focused on computational optics and quantum billiards. You can read more about it here: doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.109.034203.

Posts

• Solving the heat equation with Markov Chains
• Marginalia Review ⇗
• Mean field theory
• ICTP - Quantinuum Hackathon