People

Back (L-R): Hung, Jack, P.J., Dave, Chen, Joonho. Front (L-R): Haimi, Shu Fay, Debora, Lachlan, Arkajit.
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- Stefan Andreev
- Marco Baity-Jesi
- Yevgeny Bar Lev
- Timothy Berkelbach
- Chitrak Bhadra
- Eric Yisroel Brumer
- Matthew Carbone
- Yao-Wen Chang
- Andrés Montoya-Castillo
- Patrick Charbonneau
- Andrey Chaves
- Hsing-Ta (Theta) Chen
- Guy Cohen
- James Farris Dama
- R. Aldrin Denny
- Richard Darst
- Param Dhillon
- Kateri DuBay
- Ian Dunn
- Joel Eaves
- Florian Elste
- Andrei Golosov
- Glen Hocky
- Liesbeth M. C. Janssen
- Dmytro Khomenko
- Benedikt Kloss
- Jens Kunstmann
- Martina Lessio
- Bin Li
- Nan Lin
- Lachlan Lindoy
- Peter Mayer
- Matthew Mayers
- Kunimasa Miyazaki
- Debora Monego
- Soumyodipto Mukherjee
- Arun Nanduri
- Lucia Palova
- Heidi Perry
- Hung Q. Pham
- Sy Redding
- Brenda Rubenstein
- Sambuddha Sanyal
- Marco Schiró
- Dvira Segal
- James Shee
- Jun Shimada
- Carl Smith
- John Sous
- Roel Tempelaar
- Troy van Voorhis
- Kuljit Virk
- Dominika Zgid
Stefan was a graduate student at Harvard from 2000-2005. He is currently a Senior Vice President at Two Sigma.
Dissertation: Hydrophobicity, elasticity, and glassiness: The simulation of complex cooperative processes. [proquest link]
Marco was a postdoc in the group from 2017-2019. He is now a Group Leader at ETH Eawag, Zurich, Switzerland.
After a failing attempt to break the longest postdoc record in the Reichman group, Yevgeny got a faculty position at the physics department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
Tim was a graduate student in the group from 2009-2014. He is now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and a Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute.
Chitrak was a postdoc in the group from 2019-2021. He is currently a postdoc at Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Brumer was a graduate student at Harvard from 1999-2003. He now works for the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense as the director of the Strategic Defensive and Space Division.
Dissertation: Quantum and classical statistical mechanics of rough energy landscapes. [proquest link]
Matt was a graduate student in the group from 2016-2021. He is currently an Assistant Computational Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Yao-Wen was a postdoc in the group from 2017-2019. He is currently a postdoc in the physics division at the National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.
Andres was a graduate student in the Reichman group from 2011-2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Patrick was a graduate student at Harvard from 2001-2006. He is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Duke.
Dissertation: Theory and simulation of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium behavior in glasses and gels. [proquest link]
Andrey was a visiting scholar in the Reichman group from 2015-2016. He is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Federal University of CearĂ¡, Brazil.
Theta was a graduate student in the Reichman group from 2011-2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame.
Guy was a postdoc in the Reichman group from 2012-2015. He is now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University.
James was a Simons Junior Fellow postdoc at Columbia from 2016-2017. He now works at a Bay Area start up focused on high skill training.
Denny was a postdoc in the Reichman group from 2000-2003. He is now a Vice President and Head of Computational Sciences at HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc. in Cambridge, MA.
Richard was a graduate student at Columbia from 2007-2012. He is currently a Staff Scientist at Aalto University.
Dissertation: Lattice models of glasses and Potts models for community detection. [Columbia Academic Commons]
Param was a graduate student at Harvard from 2002-2007. She is currenlty a Data Scientist at Tatari.
Dissertation: Slow dynamics and aging in metastable systems. [proquest link]
Kateri was a postdoc in the group from 2010-2014. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.
Ian was a graduate student in the Reichman group from 2014-2019. He is currently a Senior Mechanical Analysis Engineer at ASML in Wilton, CT.
Joel was a postdoc in the group from 2005-2009. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Florian was a joint postdoc with Andy Millis from 2009-2011. He is now an analyst with Deutsche Bank in Berlin, Germany.
Andrei was a postdoc in the group from 1999-2002. He is currently a research scientist at Novartis.
Glen was a graduate student in the group from 2009-2014. He is now an Assistant Professor at New York University.
Liesbeth was a postdoc in the group from 2012-2015. She is now an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Dmytro was a postdoc in the group from 2019-2021. He is currently a postdoc in physics at La Sapienza, University of Rome
Benedikt was a graduate student in the group from 2016-2021. He is currently a postdoc in the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute
Jens was an EFRC postdoc in the group from 2012-2013. He is currently a group leader at TU Dresden.
Martina was a Columbia Science Fellow from August 2017 until December 2018. As part of her fellowship, Martina was part of a team of scientists teaching the Frontiers of Science course at Columbia and conducted research in the Reichman group. Martina is currently a University of Sydney Fellow at the University of Sydney.
Bin was a postdoc in the Reichman group from 2014-2016. He is now an Associate Research Professor of Biology at the University of Science and Technology of China.
Nan was a joint graduate student with Andy Millis from 2006-2012. She is now working a Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks.
Dissertation: Cluster Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: Applications to High-Tc Cuprates and to Quantum Chemistry. [proquest link]
Lachlan was a postdoc in the group from 2020-2023. He is currently a Higher Research Scientist at National Physical Laboratory in England.
Peter was a postdoc in the group from 2005-2009. He is currently Director of Research and Development at ThinkEco, Inc.
Matthew was a graduate student in the group from 2013-2018. He is currently a Software Engineer at Google.
Kuni was a postdoc in the Reichman group from 2002-2006. He is now a Professor of Physics at Nagoya University, Japan.
Debora was a postdoc in the group from 2020-2023. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies in Germany.
Soumyo was a PhD student in the Reichman group from 2013-2018. He is now a Senior Imaging Scientist at Intel.
Arun was a graduate student in the group from 2013-2015.
Lucia was a postdoc in the group from 2010-2013. She is now a Research Fellow at Urban Green Council.
Heidi was a a graduate student in the group from 2004-2008. She is currently a Data Scientist at Hussmann in Portland, Oregon.
Dissertation: Dynamical heterogeneities in sols and supercooled liquids. [proquest link]
Hung was a postdoc in the group from 2021-2022. He is currently a Research Scientist at ByteDance.
Sy was a graduate student in the group from 2009-2015. He is currently a UCSF Sandler Fellow at University of California, San Francisco.
Brenda was a graduate student in the group from 2008-2013. She is now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Brown University.
Sambuddha was a postdoc in the group from 2018-2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati.
Marco was a postdoc in the group from 2013-2014. He currently works for the CNRS as a Research Scientist in the Institut de Physique Theorique (IPhT) of CEA in France.
Dvira was a postdoc in the group from 2006-2007. She is currently a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto.
James was a graduate student in the group from 2014-2019. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jun was in the group from 2005-2007. He is currently President and Chief Scientific Officer at Think Eco, Inc.
Carl was a graduate student at Columbia from 2008-2013. He is currently a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle.
Dissertation: Low-rank graphical models and Bayesian inference in the statistical analysis of noisy neural data. [Columbia Academic Commons]
John was a joint postdoc with Andy Millis from 2019-2022. He is currently a Gordon & Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford University Department of Physics.
Roel was a postdoc in the group from 2016-2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University.
Troy was a joint postdoc with Eric Heller at Harvard from 2001-2003. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at MIT.
Kuljit was a joint postdoc in the group with Mark Hybertsen from 2010-2012. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at KLA-Tencor in Milpitas, CA.
Dominika was a joint postdoc with Andy Millis from 2011-2012. She is now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.