Paul J. Robinson
Email: pjr2146-at-columbia-dot-eduResearch Interests
- Cumlant Green's Functions for Polarons
- Theoretical Design of Photovoltaics
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Physics, Columbia University, anticipated 2023 (Advisor: David R. Reichman)
- M.Phil., Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2022
- M.A., Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2019
- B.S., Physics. Cum Laude, Departmental Honors, College Honors, UCLA, 2018 (Advisor: Anastassia N. Alexandrova)
- John Stauffer VURP Fellow, Caltech, 2017 (Advisor: Garnet Chan )
- Junior Specialist, UC Berkeley, 2016 (Advisor: Eric Neuscamman )
Honors
- Best Poster, American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, 2022
- ACS Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award, 2022
- Columbia Upjohn Fellowship, 2020
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2018
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship Semifinalist, 2018
- Dean's Prize for Excellence in Science, 2018
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship, 2016 & 2018
- John Stauffer Fellowship, 2017
- Raymond & Dorthy Wilson Research Fellowship, 2015
- Maggie Gilbert Research Award, 2015
- Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, 2015
Publications
For an up-to-date publication list, see Google Scholar.- P. J. Robinson, I. S. Dunn and D. R. Reichman, Cumulant methods for electron-phonon problems. I. Perturbative expansions. Physical Review B 105, 224304 (2022).
- P. J. Robinson, I. S. Dunn and D. R. Reichman, Cumulant methods for electron-phonon problems. II. The self-consistent cumulant expansion. Phys. Rev. B 105, 224305 (2022).
- , The Significance of Polarons and Dynamic Disorder in Halide Perovskites . ACS Energy Letters 6, 2162-2173 (2021).
- , Towards a Single Chemical Model for Understanding Lanthanide Hexaborides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59, 22684-22689 (2020).
- , Dynamical Bonding Driving Mixed Valency in a Metal Boride. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59, 10996-11002 (2020).
- , Recent developments in the PySCF program package. arXiv preprint (2020).
- , Understanding How Bonding Controls Strength Anisotropy in Hard Materials by Comparing the High-Pressure Behavior of Orthorhombic and Tetragonal Tungsten Monoboride. J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 5647-5656 (2018).
- , Mystery of Three Borides: Differential Metal-Boron Bonding Governing Superhard Structures. Chem. Mater. 29, 9892-9896 (2017).
- , Excitation variance matching with limited configuration interaction expansions in variational Monte Carlo. J. Chem. Phys. 147, 164114 (2017).
- , SmB6- Cluster Anion: Covalency Involving f Orbitals. J. Phys. Chem. A 121, 1849-1854 (2017).
- , Assessing the Bonding Properties of Individual Molecular Orbitals. J. Phys. Chem. A 119, 12862-12867 (2015).
- , Photoelectron spectroscopic and theoretical study of the [HPd(η2-H2)]- cluster anion. J. Chem. Phys. 143, 094307 (2015).