Daniel joined the group in December 2019 as a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.S. in chemical engineering and a minor in physics. As an undergraduate, Daniel primarily worked on modeling LaMer burst nucleation in the Peters group. He became interested in electronic structure theory while using DFT for a computational study on CO2 reduction catalysts in Martin Head-Gordon’s group at UC Berkeley. Daniel’s current research in the Kulik group examines multireference character in approximate DFT and its relation to prediction error
BS in Chemical Engineering, 2019
UC Santa Barbara