Kevin Kleiner

As a pre-doctoral researcher with CCQ during spring 2022, Kevin collaborated with Dr. Cyrus Dreyer to calculate correlated-electron excited states of point defects in semiconducting materials using first-principles quantum embedding techniques.

This project with Flatiron fits into Kevin’s computational thesis work as a physics Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC, advised by Dr. Lucas Wagner, Kevin is benchmarking these point defect excited state calculations from quantum embedding against those from quantum Monte Carlo techniques. Kevin is also involved with the UIUC-hosted NSF research traineeship program, DIGI-MAT: “Data and informatics graduate intern-traineeship: materials at the atomic scale.”