Alumni & Collaborators
Montoya-Castillo Group · University of Colorado Boulder
PhD Graduates
| Name | Years | Thesis | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Srijan Bhattacharyya | 2021–2026 | Toward a chemical understanding of small polaron physics | CCTCh Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (Jasrasaria group) |
| Nanako Shitara | 2021–2025 | Theoretical advances toward precision sensing with quantum noise spectroscopy | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Toronto (Izmaylov & Brumer groups) |
Postdoctoral Researchers
| Name | Years | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Sayer | 2021–2024 | Independent Postdoc, Durham University (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) |
| Arian Vezvaee | 2021–2023 | Postdoc, University of Southern California (Lidar group) |
Undergraduate Researchers
| Name | Years | Honors in the group | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Hampton | Summer 2023 – Summer 2024 | ACS Physical Chemistry Award (2024); Toji Fellowship, Department of Chemistry (Summer 2023, Summer 2024) | Asset Management Analyst, Wunder Capital |
| Monica Ochoa | Fall 2023 – Spring 2026 | ACS Physical Chemistry Award (2025); Pfizer La Jolla Academic-Industrial Relations (AIR) Diversity Research; Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, UROP (Fall 2024); Honors thesis: Toward Mechanistic Insight of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Using AlphaFold | Clinical Research Coordinator, CU Anschutz |
| Marcos Ortega-Keshmiri | Spring 2025 – Fall 2025 | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, UROP (Summer 2025) | |
| Patrick Pillans | Fall 2022 – Spring 2024 | Physics Master’s student, University of Northern British Columbia |
Visitors
| Name | Visiting from | When | Work in the group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yiming Zhu | Sophomore, Hamilton College | Summer 2026 (May 21 – July 30) | Ten-week research internship with Pranay Venkatesh and Tianchu Li, learning and applying our quantum dynamics tools (SBtMPS) to understand decoherence in molecular qubits |
| Ofir Blumer | PhD student, Tel Aviv University (Hirschberg group) | Fall 2025 (six weeks) | Worked with Anthony Dominic to merge his ideas on stochastic resetting with our biomolecular generalized master equations, supported by the Rahamimoff Travel Grant Program |
| Lena Niepelt | Master’s student, ETH Zurich | 2024–2025 | Worked with Anthony Dominic. Master’s thesis: Projection operators and decorrelation times in non-Markovian dynamics modeling |
| Jack Good | High school researcher | 2021–2022 | Now an undergraduate at Cornell University |
Collaborators
- Scott Cushing, Caltech
- Kelly Gaffney, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & Stanford University
- Naomi Ginsberg, UC Berkeley
- Xuhui Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Christine Isborn, UC Merced
- Katie Klymko, NERSC
- Amber Krummel, Colorado State University
- Yuezhi Mao, San Diego State University
- Jennifer Ogilvie, University of Ottawa
- William Pfalzgraff, Chatham University
- Becky Rapf, Trinity University
- Justin Sambur, Colorado State University
- Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, MIT
- Shuo Sun, University of Colorado Boulder & JILA
- Norm Tubman, NASA Ames
- Tim van Driel, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Joe Zadrozny, Ohio State University
- Tim Zuehlsdorff, Oregon State University