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Congratulations, Dr. Srijan Bhattacharyya!

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to Dr. Srijan Bhattacharyya for a great PhD defense! In September, Srijan joins Dipti Jasrasaria’s group at the University of Chicago as a Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry (CCTCh) Postdoctoral Fellow.

Nanako Shitara defends her PhD and joins University of Toronto

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to Nanako Shitara on an amazing PhD defense in Physics! Nanako joins the Izmaylov and Brumer groups at the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral scholar.

Nanako’s thesis work in the group spanned quantum dynamics methods and quantum noise spectroscopy, including the variational quantum noise spectroscopy framework published in J. Chem. Phys.

Tom Sayer begins independent postdoc at Durham as a Leverhulme Fellow

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to Tom Sayer on winning a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to support an independent postdoctoral position at Durham University. Tom joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in 2021 and has been a driving force behind much of our work on generalized quantum master equations and data-driven climate dynamics.

We’re excited to follow what comes next — and to keep collaborating.