People

Joshua Kretchmer

Joshua Kretchmer was born in San Jose, Costa Rica and grew up in Mill Valley, CA. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2009 and his Ph.D. as an NSF graduate research fellow from Caltech in December 2014 under the mentorship of Prof. Thomas Miller. He left Caltech for Princeton to join the group of Garnet Chan as a post-doctoral scholar. After the Chan group relocated to Caltech, he returned to finish his postdoc there. He joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019.

Jordan Hale

Jordan received his bachelor’s of science degree in Chemistry from the University of South Florida – Tampa (2021). He has interests in condensed matter physics and properties of exotic quantum materials. His current research is applying classically isomorphic methods to perovskite systems to understand their charge-transport mechanisms.

Victor Suarez

Victor received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Florida in 2021. His current research interests are in describing electron-transfer in condensed phase systems using path-integral methods.

Mikhayla Clothier

Mikhayla received her bachelors’ degrees in chemistry and mathematics from Erskine College in 2022. She currently works in developing real-time extensions to static electronic structure methods for the calculation of non-equilibrium electron and spin dynamics.

Owen Holt-Frank

Owen received his B.A. in Chemistry and Mathematics at Grinnell College in 2024. His research interests center on resonance (metastable) electronic states and the non-radiative decay processes that depopulate them, such as interatomic Coulombic decay. Current work uses complex absorbing potential equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory (CAP-EOM-CCSD) to compute the energies and decay widths of these resonances, characterizing interatomic and electron-transfer-mediated Coulombic decay in rare-gas–water clusters.

Dan Lotan

Dan received his B.S. in Chemistry and Physics at the University of Washington in 2025. Research interests include condensed matter physics and real-time electron and nuclear dynamics. Current research involves implementation of real-time electron correlation methods and their extensions for including nuclear dynamics and spin generalization.

Former Members

• Yi-Siang Wang — Post-doctoral Scholar. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University.
• Ziying Cao — Graduate Student, 2020–2026. Currently at Salt AI.
• James Zhong — Graduate Student, 2020–2026. Currently at PowerPlan Inc.
• Matthew Rohan — Undergraduate Student, graduated 2026. Currently at Northwestern University.
• Samhitha Venkat — Undergraduate Student, graduated 2026.
• Dariia Yehorova — Graduate Student, 2020–2023. Currently Graduate Student, Kamerlin Group, Georgia Tech.
• Yang Hong — Postdoc, 2020–2021. Currently Senior Computational Scientist, ITaP Research Computing, Purdue University.
• Akash Ram — REU Undergraduate, Summer 2021. Currently Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara.
• Kevin Adams — Undergraduate Student, 2020–2021. Currently Graduate Student, Peters Group, UC Santa Barbara.