Kris T Delaney


Materials Research Laboratory
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
93106-5121, USA

Tel: +1-805-893-8642

kdelaney (at) mrl.ucsb.edu

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Brief Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Physics University of York, UK 2004
MPhys Theoretical Physics with First-Class Honours University of York, UK 2000
Research Experience
Project Scientist University of California, Santa Barbara January 2011-Present
Research Visitor Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
May 2010-June 2010
Research Specialist University of California, Santa Barbara December 2008-December 2010
Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Santa Barbara July 2006-December 2008
Postdoctoral Scholar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign October 2003-June 2006
Teaching Experience
Mentor for "The African School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications" (ASESMA)
Mentoring junior graduate students and international exchange summer research students
Classroom teaching as the primary instructor in tutorial classes for beginning undergraduate students in elecromagnetism and atomic physics
Teaching assistant in undergraduate computational physics laboratory
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Research Biography

Summary of Research Interests

Condensed matter theory and electronic structure methods, including:

Research History

From July 2006 I joined the groups of Nicola Spaldin and Chris G. Van de Walle as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since then, I have been working on applying first principles methods, including density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory and Monte Carlo methods, to study problems of interest in functional materials, including describing the non-radiative loss mechanisms in nitride-based light emitters, designing magnetoelectric materials and studying the electronic structure of rare-earth pnictides and their composites.

Between October 2003 and June 2006 I was a postdoctoral research associate in the groups of David Ceperley and Richard Martin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with applying sophisticated quantum Monte Carlo methods to the high-pressure phase behavior of pure hydrogen.

Prior to October 2003 I studied for my PhD in the Condensed Matter Physics group at the University of York in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Prof. Rex Godby.

For my thesis I was interested in the application of the GW approximation to computing accurate ground state total energies of electronic systems. I also studied the validity of the pseudopotential approximation in GW calculations, and theoretical methods for computing the bandwidth of metallic systems.

The abstract to my PhD thesis can be downloaded in postscript or PDF format. To request an electronic copy of the full thesis, please email me.