= Postdoctoral Fellow | = Postgraduate | = Undergraduate


Current Visitors

Benedek Goz | | 2024 – 25 | Final-year project, exchange-correlation effects in magnetic crystals

Luke Donegan | | 2024 – 25 | Final-year project, exploring exact conditions in quantum mechanics


qToM Alumni

Isabel Costello | | 2024 | Summer intern, theory of orbital angular momentum

Oisín Cahalane | | 2023 – 24 | Final-year project, superconducting parent compounds

Leon Kerin | | 2023 – 24 | Final-year project, DFT+U+V extensions

Ethan D’Arcy | | 2023 – 24 | Summer intern and final-year project, DFT+U algorithms and photovoltaic simulations

Jan Wawrzynek | | 2023 | Summer intern, magnetic phase diagrams

Sumanta Bhandary | | 2020 – 23 | Now a Design Engineer for ASML in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Pierce Comerford | | 2023 | Final-year project, generalised approaches to DFT+U

David Kearney | | 2022 – 23 | Final-year project, DFT+U+V extensions

David Gavin | | 2019 – 22 | Postgraduate research, simulation of metallic alloys

Grace O’Sullivan | | 2021 | Final-year project, magnetic phase diagrams

Seán O’Neill | | 2021 | Final-year project, molecular magnetic coupling

Eoin Dowd | | 2021 – 22 | Final-year project, linear-response Hubbard U calculation

Sarah Joyce | | 2021 | Summer intern and Laidlaw Scholar, magnetic phase diagrams

Dr Okan K. Orhan | | 2014-2018, 2018-2020 | PhD thesis “Corrective First-Principles Approaches for the Theoretical Spectroscopy of Transition-Metal Systems,” now postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia

Andrew Burgess | | 2019 | Final-year project, neutral excitation DFT and spin contamination

Colm Skwirbat | | 2019 | Final-year project, magneto-optical spectroscopy

Lórien MacEnulty | | 2019 | Drake University visiting summer intern, magnetostatics in DFT

David Gavin | | 2018 – 19 | Final-year project, linear-response Hubbard U calculation

Robert Kinsella | | 2018 – 19 | Final-year project, linear-response Hubbard U calculation

Dr Glenn Moynihan | | 2013 – 17 | PhD thesis “A self-contained ground-state approach for the correction of self-interaction error in approximate density-functional theory,” now research engineer at Invenia Labs

Marie A. McCrory | | 2018 | Final-year project, magnetic fields in atoms

Kevin D. Smith | | 2018 | Final-year project, quantum differential geometry

Cormac Butler | | 2018 | Summer intern and final-year project, theory and application of DFT+U

Alok C. Suresh | | 2018 | Summer intern, theory and application of DFT+U

Sean M. Noonan | | 2018 | Summer intern, neutral excitation DFT

Sean Blackburn | | 2017 – 18 | Final-year project, dilute magnetic semiconductors

Adam Kavanagh | | 2017 | Final-year project, DFT convergence analysis

Nathan Vandervoort | | 2017 | University of California, Santa Barbara visiting summer intern, magneto-optical spectroscopy

Prof. Alessandro Lunghi | | 2016 – 17 | now Assistant Professor at TCD and ERC StG awardee

Sarah Halpin | | 2016 | Final-year project, linear-response Hubbard U calculation

Sean Nolan | | 2016 | Final-year project, linear-response Hubbard U calculation

Dr Emiliano Poli | | 2016 | University of Liverpool PhD student, one-month visit, oxide physics

Kaifeng Niu | | 2016 | Soochow University, visiting final-year project, surface science

Dr Linda A. Zotti  | | 2015 | Now Assistant Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Anne Marie Delaney  | | 2015 | Summer intern, angular momentum and virial theorem

Thomas Wyse Jackson | | 2015 | Final-year project, linear-response Hubbard U calculation

Fiona McCarthy | | 2015 | Final-year project, DFT+U for coordination complexes

Mark McGrath | | 2015 | Final-year project, geometry optimisation using DFT+U

Eamonn O’Shea | | 2014 | Summer intern, magneto-optical spectroscopy

Cillian Dickson | | 2014 | Final-year project, cut-off Coulomb method

Liam Hallinan | | 2014 | Final-year project, the GW approach

Dr Edgar Engel | | 2012 | Final-year project, colour centres in diamond