Professor Andrew M. Rappe
Contact
Room 264
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
231 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, U.S.A.
Phone: (215) 898-8313
Fax: (215) 573-2112
E-mail: rappe@sas.upenn.edu
Education
- B.A. Chemistry and Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Harvard University (1986)
- ONR Graduate Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986-1989)
- JSEP Graduate Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990-1992)
- Ph. D. Physics and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992)
- IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1992-1994)
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (1994-2000)
- Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2000-2006)
- Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (2006-present)
- NSF CAREER Award (1997-2001)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1998-2000)
- Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1999-2004)
Appointments
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Director, Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research
Post-Docs
Dr. Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi
Educational Background: Ph.D. in Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Research Interests: quantum mechanics-based simulation methods and their application and extension to chemical systems and materials for energy technologies
Email: farjb@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Bumseop Kim
Educational background: Ph. D. from UNIST, South Korea, B.S. from Ulsan National University of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea.
Research interests: light-induced phenomena and light-matter interaction of low-dimensional material using DFT and time-dependent DFT
Email: suney95@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Xing He
Educational Background: Postdoc, University of Minnesota; Ph.D in materials science, Duke University; B.E. Tsinghua University.
Research Interests: lattice dynamics, phonon anharmonicity, and structural transitions in oxide and halide perovskites; ferroelectricity; neutron/x-ray scattering
Email: xinghe25@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Atanu Samanta
Educational Background: Ph.D. from Material Research Centre (MRC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India, M.Sc. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology–Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, India.
Research Interests:
Email: atanu@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Tan Zhang
Educational Background: Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics.
Research Interests: prediction of topological materials, novel properties in topological materials, topological catalysis
Email: tanzhang@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Songsong Zhou
Educational Background: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, B.S. Central South University, China
Research Interests: DFT simulations of thin films, 2D materials and ferroelectrics
Email: songzhou@sas.upenn.edu
PhD Students
Yutian Bao
Educational Background: B.S. at Xiamen University.
Research Interests: bulk photovoltaics effect, mechanochemistry
Email: baoyt@sas.upenn.edu
Drew Behrendt
Educational Background: B.S. in Chemistry with a Minor in Business from Temple University.
Research Interests: high-throughput calculations, machine learning, first principles-based molecular dynamics methods to uncover emergent material properties and large scale systems.
Email: drewbehr@sas.upenn.edu
Aaliyah Khan
Educational Background: Chemistry B.S. and Computer Science minor from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).
Research Interests: ferroelectrics, perovskites and perovskite-like materials, phase transitions and machine learning.
Email: aaliyahk@sas.upenn.edu.
Fellowship: NSF GRFP
Yu-Ling Liu
Educational Background: M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University
Research Interests: light-matter interaction
Email: liuyl@sas.upenn.edu
Zixun Wang
Educational Background: B.S. in Physics, Jilin University, China. Research Research
ResearchInterests: Nonlinear optics
Email: zixun@sas.upenn.edu
Shihan Qin
Educational Background: B.S., Sun Yat-sen University, China
Research Interests: catalysis, material design, and related methods development such as machine learning
Email: qinshh@sas.upenn.edu
Tianhongyi Zhao
Educational Background: Materials Physics B.S. from Xi’an Jiatong University (XKTU)
Research Interests: ferroelectric materials, condensed matter physics, electron structure
Email: dlzthy@sas.upenn.edu
Ubaidullah Hassan
Educational Background: B.E. in Chemical Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry from The Cooper Union.
Research Interests: Analytical theory and numerical simulation, quantum mechanics-based methods, mechanochemistry, and light-matter interactions
Email: ubaidullah.hassan@cooper.edu
Undergraduate Students
Peter Li
Educational Background: VIPER, Physics B.A./M.S., Material Science and Engineering B.S.E
Research Interests: Ferroelectrics, computational methods
Email: lipeter@sas.upenn.edu
Marcell I. Papp
Educational Background: MLS Scholar, Chemistry and Physics B.A.
Research Interests: ferroelectrics
Email: pmarcell@sas.upenn.edu
Eric Sun
Educational Background: VIPER, Physics B.A./M.S., Computer Science B.S.E.
Research Interests: pseudopotential implementation and theory, condensed matter theory, machine learning
Email: ericsun@seas.upenn.edu
Dominic Willadsen
Educational Background: Chemistry B.A., Physics B.A.
Research Interests: MXenes, catalysis, mechanochemistry, energy
Email: domwill@sas.upenn.edu
Lucy Zeng
Educational Background: VIPER, Chemistry B.A., Material Science and Engineering B.S.E
Research Interests: bulk photovoltaic effect, MXenes, mechanochemistry
Email: lhzeng@seas.upenn.edu
Annabel Helmer-Lynn
Educational Background: VIPER, Chemistry B.A., Materials Science and Engineering B.S.E.
Research Interests: Energy, catalysis, mechanochemistry, materials design, electronic structure theory.
Email: alhelme@seas.upenn.edu
Priva Halpert
Educational Background: B.E. in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union.
Research Interests: catalysis, mechanochemistry, condensed matter theory, machine learning.
Email: priva.halpert@cooper.edu
High School Students Students
Joseph Coppa Rizzo
Educational Background: Sophomore at The Bronx High School of Science.
Research Interests: General Chemistry, Astrochemistry
Email: josephr682@nycstudents.net
