Dr. Aaditya Manjanath

Dr. Aaditya Manjanath obtained his Ph. D. from Center for Nano Science and Engineering and Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, and is currently a NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. At NIM he has been working in the area of excited-state molecular dynamics with a focus on studying photochemical reactions. Towards this, he has developed a novel methodology named time-dependent GW (TDGW) molecular dynamics which is highly accurate compared to the usual workhorse for dynamics, time-dependent density functional theory molecular dynamics. He is an active developer of an ab initio all-electron mixed basis code, Tohoku Mixed Basis Orbitals, which is where TDGW has been currently implemented. He is also an active developer of another quantum chemistry package, Q-Chem, to which he has contributed excited-state methods as well as post-analysis tools of excited states. In addition to his interest on excited state calculations (static/dynamics) as well as being a developer of ab initio packages, he is interested in two-dimensional materials and tunability of their properties, lattice dynamics, thermoelectrics, and cement chemistry.