Education:
- (2025) Ph.D. in Physics at UC Irvine, advised by Prof. Kieron Burke
- (2018) B.A. in Physics and Math at Hunter College, City University of New York
Bio:
Steven received his BA in Physics and Mathematics from Hunter College, City University of New York, and his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from UC Irvine, where he worked with Kieron Burke on developing extensions to density functional theory (DFT). He is joining the Vlcek group as an NSF MPS Ascend Postdoctoral Fellow, focusing on Green’s function method development to model excitons out of equilibrium. While still a fervent believer in DFT, Steven is excited to explore Green’s function methods and other (fun)ctional approaches to the quantum many-body problem. When not in the office, he’s probably somewhere outside.
Research:
Steven’s research focuses on developing methods based on the two-body Green’s function to study excitonic physics out of equilibrium. Building on developments in the Vlcek group, such as the real-time Dyson expansion (RT-DE) and machine-learned approaches for evolving the one-body Green’s function, he aims to extend these techniques to the two-body case. He is also interested in downfolding and stochastic methods, which are major areas of focus in the group.