Dr. Cian C. Reeves

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• PhD in Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (2025); Advisor: Dr. Vojtech Vlcek
• MS in Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (2023); Advisor: Dr. Vojtech Vlcek
• BA in Theoretical Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland(2020)

Areas of Interest

• Development of first principle's electronic structure methods
• Many-body perturbation theory and Green's functions
• Quantum defect embedding

Experience

• 2025-Present: Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago
• 2022-2025: Quantum foundry graduate trainee program fellow; Advisor: Dr. Vojtech Vlcek
• 2021-2022: Graduate student researcher, University of California Santa Barbara; Advisor: Dr. Sagar Vijay
• 2020-2021: Teaching assistant, University of California Santa Barbara
• 2019(summer): Undergraduate research intern, Louisiana State University; Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Dowling
• 2018(summer): Undergraduate research intern, Lehigh University; Advisor: Dr. Rosie Reed

Publications (Google Scholar)

• Cian C Reeves, Scott K Cushing, Vojtech Vlček
  Role of effective mass and long-range interactions in the band-gap renormalization of photoexcited semiconductors
  Phys. Rev. B 112 (7), 075105 (2025)
• Cian C Reeves, Michael Kurniawan, Yuanran Zhu, Nikil Jampana, Jacob Brown, Chao Yang, Khaled Z Ibrahim, Vojtech Vlček
  A Practical Framework for Simulating Time-Resolved Spectroscopy Based on a Real-Time Dyson Expansion
  J. Chem. Theory Comput. 21 (14), 6667-6682 (2025)
• Cian C Reeves, Gaurav Harsha, Avijit Shee, Yuanran Zhu, Thomas Blommel, Chao Yang, K Birgitta Whaley, Dominika Zgid, Vojtěch Vlček
  Performance of wave function and Green's function methods for non-equilibrium many-body dynamics
  Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023002 (2025)
• Yuanran Zhu, Jia Yin, Cian C Reeves, Chao Yang, Vojtech Vlček
  Predicting nonequilibrium Green's function dynamics and photoemission spectra via nonlinear integral operator learning
  Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 6 015027 (2025)
• Cian C Reeves, Vojtěch Vlček
  Real-time Dyson-expansion scheme: Efficient inclusion of dynamical correlations in nonequilibrium spectral properties
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226902 (2024)