Dr. Leon Otis

Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, UC Berkeley (2022); Advisors: Eric Neuscamman and Jeffrey Neaton
• B.A. in Physics and Computer Science-Mathematics, Columbia University (2016)

Professional Affiliations

• American Physical Society (APS)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)

Areas of Interest

• Electronic Structure
• Solid State Defects
• Quantum Monte Carlo

Experience

• 2022-Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago (Advisors: Giulia Galli and Laura Gagliardi)
• 2017-2022: Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley
• 2016-2017, Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

Publications

• Leon Otis, Isaac Craig, and Eric Neuscamman
  A hybrid approach to excited state-specific variational Monte Carlo and doubly excited states.
  J. Chem. Phys. 153, 234105 (2020)
• Leon Otis and Eric Neuscamman
  Complementary First and Second Derivative Methods for Ansatz Optimization in Variational Monte Carlo.
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21. 14491 (2019)
• Beatrice Van Der Goetz, Leon Otis, and Eric Neuscamman
  Clean and Convenient Tessellations for Number Counting Jastrow Factors.
  J. Chem. Theory Comput. 15, 1102 (2019)

Awards and Academic Achievements

• CCTCh Research Fellowship in Theoretical Chemistry, 2022
• UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 2017