B.S. Physics, Computer Science, & Mathematics, Vanderbilt University (2025)
Areas of Interest
Condensed-matter and materials physics
Excited-state dynamics and quantum applications
Computational and theoretical methods development
Awards
NSF GRFP (2025)
University of Chicago, PME Graduate Fellowship (2025)
Vanderbilt University, Underwood Memorial award, Yaquiong Xu Best Publication award (2025)
Experience
2025 - Present: PhD Student, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Quantum Science and Engineering, University of Chicago
2021 - 2025: Undergraduate Researcher (Computational Nanoscience, Computer Graphics/ML, Cosmology) at Vanderbilt University (Advisors: Kalman Varga, David Hyde, Robert Scherrer)
2024 - 2025: Summer Research Assistant (Ultrafast Dynamics Group, Theory and Simulation Group) at ELI-ALPS Laser Research Institute (Advisors: Karoly Mogyorosi, Attila Czirjak)
2023: Summer Research Intern at University of Tsukuba (Advisor: Kazuhiro Yabana)
C. Jiang, Samuel S. Taylor, Kedong Wang, Cody L. Covington, and Kálmán Varga Time-dependent density functional theory investigation of the formation of H3+ from alkanes J. Chem. Phys. 163, 214101 (2025)
Samuel S. Taylor, Nicholas Skoufis, Hongbo Du, Cody Covington, and Kálmán Varga Hydrogen adsorption and scattering on graphene with electron dynamics: Effects of incident point and kinetic energy Phys. Rev. A 112, 032812 (2025)
Karoly Mogyorosi, Balint Toth, Krisztina Sarosi, Barnabas Gilicze, Janos Csontos, Tamas Somoskoi, Szabolcs Toth, Prabhash Prasannan Geetha, Laszlo Toth, Samuel S. Taylor, Nicholas Skoufis, Liam Barron, Kálmán Varga, Cody Covington, and Viktor Chikan CH(A) Radical Formation in Coulomb Explosion from Butane Seeded Plasma Generated with Chirp-Controlled Ultrashort Laser Pulsesy CS Omega 10, 24, 25285-25298 (2025)
Samuel S. Taylor, Cody Covington, and Kálmán Varga Quantum effects of Coulomb explosion simulations revealed by time-dependent density-functional theory Phys. Rev. A 111, 033109 (2025)
Samuel S. Taylor, and Robert J. Scherrer What do we learn by mapping dark energy to a single value of w Phys. Rev. D 111, 043534 (2025)
Samuel S. Taylor, Kálmán Varga, Károly Mogyorósi, Viktor Chikán, Cody Covington. Fragmentation in Coulomb explosion of hydrocarbon molecules Phys. Rev. A 111, 013109 (2025)
