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General Information

Full Name Harry LaBollita
Email harrisonlabollita@gmail.com
Phone +1 (678) 895-8180

Education

  • 2024
    PhD, Physics
    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
  • 2019
    BS, Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics
    Piedmont University, Demorest, GA USA
    • Summa Cum Laude

Research Experience

  • 2019 - 2023
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA
    • Designed, performed, and published scientific research papers in computational many-body physics (strongly correlated electron systems).
    • Built and contributed to open-source software and data analytic tools.
    • Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills demonstrated by simulataneously working on several research projects with external research groups.
    • Experience in technical communication evidenced by several published peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations, and courses taught at the high-school and undergraduate level.
  • 2022
    Pre-Doctoral Researcher
    Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute (CCQ), New York, NY USA
    • Contributed several PRs to open-source software developed at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ).
    • Proactively collaborated cross-functionally to design and implement production quality software (in Python and C++) that met computational, mathematical, and physical requirements.
  • 2018
    Research Experience for Undergraduates
    Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA
    • Applied supervised machine learning algorithms as a novel data analysis technique for nuclear chemistry experiments.
  • 2017
    Research Experience for Undergraduates
    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
    • Reserach mirror birefringence for the Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) experiment.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Wally Stolezel Scholarship
  • 2021
    • Wally Stolezel Scholarship
  • 2020
    • Teaching Excellence Award, GPSA, USA
    • Arizona State University Summer Graduate Fellowship
  • 2019
    • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
    • Highest GPA Male Athlete, Piedmont College
    • Scholar of the Year, Piedmont College
    • Math and Physics Department Scholarship, Piedmont College
    • Glenn W. and Edna Ellard Scholarship
  • 2016 - 2018
    • Math and Physics Department Scholarship, Piedmont College
    • Glenn W. and Edna Ellard Scholarship
    • Seaborn Ashley and Dana Smith Ashley Scholarship
  • 2015
    • Trustee Scholarship

Academic Interests

  • Modelling strongly correlated materials
    • Rare-earth nickelates
    • Cuprates
    • Two-dimensional magnets
  • Many-body computational methods
    • DFT, DFT+U
    • DFT+DMFT
    • Quantum Impurity solvers
  • Data-driven materials discovery
  • Quantum computing for electronic structure methods

Personal Interests

  • Hobbies: Tennis, Running, Cycling, Swimming, Golf, Hiking