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General Information
Full Name | Harry LaBollita |
harrisonlabollita@gmail.com | |
Phone | +1 (678) 895-8180 |
Education
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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2022 - Wally Stolezel Scholarship
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2021 - Wally Stolezel Scholarship
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2020 - Teaching Excellence Award, GPSA, USA
- Arizona State University Summer Graduate Fellowship
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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
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2016 - 2018 - Math and Physics Department Scholarship, Piedmont College
- Glenn W. and Edna Ellard Scholarship
- Seaborn Ashley and Dana Smith Ashley Scholarship
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2015 - Trustee Scholarship
Academic Interests
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Modelling strongly correlated materials
- Rare-earth nickelates
- Cuprates
- Two-dimensional magnets
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Many-body computational methods
- DFT, DFT+U
- DFT+DMFT
- Quantum Impurity solvers
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Data-driven materials discovery
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Quantum computing for electronic structure methods
Personal Interests
- Hobbies: Tennis, Running, Cycling, Swimming, Golf, Hiking