Welcome to Homepage of Debashree Ghosh

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry in University of Southern California.

I am a computational chemist interested in method development in Prof. Anna Krylov's group. The structure and properties of chemical systems can be calculated accurately by highly correlated ab-initio quantum mechanical methods. My primary research interest is to develop and apply such quantum mechanical methods to understand chemical and biological processes.

Although computational chemistry has made remarkable progress in the last couple of decades, there are various problems of material and biological importance that require thousands of atoms to be considered quantum mechanically and are therefore, far from the reach of computational chemistry till date. Brute force solution of the Schrodinger equation is not possible due to the large number of degrees of freedom. Therefore, electronic structure theorists have made many chemically intuitive approximations.

I have done my graduate studies from Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Cornell University under the supervision of Prof. Garnet Chan. I was working on developing and applying density matrix renormalization group based methods to treat the static and dynamic correlation in strongly correlated systems.