Experienced surface physicist with 4+ years of both computational and experimental experience in the modeling, processing, and characterization of thin films that have applications in catalysis and electronics. 4+ years experience in material simulation using DFT for applications in heterogeneous catalysis and battery materials. Research-oriented professional with expertise in designing and executing experiments to ensure process improvement using both computational and experimental approaches. Experimental Skills- Expertise in the growth of thin films via e-beam assisted physical vapor deposition- Calibration, optimization, and troubleshooting of surface analytical tools.- Utilization, maintenance, troubleshooting, and improvement of ultra-high vacuum systems/technologies.- X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), Low energy ion scattering spectroscopy (LEIS), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES)- Mass Spectroscopy (MS), Temperature programmed Desorption (TPD)Computational Skills- Research experience in chemical physics, condensed matter theory, and computational chemistry.- Density functional theory (DFT)-based calculations with added vdW contributions.- Nudged Elastic Band Calculations for the prediction of energy barriers.- Expertise in using VASP package to predict material properties.- Electronic structure predictions using Bader AnalysisSoftware- Microsoft Office Package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).- OriginPro (Preparation of Data Plots).- Latex, Python, and Labview.- CasaXPS and XPSPeak for XPS peak fitting.