Biographical stuff

As it says on the previous page, my name is Neil Shenvi; I'm a postdoctoral associate at Yale University in the Department of Chemistry. I was born in Santa Cruz, California, but grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. After Forwood Elementary, P.S. Dupont Middle, Burnett Middle, Hanby Junior High, and Brandywine High School, I attended Princeton University as an undergraduate where I worked on high-dimensional function approximation with Professor Herschel Rabitz. I did my PhD in Theoretical Chemistry at UC - Berkeley with Professor Birgitta Whaley. The subject of my PhD dissertation was quantum computation, including topics in quantum random walks, cavity quantum electrodynamics, spin physics, and the N-representability problem. My wife, Christina Shenvi (née Brown), also earned a PhD in Chemistry at Berkeley, where she studied the regulation of eukaryotic translation with Professor Jamie Cate. We are now at Yale, where Christina is a fifth-year medical student. I am currently doing research on nonadiabatic dynamics with Prof. John Tully.

Christina and I are members of Trinity Baptist Church.

When I'm not in lab, I like to play basketball, run, lift weights, read, and bake. My favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, Dostoevsky, and Camus.