Alumni Profiles

Jennifer Coulter

  • Program Years: 2017-2021
  • Academic Institution: Harvard University
  • Field of Study: Computational Materials Physics
  • Academic Advisor: Boris Kozinsky
  • Practicum(s):
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2019)
  • Degree(s):
    B.S. Physics, Rutgers University, 2017

Current Status

  • Research Area: Computational Materials Physics

Publications

Relative importance of nonlinear electron-phonon coupling and vertex corrections in the Holstein model. P.M. Dee, J. Coulter, K. Kleiner, S. Johnston. Communications Physics 3, 145 (2020). doi:10.1038/s42005-020-00413-2

Effects of Structural Distortions on the Electronic Structure of T-type Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. (2020). D.T. Larson, W. Chen, S.B. Torrisi, J. Coulter, S. Fang, E. Kaxiras. Phys. Rev. B 102, 045128. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045128

Metamaterials for Active Colloid Transport. (2020). S. Yazdi, J.L. Aragones, J. Coulter, A. Alexander-Katz. arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.06477

Uncovering electron-phonon scattering and phonon dynamics in type-I Weyl semimetals. (2020). J. Coulter, G.B. Osterhoudt, C.A.C. Garcia, et.al. Physical Review B 100 (22), 220301.

A Theoretical Investigation of Charge Density Wave Instability in CuS2. (2019). Y. Yin, J. Coulter, C.J. Ciccarino, P. Narang. Physical Review Materials 4 (10), 104001

Optoelectronic response of the type-I Weyl semimetals TaAs and NbAs from first principles. (2019). C.A.C. Garcia, J. Coulter, P. Narang
Physical Review Research 2 (1), 013073.

Microscopic origins of hydrodynamic transport in the type-II Weyl semimetal WP2. (2018). J. Coulter, R. Sundararaman, P. Narang. Physical Review B 98 (11), 115130.

Assessing Tauc plot slope quantification: ZnO thin films as a model system.
J. Coulter, D.P. Birnie III. (2018). physica status solidi (b) 255 (3), 1700393. doi:10.1002/pssb.201700393

Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Apr. 2017)
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (Apr. 2017)
APS Women in Physics Group Grant (Nov. 2016)
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (Mar. 2016)