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People

	Ryan MacDonell Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science Ryan received his B.Sc. Honours Chemistry from Carleton University in 2014. He moved down the Rideau Canal to work on his Ph.D. at the University of Ottawa with Michael Schuurman (National Research Council Canada), which he completed in early 2020. He then moved to Sydney, Australia, to work as a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Ivan Kassal at the University of Sydney, before returning to his home province of Nova Scotia in 2023 to work as an assistant professor at Dalhousie.
	Jongkwon Ha Postdoctoral Fellow Jongkwon completed his B.Sc. at Ulsan National Institute of Technology (UNIST) in South Korea in 2016. He then stayed at UNIST to pursue a Ph.D. with Prof. Seung Kyu Min on nonadiabatic dynamics based on exact factorization and machine learning. He completed his Ph.D. in 2022 and stayed briefly at UNIST as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2023, he joined the MacDonell Group to work on developing analog quantum simulation techniques for photochemical dynamics. In September 2023, he earned a 1-year fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea to continue his work at Dalhousie.
	Edith Leal-Sánchez Postdoctoral Fellow Edith completed her B.Chem. at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2019. She remained at UNAM for her Ph.D., studying quantum molecular dynamics with Prof. Jesús Hernández Trujillo. After successfully defending her Ph.D. in late 2023, she joined the MacDonell Group as a postdoctoral fellow to work on hybrid digital quantum simulation algorithms for vibronic systems.
	Siri Williamson Masters Student Siri completed her B.Sc. in chemistry and physics at Carleton University in 2023. There, she worked on her Honours research project with Chris Rowley on the simulation of methane adsorption in covalent organic frameworks. She joined the group in Fall 2024, and she is working on the analog quantum simulation of chemical systems.
	Katlyn Near Honours Student Katlyn is a student in the Department of Chemistry at Dal. She started her B.Sc. in 2021, and worked in the group in 2023-2024 as a research assistant. She has returned in 2024 to continue her project focusing on visualizing and identifying trends in projections of conical intersection seams.
	Fanny Vain Honours Student Fanny is a student in the Department of Chemistry at Dal. She started her B.Sc. in 2021. Her Honours project is focused on the role of property conservation in digital quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry.

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Group photos

July 2024

From left to right: Sohan, Edith, Ryan, Jongkwon, Alex

April 2024

From left to right: Ryan, Edith, Katlyn, Jongkwon

June 2023

From left to right: Jongkwon, Ryan, Veronika

Group alumni

Name	Last group position	Time in group	Current position
Veronika Keras	Summer research student	May-Aug. 2023	Completing B.Sc. at Dal
Alex MacDonald	Summer research student	May-Aug. 2024	Honours student in Veinot Group (Dal)
Sohan Sanjeev	Summer research student	May-Aug. 2024	Completing B.Sc. at Dal