Aurland Watkins, Graduate Student

Research

My research focuses on investigating topological superconductor candidate materials via experimental and computational methods, specifically using data-driven approaches to identify promising materials and optimize their synthesis.

Education

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Student in Materials Department, 2020 - Present
Seshadri group

Wellesley College

B.A. in Chemistry, 2016 - 2020
Arumainayagam group

Publications

1. D. Werhahn, B. R. Ortiz, A. K. Hay, S. D. Wilson, R. Seshadri, and D. Johrendt, The kagome metals RbTi3Bi5 and CsTi3Bi5, Z. Naturforsch. B 77 (2022) 757-764. DOI:10.1515/znb-20222-0125
2. S. Klemenz, A. K. Hay, S. M. L. Teicher, A. Topp, J. Cano, and L. M. Schoop, The role of delocalized chemical bonding in square-net-based topological semimetals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142 (2020) 6350-6359. DOI:10.1021/jacs.0c01227
3. C. R. Arumainayagam, R. T. Garrod, M. C. Boyer, A. K. Hay, S. T. Bao, J. S. Campbell, J. Wang, C. M. Nowak, M. R. Arumainayagam, and P. J. Hodge, Extraterrestrial prebiotic molecules: photochemistry vs. radiation chemistry of interstellar ices, Chem Soc. Rev. 48 (2019) 2293-2314. DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00443E
4. E. Mullikin, A. Hay, H. Anderson, N. O'Hern, C. Arumainayagam, Photochemistry vs. radiation chemistry of cosmic ice analogs, Proc. Int. Astron. Union 15 (2019) 361-362. DOI:10.1017/S1743921319009578
5. H. Schneider, A. Caldwell-Overdier, S. Coppieters 't Wallant, L. Dau, J. Huang, I. Nwolah, M. Kasule, C. Buffo, E. Mullikin, L. Widdup, A. Hay, S. T. Bao, J. Perea, M. Thompson, R. Tano-Menka, M. Van Tuyl, A. Wang, S. Bussey, N. Sachdev, C. Zhang, M. C. Boyer, C. R. Arumainayagam, Detection of methoxymethanol as a photochemistry product of condensed methanol, Mon. Notices Royal Astron. 485 (2019) L19 - L23. DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz019
6. E. Mullikin, P. van Mulbregt, J. Perea, M. Kasule, J. Huang, C. Buffo, J. Campbell, L. Gates, H. M. Cumberbatch, Z. Peeler, H. Schneider, J. Lukens, S. T. Bao, R. Tano-Menka, S. Baniya, K. Cui, M. Thompson, A. Hay, L. Widdup, A. Caldwell-Overdier, J. Huang, M. C. Boyer, M. Rajappan, G. Echebiri, C. R. Arumainayagam, Condensed-phase photochemistry in the absence of radiation chemistry, ACS Earth Space Chem. 2 (2018) 863-868. DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00027

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