Matt Zwier at UIUC

This is Matthew Zwier's page at the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I have matriculated from the labs of Dr. Brent P. Krueger at Hope College and Dr. Benjamin J. McCall at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

In Dr. Krueger's lab, I most performed the bulk of the implementation of a computational method designed to link molecular dynamics (MD) and quantum mechanics (QM) simulations to linear and non-linear electronic spectroscopy. The image at the right is a laser dye solvated in methanol, generated from an MD trajectory currently eating 4TB on NCSA's mass storage system. Our research was the subject of a cover story of Access Magazine, NCSA's quarterly newsletter. In Dr. McCall's lab, I constructed a data acquisition system for continuous-wave cavity ringdown spectroscopy and performed a theoretical investigation into the potential spectroscopic features of protonated methane, CH₅⁺.

I am currently employed with the scientific computing division of the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois, specializing in programming projects which exist at the interface between traditional computer support and scientific computing.