People

The Matter lab is a diverse and multidisciplinary group of researchers of different career stages and disciplines.

Our Staff
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Address

421D - Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories,

80 St. George Street,

Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6

Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Electronic structure methods
Quantum computing
Energy & functional materials

Angela Zhao (Group Administrative Assistant)
Address

Office: SF 3305

Research Areas
Chris Crebolder (System Administrator)
Address

Office: SF 3206

Research Areas
Irene Zúñiga (Senior Group Administrative Assistant)
Address

Office: SF 3206

Research Areas
Jingbang Liang (Laboratory Technician and Coordinator)
Address

Office: LM 421E

Research Areas
Mukesh Dodain (Research Group Coordinator)
Address

Office: SF 3305

Research Areas
PostDocs
Mohsen Bagherimehrab
Research Areas

Quantum computing

Mohammad Ghazi Vakili
Research Areas

Quantum computing

Jorge Arturo Campos Gonzalez Angulo
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Quantum computing
Energy & functional materials

Changhyeok Choi
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Energy & functional materials

Leong Shi Xuan
Research Areas
Digital chemistry, electrochemistry, machine learning, nanomaterials
Abdul Aldossary
Research Areas

Quantum Chemistry with Machine Learning

Juan Bernardo Perez Sanchez
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Jiaru Bai
Research Areas
AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Ishrath Mohamed Irshadeen
Research Areas
Polymer Chemistry, Chemistry-informed ML models
Sven Papidocha
Research Areas
AI for discovery & self-driving labs Organic Synthesis
Yeonghun Kang
Research Areas
AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Tsz Wai Ko (Kenko)
Research Areas
Machine Learning for Atomistic Simulations
Marcel Müller
Research Areas

Electronic Structure Theory
Protein-Ligand Docking
Bayesian Optimization

graduate Students
Sai Govind Hari Kumar
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Energy & functional materials

Zijian Zhang
Research Areas

Knowledge representation in AI
Self-driving lab

Andrew Wang
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Energy & functional materials

Ella Miray Rajaonson
Research Areas

Biophysics, molecular computers & other topics
AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Sean Park
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Samantha Corapi
Research Areas

Energy & functional materials

Austin Cheng
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Energy & functional materials

Haozhe (Marko) Huang
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Cher-Tian Ser
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Energy & functional materials

Stanley Lo
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Energy & functional materials

Luis Mantilla Calderon
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs
Quantum computing

Pan Chen
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Karthik Panicker
Research Areas

Quantum computing

Yunheng Zou
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Yuchi(Allan) Zhao
Research Areas

AI for discovery & self-driving labs

Andreas Burger
Research Areas

AI for discovery, Quantum Computing

FuTe Wong
Research Areas
Machine Learning, Quantum Machine Learning, Agentic Framework
Yuma Nakamura
Research Areas

Quantum Computing
Machine Learning
Drug Discovery

Manuel Sebastian Drehwald
Research Areas
Alumni
Postdoc
Mahdi Mazaheri
Davide Avagliano
Kouhei Nakaji
Han Hao
Yang Cao
Sergio Pablo-García Carrillo
Martin Seifrid
Christoph Gorgulla
Felix Strieth-Kalthoff
Carlota Bozal-Ginesta
Chong Sun
Daniel Flam-Shepherd
Zhenpeng Yao
Tony Wu
Jenya Vestfrid
Robert Pollice
Jose Dario Perea Ospina
Luis Martin Mejia-Mendoza
Alba Cervera Lierta
Cyrille Lavigne
Thi Ha Kyaw
Mario Krenn
Jakob Kottmann
Kazuhiro Hotta
Si Yue Guo
Andrés Aguilar Granda
Gabriel dos Passos Gomes
Martha Flores
Sagi Eppel
Matthias Degroote
Zamyla Morgan Chan
Matteo Aldeghi
Graduate students
Philipp Schleich
Marta Skreta
Gary Tom
Michael Lindner-D'Addario
Edwin Yu
Liam Fortier
Matthew Choi
Haoping Xu
Teresa Tamayo
Sukin (Hannah) Sim
Tim Menke
Douglas Mendoza
Phillip W. K. Jensen
Riley Hickman
Florian Hase
Theophile Gaudin
Abhinav Anand
Sumner Alperin