Dipti Jasrasaria

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Background

Dipti Jasrasaria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute. The Jasrasaria Group uses theory and simulation to understand how microscopic interactions between atomic nuclei and electrons dictate the macroscopic behaviors of materials. We focus on describing accurate nuclear dynamics and their interplay with many-body interactions to model optoelectronic, dynamical, and transport phenomena in materials systems under experimentally relevant conditions.

Previously, Dipti was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. She completed her PhD. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley with the support of a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and she received her A.B. in Chemistry at Harvard University and M.Phil in Scientific Computing at the University of Cambridge.

Research topics: Theory and simulation of materials, Quantum dynamics, Optoelectronic and quantum materials

Selected Publications

• D. Jasrasaria, A. Mandal, D. Reichman, T. C. Berkelbach, “Simulating anharmonic vibrational polaritons beyond the long wavelength approximation,” J. Chem. Phys. 162, 014109 (2025), DOI: 10.1063/5.0235584
• D. Jasrasaria, T. C. Berkelbach, “Nonperturbative simulation of anharmonic rattler dynamics in type-I clathrates with vibrational dynamical mean-field theory,” Phys. Rev. B 110, 064312 (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.064312
• D. Jasrasaria, E. Rabani, “Circumventing the phonon bottleneck by multiphonon-mediated hot exciton cooling at the nanoscale,” npj Comput. Mater. 9, 145 (2023), DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-023-01102-8
• B. Guzelturk*, B. L. Cotts*, D. Jasrasaria*, J. P. Philbin*, D. A. Hanifi, B. A. Koscher, A. D. Balan, E. Curling, M. Zajac, S. Park, N. Yazdani, C. Nyby, V. Kamysbayev, S. Fischer, Z. Nett, X. Shen, M. E. Kozina, M.-F. Lin, A. H. Reid, S. P. Weathersby, R. D. Schaller, V. Wood, X. Wang, J. A. Dionne, D. V. Talapin, A. P. Alivisatos, A. Salleo, E. Rabani, A. M. Lindenberg, “Dynamic lattice distortions driven by surface trapping in semiconductor nanocrystals,” Nat. Commun. 12, 1860 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22116-0