Casey Eichstaedt

Casey Eichstaedt

Postdoctoral Researcher-Chemistry


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Casey James Eichstaedt joined NREL’s Materials Science Center in June 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher in Mark van Schilfgaarde’s research group. Casey received his bachelor’s in both mathematics and physics from the University of Central Florida and worked in Michael Leuenberger’s quantum computing and quantum information research group. He continued his studies by entering the doctoral program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville to obtain a doctorate degree in theoretical condensed matter in Adolfo Eguiluz’s research group. There he developed a new method to project Wannier orbitals for materials with entangled band structure and used these Wannier orbitals to study the charge and spin dynamics in the one-dimensional, Mott-insulating cuprates, which culminated in work that gives unique insight that is outside the current paradigm of rationalizing the properties of these materials. He is currently working with Mark van Schilfgaarde to adapt some of the concepts that he developed in his doctoral studies to develop a theory to describe superconducting properties of unconventional superconductors using the state-of-the-art, high-fidelity methods that have been utilized in the van Schilfgaarde research group. 

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Research Interests

Ab initio theory of materials

Quantum materials

Wannier orbitals

Education

Ph.D., Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, University of Tennessee Knoxville

B.S., Physics, University of Central Florida

B.S., Mathematics, University of Central Florida

Associations and Memberships

Member, American Physical Society

Featured Work

Deriving Models for the Kitaev Spin-Liquid Candidate Material -RuCl3 from First Principles, Phys Rev B (2019)

Awards and Honors

Brinkhoff Fellowship (2016–2022)

Summa cum laude (2022)


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