Hello! I am Ryan Beck, a computational chemist in the Xiaosong Li research group. My research interests include the modeling of atoms and materials when perturbed with light, and when in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. I have a particular inclination towards the examination of defects within semiconductor lattices, especially as they apply to the ability to harvest and store clean energy more effectively. My most commonly used tool is density functional theory, which I have used on systems both large (300+ atoms) and small.