School of Humanities and Sciences
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Grzegorz M. Madejski
Lecturer, Physics
BioMy English-speaking friends know me as Greg. I was born in Poland, but my college and graduate education was in the US, respectively at MIT and Harvard. After spending 14 years at NASA/Goddard, I arrived in Stanford in 2000. My research interests are mainly in extragalactic high-energy astrophysics. This includes (1) studies of active galactic nuclei, and an associated formation and evolution of relativistic jets; and (2) studies of clusters of galaxies, and in particular the processes responsible for the heating of the X-ray emitting intra-cluster gas. Besides taking advantage of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory, I am involved in analyzing and interpreting observations performed with X-ray satellites such as NuSTAR, a recently-launched NASA satellite, sensitive in the hard X-ray band, and Hitomi, a joint Japanese - US X-ray astronomy mission.
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Raghu Mahajan
Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests are wide-ranging:
1) In the context of gravity, how does spacetime emerge from its dual quantum system? How does the dual quantum system encode the answers to questions that involve local physics in semi-classical gravity? How do you avoid the "firewall" paradox in the context of black-hole evaporation?
2) How do you calculate electrical and heat currents in strongly-coupled many-body systems? How do you explain the linear-in-temperature resistivity in high-temperature cuprates?
3) Use tensor network methods to study electrical and heat transport and also the real-time dynamics of systems out of thermal equilibrium. -
Indradip Mandal
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry
BioI am a polymer and materials chemist working at the interface of polymer synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, and functional soft materials. I received my B.Sc. in Chemistry (2017) and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2019) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, followed by a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry (2024) at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, under Prof. Andreas Kilbinger. I subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2025-2026) at the Adolphe Merkle Institute with Prof. Christoph Weder, and I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in Prof. Yan Xia’s group (2026-) at Stanford University. My research interests include ROMP, helical foldamers, mechanochemistry, and supramolecular materials.
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Thomas E. Markland
Professor of Chemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur research centers on problems at the interface of quantum and statistical mechanics. Particular themes that occur frequently in our research are hydrogen bonding, the interplay between structure and dynamics, systems with multiple time and length-scales and quantum mechanical effects. The applications of our methods are diverse, ranging from chemistry to biology to geology and materials science. Particular current interests include proton and electron transfer in fuel cells and enzymatic systems, atmospheric isotope separation and the control of catalytic chemical reactivity using electric fields.
Treatment of these problems requires a range of analytic techniques as well as molecular mechanics and ab initio simulations. We are particularly interested in developing and applying methods based on the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics to include quantum fluctuations such as zero-point energy and tunneling in the dynamics of liquids and glasses. This formalism, in which a quantum mechanical particle is mapped onto a classical "ring polymer," provides an accurate and physically insightful way to calculate reaction rates, diffusion coefficients and spectra in systems containing light atoms. Our work has already provided intriguing insights in systems ranging from diffusion controlled reactions in liquids to the quantum liquid-glass transition as well as introducing methods to perform path integral calculations at near classical computational cost, expanding our ability to treat large-scale condensed phase systems. -
Richard McFadden Martin
Adjunct Professor, Applied Physics
BioRichard M. Martin is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He is emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he served from 1987 to 2008. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and he received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1969 where his advisor was Morrel H. Cohen. From 1969 to 1971, he was a post-doc at Bell Labs and from 1971 to 1987 was a scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is author of two books: "Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods (Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2nd edition 2020.) and "Interacting Electrons: Theory and Computational Approaches" along with coauthors Lucia Reining and David Ceperley (Cambridge University Press, 2016). His avocation since 2008 is the African School for Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA), where he was a founder and organizer of schools each other year from 2008 to 2025, and chair of the International Advisory Panel.
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Todd Martinez
David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Photon Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAb initio molecular dynamics, photochemistry, molecular design, mechanochemistry, graphical processing unit acceleration of electronic structure and molecular dynamics, automated reaction discovery, ultrafast (femtosecond and attosecond) chemical phenomena
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Shaili Mathur
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2021
BioI'm a PhD student in the Eco/Evo track in the Biology department at Stanford. I was at UCLA as an undergraduate, where I majored in Computational and Systems Biology and minored in Mathematics, and also completed my MS in Bioinformatics with Prof. Van Savage through the Departmental Scholar Program. I am interested in using theory and experimental techniques to understand evolutionary dynamics, information processing in biological systems, and complexity in biological systems.
