About
HPC systems engineer; computational chemist
Office: Aquia Building
Phone: (703) 000-0000
Email: address
EDUCATION
- B.A. in Physics from Berea College
- Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designing and integrating high-performance computing (HPC) systems as a systems engineer
- Managing HPC resources as a system administrator
- Providing technical support on HPC to GMU faculty and students
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Developing tools to study molecular clusters
- Computational characterization of hydrogen-bonded molecular clusters
- Modeling the nucleation and growth of sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere
BIO
Berhane Temelso is computer systems engineer at GMU. Prior to his start at GMU in late July 2020, he was a senior HPC system adminstrator and facilitator at College of Charleston (CofC). He is a computational chemist by training and he has worked as a research scientist and HPC system adminsitrator for MERCURY Consortium at Furman University, Bucknell University and Armstrong Atlantic University. He provided technical research support to MERCURY users and promoted the use of HPC in chemistry and other fields.
His research mainly focuses on the application of efficient computational methods to understand the structure and dynamics of hydrogen-bonded systems ranging from water clusters to atmospheric aerosols. He collaborates with experimental groups to solve interesting problems like the structure of small water clusters and the formation rates of sulfate atmospheric aerosols whose cooling effect on the global climate is significant, but poorly understood.
He received his Ph.D. in computational chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA and B.A. in physics from Berea College in Berea, KY. His Ph.D. work explored the ability of the most rigorous first-principles computational methods to reproduce molecular properties derived from experiment.