Rachel Kurchin
Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Kurchin is an Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Materials Science and Engineering department, focusing on energy materials and open-source scientific software. She holds a BS in Physics from Yale (magna cum laude), an MPhil in Materials Science from Cambridge, and a PhD in Materials Science from MIT, underscoring a strong interdisciplinary foundation. Over eight years, she has progressed from graduate research at MIT's Photovoltaics Laboratory to postdoctoral work at CMU and now independent faculty leadership. In addition to her research, she serves as an editor for the Journal of Open Source Software, reflecting a commitment to reproducible research and community-driven tools. Based in Pittsburgh, she maintains rkurchin.github.io with current publications and CV, signaling proactive, transparent dissemination of her work. Her career blends experimental insight with computational approaches, and she collaborates across academic and national-lab ecosystems to advance energy-material solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Physics (Intensive), 3.9/4.0, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science, Physics (Intensive), 3.9/4.0, magna cum laude at Yale UniversityMaster of Philosophy (MPhil), Materials Science, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Materials Science at Cambridge University
Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (167)
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chemistry10
open-access10
julia10
atomic10
numerical-analysis10
reaction10
academia9
density-functional-theory9
computational-chemistry9
julian9
genomics9
ab-initio9
machine-learning9
modeling9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BattModels/BattModels.github.io
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Venkat Viswanathan's Electrochemical Energy Group at UM
Contributions:7 reviews, 109 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 3 months
group-website
Chemellia/AtomicGraphNets.jl
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Atomic graph models for molecules and crystals in Julia
Contributions:7 reviews, 302 commits, 87 PRs in 2 years 7 months
moleculescrystalsgraphjuliaatomic
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