Biography
Dhara Trivedi was born and grew up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. She received her Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Physics, from Gujarat University in India. Trivedi earned her PhD in Physics from University of Rochester in 2015. Under the guidance of Prof. Oleg V. Prezhdo, her doctoral research focused on the timedomain density functional theory to model non-adiabatic molecular dynamics in various nanoscale systems. In the period of 2015-2018, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate in George Schatz's group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. During this time, she worked on applications of plasmonics properties of nanoscale systems. In 2018 she joined the Physics Department at 鶹Ƶ as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She began as an Assistant Professor at 鶹Ƶ in 2019.
Education Background
Ph.D. - 2015 University Of Rochester
M.Sc, B.Sc - Gujarat University
Experience
- Postdoctoral Scholar Northwestern University, 2018
- Editorial Advisory Board of J of Phys Chem Lett (2025 - present)
- NSF ACCESS Research Advisory Committee Member (2023 - present)
- DOE CINT User Executive Committee Member (2025 - present)
Courses Taught
- PH669 - Quantum Mechanics
- PH663 - Electromagetism
- PH661 - Classical Mechanics
- PH681 - Specialized Topics in Physics
Research Interests
- Charge and energy transfer in various large scale systems (e.g.: metals, semi- conductors, Perovskites, 2D materials and their interfaces)
- Plasmon-based hybrid systems
- Characterization of materials
Current Research
Our research efforts aim to understand, tailor, and manipulate the atomistic level description of a system with the development and implementation of quantum-classical dynamics. It explores the details of underlying processes that influence this system, providing a better insight into the cutting edge experimental research and have high potential to impact the society by enabling new technologies or by improving the existing ones.
Publications
- M. Hassan, R. Stanton, J. Secora, D. Trivedi, and S. Andreescu, Ultra-Fast Removal of Phosphate from Eutrophic Waters using Cerium-based Metal-Organic Framework, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 52788, 2020.
- D. J. Trivedi, B. Barrow, and G. C. Schatz, Understanding the Chemical Contribution to the Enhancement Mechanism in SERS: Connection with Hammett Parameters, J. Chem. Phys. (Invited), 153, 124706, 2020.
- S. Agrawal, W. Lin, O. V. Prezhdo, and D. J. Trivedi, Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics of Charge Carriers in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets, J. Chem. Phys., 153, 054701, 2020.
- D. Wang, M. Bourgeois, W. Lee, R. Li, D. Trivedi, M. Knudson, W. Wang, G. C. Schatz, T. W. Odom, “Stretchable Nanolasing from Hybrid Quadrupole Plasmons” Nano Lett., 18 (7), 4549 (2018).
- D. Trivedi, D. Wang, T. W. Odom, G. C. Schatz, “Model for Describing Plasmonic Nanolasers using Maxwell-Liouville Equations with Finite-Difference-Time-Domain” Phys. Rev. A, 96, 053825 (2017).
- S. Pal, D. Trivedi, A. V. Akimov, B. Aradi, T Frauenheim, O. V. Prezhdo, “Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics for Thousand Atom Systems: A Tight-Binding Approach toward PYXAID” J. Chem. Theory and Comp., 12 (4), 1436 (2016).
- S. Dong, D. Trivedi, S. Chakrabortty, T. Kobayashi, Y. Chan, O. V. Prezhdo, Z. Loh, “Observation of an Excitonic Quantum Coherence in CdSe nanocrystals” Nano Lett., 15 (10), 6875 (2015).
- A. V. Akimov, D. Trivedi, L. Wang, O. V. Prezhdo, “Analysis of the Trajectory Surface Hopping Method from the Markov State Model Perspective” J. Phys. Soc., 84(9), 094002 (2015).
- D. Trivedi, O. V. Prezhdo, “Decoherence Allows Model Reduction in Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations” J. Phys. Chem. A, 119 (33), 8846 (2015).
- D. Trivedi, L. Wang, O. V. Prezhdo, “Auger-Mediated Electron Relaxation is Robust to Deep Hole Traps: TimeDomain Ab Initio Study of CdSe Quantum Dots”, Nano Lett., 15 (3), 2086 (2015).
- L. Wang, D. Trivedi, O. V. Prezhdo, “Global Flux Surface Hopping Approach for Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics” J. Chem. Theory and Comp., 10 (9), 3598 (2014).
- P. Li, D. Trivedi, H. Dery, “Spin-Dependent Optical Properties in Strained Silicon and Germanium” Phys. Rev. B, 87, 115203 (2013).
- F. Pezzoli, F. Bottegoni, D. Trivedi, F. Ciccacci, A. Giorgioni, P. Li, S. Cecchi, E. Grilli, Y. Song, M. Guzzi, H. Dery, and G. Isella “Optical Spin Injection and Spin Lifetime in Ge Heterostructures” Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 156603 (2012).
Book Chapters:
- B. Barrow, D. Trivedi, “Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies of Excited State Dynamics at Nanoscale Interfaces” in ACS Symposium Series Computational Photocatalysis: Modeling of Photophysics and Photochemistry at Interfaces (In Print) (2019), Edited by Dmitri Kilin
- L. Wang, R. Long, D. Trivedi, O. V. Prezhdo, “TimeDomain Ab Initio Modeling of Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Nanomaterials” in book Green Processes for Nanotechnology, ISBN: 978-3-319-15460 Springer International Publishing (2015).