Mr. Cameron J Cook

Hello, my name is Cameron Cook, and I am a third year graduate student working for Dr. Gregory Beran at the University of California, Riverside. We specialize in free energy assignment for organic molecular crystals, mostly focusing on pharmaceutical systems. 

My research is focused on developing accurate, low-cost methods for finite temperature effects in these systems. This primarily includes the determination of the phonon density of states for large supercells, where we employ numerical approximations to exploit the computational efficiency of density functional tight binding while maintaining the accuracy of pure density functional theory. These approximations yield us accurate free energy rankings, unit cell thermal expansions, and even polymorphic phase diagrams. 

I'm hoping to broaden the application of some of the methods we've developed to include other interesting molecular crystal systems, namely organic semiconducting crystals.