Education: Postdoctoral fellowship, 2009-2012 — Stanford University Ph.D., 2009 — University of Washington M.S., 2005 — University of Washington B.S., 2001 — University of San Francisco

Theoretical chemistry; developing and applying electronic structure theory, molecular dynamics and QM/MM methods to the modeling of photochemistry and solvation.

Wang, L., Isborn, C. M., & Markland, T. E. (2016). Chapter Fifteen - Simulating Nuclear and Electronic Quantum Effects in Enzymes. In G. A. Voth, Computational Approaches for Studying Enzyme Mechanism Part A (Vol. 577, p. 389 - 418). Academic Press. Website Abstract Provorse, M. R., Peev, T., Xiong, C., & Isborn, C. M. (2016). Convergence of Excitation Energies in Mixed Quantum and Classical Solvent: Comparison of Continuum and Point Charge Models. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120, 12148-12159. Website Abstract Provorse, M. R., & Isborn, C. M. (2016). Electron dynamics with real-time time-dependent density functional theory. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 116, 739–749. Website Abstract Whittleton, S. R., Sosa Vazquez, X. A., Isborn, C. M., & Johnson, E. R. (2015). Density-functional errors in ionization potential with increasing system size. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 142, 184106. Website Provorse, M. R., Habenicht, B. F., & Isborn, C. M. (2015). Peak-Shifting in Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 11, 4791-4802. Website Abstract Sosa Vazquez, X. A., & Isborn, C. M. (2015). Size-dependent error of the density functional theory ionization potential in vacuum and solution. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 143, 244105. Website