Group

Brett Henderson, PhD student

Brett is an PhD student developing methods to course-grain the calculation of the dielectric constant for nanocomposite materials.  Originally from San Diego, California, he digs the chill outdoorsy vibes of Victoria and says that Vancouver Island is “pretty dope.”  Outside of the lab, he spends his time watching sick movies, kicking back in the mountains, and searching for bomb carne asada burritos wherever he can find them.

Archita Adluri, PhD student

I received my undergrad degree from Memorial University in chemistry and joined the Paci group as a grad student in 2018. My research here focuses is on the electronic properties of nanocomposite materials, specifically molecular nanoparticles in metal-oxide dielectrics.When im not working I love to bake and draw.

Julien Appleby Millette, PhD Student

Born and raised on Vancouver Island, I love hiking mountains, biodiversity, evolutionary psychology, physics and chemistry. I hope to see the industrialization of space and the construction of Dyson swarm megastructres in my lifetime.

Aishat Idris , PhD Student

Hi, my name is Aisha, I’m the one computational chemist in the Paci group working on adsorption of amino acids to nanostructured surfaces and also informing force fields for these types of systems. I love love reading books and just the oceans.

Clayton Smith , MSc Student

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Jesse Delmage , MSc Student

Jesse received his udnergraduate degree from UVic in 2024. During his undergraduate degree he did research with the Paci group and decided to stay on for grad school. His work has mainly been using molecular dynamics simulations to study gold nanoparticles. When not working, Jesse enjoys exploring the outdoors on Vancouver Island.

Sofia Donnecke, PhD student

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James McFarlane, PhD

James is a Vancouver Island local who has been with the Paci group since 2012 as an undergraduate researcher. Today, he is a PhD candidate in the group working on computational methods to enhance the prediction of protein-ligand complexes with implications in drug design. When he is not in front of a computer, he is on the trails or at the beach

Chao-Ming (Elvis) Ting, PhD

After obtaining my BSc in physics at UVic (2012), I continued my MSc at UVic but in the chemistry department. My current project is about self-assembled monolayer formation of thiol(ate) on gold surfaces using ab initio quantum method – density functional theory to be specific.

Dushanthi Dissanayake, undergraduate research student

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Yarra Hassan, undergraduate research student

Born in Jerusalem but having lived most of her life in Vancouver, Yarra received her BSc in chemistry at UVic. Yarra worked with the Paci group on numerous projects, such as self assembly surfaces and nanoparticles; generally anything Dr.Paci is willing to give Yarra. When Yarra is not looking at her computer, you can find her biking, hiking, and playing board games. She has now moved on to being a PhD student at the University of Washington where she continues her work in computational chemistry.