Richard Dawes received his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 2005 before joining the group of Prof. Tucker Carrington Jr. as a postdoc at the Université de Montréal. In 2006, he worked with Prof. Donald L. Thompson (Missouri) on fitting PESs before joining Dr. Ahren W. Jasper at the Combustion Research Facility (Sandia, Livermore) in 2009. He became an Assistant Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2010 and was granted an early career award by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2013. His research focuses on multistate multireference quantum chemistry and potential energy surfaces.

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Steve Ndengué received his PhD on the "isotopic selectivity of ozone during the photodissociation process" in France during the Fall of 2011, working with Remy Jost at the University of Grenoble, Fabien Gatti at the University of Montpellier II and Ousmanou Motapon at the University of Douala. He then had Lecturer and Senior Lecturer appointments at the University of Douala, Cameroon from 2011 to 2014. He joined the Dawes group as a postdoctoral fellow in November 2013 working on the Dynamics and Spectroscopy of small molecules, using mainly the MCTDH method.

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Ernesto Quintas Sánchez received his Ph.D. on Eley-Rideal reaction dynamics in France in 2012, working with Jean-Claude Rayez (Bordeaux) and Jesus Rubayo-Soneira (Havana). He has postdoctoral experience working on quantum scattering and intermolecular interactions at LERMA, CNRS, Observatory of Paris, Meudon, France, and has taught Mathematics and Physics at InSTEC, Cuba.

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Phalgun Lolur received his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2013, and his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry in 2015. His research is on developing methods for computing accurate multi-state global potential energy surfaces of complex molecular systems, pertaining to combustion, atmospheric and interstellar chemistry. He also enjoys developing software for educational purposes. Apart from his research, Phalgun has held several executive positions in various student organizations. He attained honor list status at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Fall 2014.

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Andrew Powell is from Kansas City, MO and obtained a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at College of the Ozarks in 2011.  He joined the group in the fall of 2012, and his research involves massively parallel computation including applying Diffusion Monte Carlo to the electronic structure problem for molecular systems.

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