Jefferson Bates
Assistant Chair at Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJefferson Bates is an accomplished physical chemist and academic leader with 12 years of experience combining research, teaching, and departmental administration at Appalachian State University. He develops and implements advanced electronic-structure methods (DFT, RPA, CASSCF) and computational tools—publishing and contributing code to open-source packages like TURBOMOLE, BAGEL, and GPAW—while mentoring undergraduates through hands-on research. As Assistant Chair he pairs curriculum and advising responsibilities with automation projects that streamline faculty workflows and assessment. His work uniquely spans fundamental method development (e.g., renormalized perturbation theories and relativistic MCSCF algorithms) and practical pedagogy, applying the same coding skill set to research and classroom efficiency. Based in Boone, NC, Jefferson brings a collaborative, systems-minded approach to complex inorganic and transition-metal problems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry at William & MaryUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (6)
3d-printing10
placement10
schematic10
kicad10
cnc-controller10
eda10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jebbates/DHT22-TemperatureLogger
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Code for temperature logger project. Project uses Rasbperry pi and Adafruit DHT22 temperature / humidity sensors.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
humidity-sensorsraspberry-pitemperature-loggersensorsadafruit
qsimulate-open/bagel
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Brilliantly Advanced General Electronic-structure Library
Contributions:352 commits in 11 months
schematicelectronic-structureedaplacementelectronic
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