• Ph.D. in Chemistry (Purdue University - 2017 - West Lafayette, Indiana)
• B.S. in Chemistry (Universidad del Valle - 2009 - Cali, Colombia)

     Challenges in Molecular Modeling Engaged from Two Distinct Theoretical Perspectives

• 2015 Outstanding Accomplishment Award: LLNL Students Symposium
• 2014 Ely Lily Scholar
• 2011 Colciencias Young Scientists and Innovators Fellow

• Fragmentation Methods
• Classical Molecular Dynamics
• Density Functional Development
• Excited-States Phenomena

``Octopus, a Computational Framework for Exploring Light-driven Phenomena and Quantum Dynamics in Extended and Finite Systems,'' N. Tancogne-Dejean, M. J. T. Oliveira, X. Andrade, H. Appel, C. H. Borca, Breton. G. Le, F. Buchholz, A. Castro, S. Corni, A. A. Correa, Giovannini. U. De, A. Delgado, F. G. Bich, J. Flick, G. Gil, A. Gomez, N. Helbig, H. Hübener, R. Jestädt, J. Jornet-Somoza, A. H. Larsen, I. Lebedeva, M. Lüders, M. A. L. Marques, S. T. Ohlmann, S. Pipolo, M. Rampp, C. A. Rozzi, D. A. Strubbe, S. A. Sato, C. Schäfer, I. Theophilou, A. Welden, and A. Rubio, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 124119 (2020) (doi: 10.1063/1.5142502)

``Molecular Dynamics of a Water-Absorbent Nanoscale Material Based On Chitosan,'' C. H. Borca and C. A. Arango, J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 3754-3764 (2016) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b11230)

``Domain Separation in Density Functional Theory,'' M. A. Mosquera, L. O. Jones, C. H. Borca, M. A. Ratner, and G. C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. A 123, 4785-4795 (2019) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b01173)

``Ground-State Charge Transfer: Lithium-Benzene and the Role of Hartree-Fock Exchange,'' C. H. Borca, L. V. Slipchenko, and A. Wasserman, J. Phys. Chem. A 120, 8190-8198 (2016) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b09014)

``Connection Between Hybrid Functionals and Importance of the Local Density Approximation,'' M. A. Mosquera, C. H. Borca, M. A. Ratner, and G. C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. A 120, 1605-1612 (2016) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10864)

``Quantum Chemistry Common Driver and Databases (QCDB) and Quantum Chemistry Engine (QCEngine): Automation and Interoperability Among Computational Chemistry Programs,'' D. G. A. Smith, A. T. Lolinco, Z. L. Glick, J. Lee, A. Alenaizan, T. A. Barnes, C. H. Borca, R. Di Remigio, D. L. Dotson, S. Ehlert, A. G. Heide, M. F. Herbst, J. Hermann, C. B. Hicks, J. T. Horton, A. G. Hurtado, P. Kraus, H. Kruse, S. J. R. Lee, J. P. Misiewicz, L. N. Naden, F. Ramezanghorbani, M. Scheurer, J. B. Schriber, A. C. Simmonett, J. Steinmetzer, J. R. Wagner, L. Ward, M. Welborn, D. Atlarawy, J. Anwar, J. D. Chodera, A. Dreuw, H. T. Kulik, F. Liu, T. J. Martínez, D. A. Matthews, H. F. Schaefer, J. Šponer, J. T. Turney, L.-P. Wang, N. De Silva, R. A. King, J. F. Stanton, M. S. Gordon, T. L. Windus, C. D. Sherrill, and L. A. Burns, J. Chem. Phys. 155, 204801 (2021) (doi: 10.1063/5.0059356)

``X-ray Fiber Diffraction and Computational Analyses of Stacked Hexads in Supramolecular Polymers: Insight Into Self-Assembly in Water by Prospective Prebiotic Nucleobases,'' A. Alenaizan, C. H. Borca, S. C. Karunakaran, A. K. Kendall, Stubbs. G. , G. B. Schuster, C. D. Sherrill, and N. V. Hud, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 6079-6094 (2021) (doi: 10.1002/chem.202004390)

``CrystaLattE: Automated Computation of Lattice Energies of Organic Crystals Exploiting the Many-Body Expansion to Achieve Dual-Level Parallelism,'' C. H. Borca, B. W. Bakr, L. A. Burns, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 144103 (2019) (doi: 10.1063/1.5120520)

``Morphology of Organic Semiconductors Electrically Doped From Solution Using Phosphomolybdic Acid,'' T.-Y. Huang, F. A. Larrain, C. H. Borca, C. Fuentes-Hernandez, H. Yan, S. A. Schneider, W.-F. Chou, V. A. Rodriguez-Toro, H.-G. Steinrück, C. Cao, C. D. Sherrill, B. Kippelen, and M. F. Toney, Chem. Mater. 31, 6677-6683 (2019) (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01069)