• B.S. Chemistry, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2015
• B.S. Mathematics, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2015
• Ph.D. Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020

     Electronic Structure Methods for Studying Non-Covalent Interactions in Complex Chemical Environments

• Larry S. O'Hara Fellowship Recipient, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Presidential Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Honorable Mention, 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

• Non-covalent interactions in biochemical systems
• Methods Development
• Scholarship of Teaching

``The Influence of a Solvent Environment On Direct Non-Covalent Interactions Between Two Molecules: A Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory Study of Polarization Tuning of π-π Interactions by Water,'' D. A. Sirianni, X. Zhu, D. F. Sitkoff, D. L. Cheney, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 156, 194306 (2022) (doi: 10.1063/5.0087302)

``Optimized Damping Parameters for Empirical Dispersion Corrections to Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory,'' J. B. Schriber, D. A. Sirianni, D. G. A. Smith, L. A. Burns, D. Sitkoff, D. L. Cheney, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 154, 234107 (2021) (doi: 10.1063/5.0049745)

`` PSI4 1.4: Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Quantum Chemistry,'' D. G. A. Smith, L. A. Burns, A. C. Simmonett, R. M. Parrish, M. C. Schieber, R. Galvelis, P. Kraus, H. Kruse, R. Di Remigio, A. Alenaizan, A. M. James, S. Lehtola, J. P. Misiewicz, M. Scheurer, R. A. Shaw, J. B. Schriber, Y. Xie, Z. L. Glick, D. A. Sirianni, J. S. O'Brien, J. M. Waldrop, A. Kumar, E. G. Hohenstein, B. P. Pritchard, B. R. Brooks, H. F. Schaefer, A. Yu. Sokolov, K. Patkowski, A. E. DePrince, U. Bozkaya, R. A. King, F. A. Evangelista, J. M. Turney, T. D. Crawford, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 184108 (2020) (doi: 10.1063/5.0006002)

``Tipping the Balance Between S-π and O-π Interactions,'' J. Hwang, P. Li, M. D. Smith, C. E. Warden, D. A. Sirianni, E. C. Vik, J. M. Maier, C. J. Yehl, C. D. Sherrill, and K. D. Shimizu, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 13301-13307 (2018) (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b07617)

`` PSI4NUMPY: An Interactive Quantum Chemistry Programming Environment for Reference Implementations and Rapid Development,'' D. G. A. Smith, L. A. Burns, D. A. Sirianni, D. R. Nascimento, A. Kumar, A. M. James, J. B. Schriber, T. Zhang, B. Zhang, A. S. Abbott, E. J. Berquist, M. H. Lechner, L. A. Cunha, A. G. Heide, J. M. Waldrop, T. Y. Takeshita, A. Alenaizan, D. Neuhauser, R. A. King, A. C. Simmonett, J. M. Turney, H. F. Schaefer, F. A. Evangelista, A. E. DePrince, T. D. Crawford, K. Patkowski, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 14, 3504-3511 (2018) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00286)

``Assessment of Density Functional Methods for Geometry Optimization of Biomolecular Van Der Waals Complexes,'' D. A. Sirianni, A. Alenaizan, D. L. Cheney, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 14, 3004-3013 (2018) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00114)

``Comparison of Explicitly Correlated Methods for Computing High-Accuracy Benchmark Energies for Noncovalent Interactions,'' D. A. Sirianni, L. A. Burns, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 13, 86-99 (2017) (doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00797)