I'm a nuclear theory grad student working on path integral approaches to the nuclear many-body problem in Dick Furnstahl's group. 

In particular, I'm looking at using path integrals to discuss collective degrees of freedom in the formulation of nuclear energy density functionals (EDFs).

I've done some preliminary work (arxiv:2506.02919) into going beyond mean field with competing channels in the calculation of the EDF for a uniform system. The results are quite promising as avenues of handling the problem of competing channels in a systematically improvable manner! Applying the same ideas to a finite system (like a nucleus) brings us to the issue of broken symmetries, since mean field approximations necessarily break translational, rotational, particle number symmetries for nuclei. Symmetry restoration methods in the path integral framework is thus my current focus.