About

Amber Lim, PhD

I'm an artist and Research Computing Facilitator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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I currently work in

Research Computing

I help researchers transition their computational work from their laptop to running on high throughput (HTC) and high performance computing (HPC) clusters. I teach researchers how to use Bash, HTCondor, SLURM, and build their software environments in Apptainer and Docker!

Documentation

I'm continually improving documentation, especially for docs aimed at users new to research computing! I work with my team to write, update, and format documentation on the Center for High Throughput Computing's website.

I did my PhD on

⁂ Structural solid-state and intermetallic chemistry

I examine families of structure types and perform DFT calculations to uncover the factors governing structural favorability.

⚛ Bonding and electronic structure

Intermetallic materials form bonds that range from metallic to ionic to covalent. My research describes their electronic structure from a chemist's perspective, toeing the border between local and delocalized bonding.