Giovanny Espitia

Ph.D. Student in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

Theoretical & Computational Condensed Matter Physics · Advisor: Mit H. Naik

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. in Physics

Dean’s Strategic Fellow — sole recipient in the Department of Physics

2024 – Present

Georgia Institute of Technology

B.S. in Physics, Highest Honors

2021 – 2024

Publications

[1]
Taco flat bands at a magic twist angle in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides.
G. Espitia, S.H. Lee, et al.
Submitted to PRL, 2025
[2]
Electron Ptychography Reveals Layer-Resolved Picometer-Scale Relaxation in Large-Angle Moiré.
C. Shi, Y. Li, Y. Jiang, Y. Luo, G. Espitia, et al.
Science (in review), 2025
[3]
Giant intervalley exciton absorption in a large twist-angle semiconductor bilayer.
Z. Liu, G. Espitia, et al.
Nature (in review), 2025
[4]
Field-Tunable Valley Coupling in a Dodecagonal Semiconductor Quasicrystal.
Z. Liu, Q. Gao, Y. Li, G. Espitia, et al.
Nature Physics, 2025
[5]
Protein Structure Prediction Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in the 3D HP Model.
G. Espitia, Y.T. Pang, J.C. Gumbart
arXiv:2412.20329, 2024

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Awards

Antoniewicz Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Condensed Matter Physics

2025

Dean’s Strategic Fellowship, UT Austin Dept. of Physics

2024 – 2025

Faculty Honors Award, Georgia Tech

2021 – 2024

First-Year Research Scholarship, Kennesaw State University

2020 – 2021

Software

TwisterASE

A Python toolkit for generating twisted layered material structures (graphene, hBN, TMDs) and producing ready-to-run LAMMPS input files for molecular dynamics simulations.

Skills

Programming: Python, Julia, MATLAB, PyTorch, C++, CUDA, High-Performance Computing
Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent)