I am an assistant professor of physics in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences of the University of the Virgin Islands. I leverage leadership-class supercomputing to solve problems in quantum field theory. This often involves large-scale HMC calculations, finding places to leverage machine learning, and developing specialized algorithms based on physical insight.

I previously was a senior staff scientist at the Institut für Kernphysik, Institute for Advanced Simulation, and Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and maintain close ties to my colleagues there.

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• 2025-present Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of the Virgin Islands

• 2021-2024 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [Senior Staff Scientist], Institut für Kernphysik, Institute for Advanced Simulation, and Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich

• 2019-2021 Research Assistant Professor, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland.

• 2016-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut für Kernphysik and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich

• 2013-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Lattice field theory group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• 2008-2013 Ph.D. student of Paulo Bedaque in the Theoretical Quarks, Hadrons, and Nuclei group at the University of Maryland

• 2004-2008 S.B. at MIT; Course VIII (physics), minor in XVIII (mathematics)

• 1998-2004 Hunter College High School

• Ostmeyer et al., Effective theory for graphene nanoribbons with junctions, Phys. Rev. B, 109(19):195135, May 2024, 2401.04715.

• Berkowitz, Cherman, and Jacobson, Exact lattice chiral symmetry in 2d gauge theory, Phys. Rev. D, 110(1):014510, July 2024, 2310.17539.

• Ostmeyer et al., The Antiferromagnetic Character of the Quantum Phase Transition in the Hubbard Model on the Honeycomb Lattice, Phys. Rev. B, 104:155142, Oct 2021, 2105.06936.

• Wynen et al., Machine Learning to Alleviate Hubbard Model Sign Problems, Phys. Rev. B, 103:125153, Mar 2021, 2006.11221.

• Ostmeyer et al., The Semimetal-Mott Insulator Quantum Phase Transition of the Hubbard Model on the Honeycomb Lattice, Phys. Rev. B, 102:245105, Dec. 2020, 22005.1111.

• Chang et al., A per-cent-level determination of the nucleon axial coupling from Quantum Chromodynamics, Nature, 558:91-94, 2018, 1805.12130.

• Nicholson et al., Heavy Physics Contributions to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from QCD, Phys. Rev. Lett., 121:172501, 1805.02634.

• E. Berkowitz, METAQ: Bundle Supercomputing Tasks, 1702.06122.

• E. Berkowitz et al., Precision lattice test of the gauge/gravity duality at large N. Phys. Rev, D94:094501, 2016, 1606.04951.

• E. Berkowitz et al., Two-Nucleon Higher Partial-Wave Scattering from Lattice QCD. Phys. Lett. B, 765:285-292, 2017, 1508.00866.

• E. Berkowitz, M. Buchoff, and E. Rinaldi, Lattice QCD Input for Axion Cosmology. Phys. Rev., D92:034507, 2015, 1505.07455.