Martin Philip Head-Gordon (né Martin Philip Head) FRS is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry.[2] He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.[3][1][2]
Martin Head-Gordon | |
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| Born | Martin Philip Head 17 March 1962 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Monash University (BSc, MSc) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Known for | Q-Chem |
| Spouse | Teresa Head-Gordon |
| Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical chemistry Quantum chemistry Computational chemistry[2] |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Direct ab initio molecular orbital methods for the study of large molecules (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Pople |
| Doctoral students | Troy Van Voorhis |
| Other notable students | Post-docs: |
| Website | www |
Education
editA native of Australia, Head-Gordon received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Monash University,[when?] followed by a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University[3] working under the supervision of John Pople developing a number of useful techniques including the Head-Gordon-Pople scheme for the evaluation of integrals,[4] and the orbital rotation picture of orbital optimization.
Career and research
editAt Berkeley,[5] Martin supervises a group interested in pairing methods, local correlation methods, dual-basis methods, scaled MP2 methods, new efficient algorithms, and very recently corrections to the Kohn-Sham density functional framework. Broadly speaking, wavefunction based methods are the focus of his research. Head-Gordon is one of the founders of Q-Chem Inc.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
editIn 2015, Head-Gordon was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ a b Gabrielsen, Paul (2018). "QnAs with Martin Head-Gordon". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (8): 1670–1671. Bibcode:2018PNAS..115.1670G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721205115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5828634. PMID 29432150.
- ^ a b c Martin Head-Gordon publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b "International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science". www.iaqms.org.
- ^ Head-Gordon, Martin; Pople, John A. (1988). "A method for two-electron Gaussian integral and integral derivative evaluation using recurrence relations". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 89 (9): 5777–5786. Bibcode:1988JChPh..89.5777H. doi:10.1063/1.455553. ISSN 0021-9606.
- ^ "The Head-Gordon Group". berkeley.edu. The Head-Gordon Group.
- ^ Anon (2013). "Martin Head-Gordon". nasonline.org.
- ^ "April 28, 2015: NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected". Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
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