David Clary
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Professor David Clary is a British theoretical chemist. He has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005.
He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1964-71. He has a B. Sc. (1974) from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. (1977) and Sc.D. (1997) from the University of Cambridge, where he was at Corpus Christi College. He did post-doctoral research at IBM, San Jose, California and the University of Manchester. In 1980 he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). In 1983 he was appointed Lecturer and then Reader in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge where he was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Magdalene College. In 1996, he was Director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Professor at University College London. In 2002 he moved to the University of Oxford where he was Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Professorial Fellow of St. John's College.
Professor Clary was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his development of the quantum theory for chemical reactions. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Institute of Physics; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. He has received several medals of the RSC, and the medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
He is Editor of Chemical Physics Letters and a reviewing editor of Science. He has held many visiting fellowships and given several named lectures.
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