Martin Head-Gordon
| Martin Head-Gordon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 March 1962 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields |
Theoretical chemistry Quantum chemistry Computational chemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Monash University Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Pople |
| Known for | Computational methods in quantum chemistry |
Martin Philip Head-Gordon (né Martin Philip Head) is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry. He is a member of The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.[1]
A native of Australia, Head-Gordon received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from Monash University, followed by a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon[1] working under the supervision of John Pople developing a number of useful techniques including the Head-Gordon-Pople scheme for the evaluation of integrals,[2] and the orbital rotation picture of orbital optimization.
Today at Berkeley,[3] 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 also one of the founders of Q-Chem Inc.
In 2015, Head-Gordon was elected to The National Academy of Sciences.[4]
References
- 1 2 Head-Gordon IAQMS page
- ↑ M. Head-Gordon and J. A. Pople, “A Method for Two-Electron Gaussian Integral and Integral Derivative Evaluation Using Recurrence Relations,” J. Chem. Phys. 89 (1988) 5777.
- ↑ (group site: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mhggrp/ )
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