Biography:Martin Head-Gordon

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Martin Head-Gordon

Born
Martin Paul Head

(1962-03-17) 17 March 1962 (age 64)
EducationMonash University (BSc, MSc)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Known forQ-Chem
Spouse(s)Teresa Head-Gordon
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical chemistry
Quantum chemistry
Computational chemistry[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisDirect ab initio molecular orbital methods for the study of large molecules (1989)
Doctoral advisorJohn Pople
Doctoral studentsTroy Van Voorhis
Other notable studentsPost-docs:
Websitewww.cchem.berkeley.edu/mhggrp

Martin Paul Head-Gordon (né Martin Paul 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]

Education

A 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

At Berkeley,[5] Head-Gordon 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. Head-Gordon is one of the founders of Q-Chem Inc.

Awards and honors

  • 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[6]
  • 2012 Fellow of the American Chemical Society[7]
  • 2015 Member of the National Academy of Sciences[8]
  • 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society[9]
  • 2020 Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gabrielsen, Paul (2018). "QnAs with Martin Head-Gordon". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (8): 1670–1671. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721205115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 29432150. Bibcode: 2018PNAS..115.1670G. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science". http://www.iaqms.org/members/headgordon.php. 
  4. ↑ 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. doi:10.1063/1.455553. ISSN 0021-9606. Bibcode: 1988JChPh..89.5777H. 
  5. ↑ "The Head-Gordon Group". The Head-Gordon Group. http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mhggrp/. 
  6. ↑ "Martin P. Head-Gordon". amacad.org. https://www.amacad.org/person/martin-p-head-gordon. 
  7. ↑ "Head-Gordon honored by chemistry society". berkeley.edu. 2012-08-20. https://news.berkeley.edu/2012/08/28/head-gordon-honored-by-chemistry-society/. 
  8. ↑ Anon (2013). "Martin Head-Gordon". https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/martin-head-gordon-wyaljb/. 
  9. ↑ "Professor Martin Head-Gordon FRS". royalsociety.org. https://royalsociety.org/people/martin-head-gordon-14099/. 
  10. ↑ "Schrödinger Medal winners". watoc.net. 2020-02-15. https://www.watoc.net/watoc.schroedinger.html.