Martin Head-Gordon

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]

Martin Head-Gordon FRS
Born	Martin Paul Head (1962-03-17) 17 March 1962 (age 63)
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: Jose Luis Mendoza-Cortes
Website	www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mhggrp

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] 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. Head-Gordon is one of the founders of Q-Chem Inc.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

In 2015, Head-Gordon was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.^[6][7]