Martin Head-Gordon

Martin Head-Gordon
FRS
Born
Martin Paul Head

(1962-03-17) 17 March 1962 (age 64)
EducationMonash University (BSc, MSc)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Known forQ-Chem
SpouseTeresa Head-Gordon
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical chemistry
Quantum chemistry
Computational chemistry
WorkplacesUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisDirect ab initio molecular orbital methods for the study of large molecules (1989)
John Pople
Doctoral students
Troy Van Voorhis
Other notable students
Post-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. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

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 working under the supervision of John Pople developing a number of useful techniques including the Head-Gordon-Pople scheme for the evaluation of integrals, and the orbital rotation picture of orbital optimization.

Career and research

At Berkeley, 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.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Martin Head-Gordon publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. 1 2 "International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science". www.iaqms.org.
  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. Bibcode:1988JChPh..89.5777H. doi:10.1063/1.455553. ISSN 0021-9606.
  5. ↑ "The Head-Gordon Group". berkeley.edu. The Head-Gordon Group.
  6. ↑ "Martin P. Head-Gordon". amacad.org. Retrieved 2 September 2026.
  7. ↑ "Head-Gordon honored by chemistry society". berkeley.edu. 20 August 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2026.
  8. ↑ Anon (2013). "Martin Head-Gordon". nasonline.org.
  9. ↑ "Professor Martin Head-Gordon FRS". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2 September 2026.
  10. ↑ "Schrödinger Medal winners". watoc.net. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2026.