| Martin Head-Gordon | |
| Birth Name: | Martin Philip Head |
| Birth Date: | 17 March 1962 |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Spouse: | Teresa Head-Gordon |
| Fields: | Theoretical chemistry Quantum chemistry Computational chemistry |
| Work Institutions: | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma Mater: | Monash University (BSc, MSc) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Direct ab initio molecular orbital methods for the study of large molecules |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.proquest.com/docview/303682558/ |
| Thesis Year: | 1989 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | John Pople |
| Doctoral Students: | Troy Van Voorhis |
| Prizes: | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) |
| Notable Students: | Post-docs: |
| Known For: | Q-Chem |
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] [2]
A native of Australia, Head-Gordon received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Monash University, followed by a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University[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,[3] and the orbital rotation picture of orbital optimization.
At Berkeley,[4] 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 one of the founders of Q-Chem Inc.
In 2015, Head-Gordon was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.[5] [6]