Martin Paul Head-Gordon (né Martin Paul 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.
Education 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 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.
Awards and honors 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2012 Fellow of the American Chemical Society 2015 Member of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society 2020 Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
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