Prof. Dr. Gustavo E. Scuseria

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityHouston
InstitutionRice University
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Matthias SchefflerAbteilung Theorie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2015

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Scuseria is a towering figure in the development, implementation, and application of computational quantum chemistry tools to practical problems. He has made pivotal contributions in the areas of coupled-cluster and density-functional theories (DFT), and more. The so-called HSE (Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof) functional for treating electronic exchange and correlation in DFT will soon be the most popular functional in computational condensed-matter theory. In Berlin, he will continue to work on methods that go beyond density-functional theory.