Biography:
Prof. Head-Gordon received her BS in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1983 and her Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. She was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1990-1992. She currently is Chancellor’s Professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a recipient of an IBM SUR award in 2001 and was a Schlumberger Fellow at Cambridge University, UK (2005-2006) and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and RESOLV German Center of Excellence. She serves as co-Director of CalSolv and the national Molecular Sciences and Software Institute. She serves/served as Editorial Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Chemical Physics (2017-2020); Journal of Computational Chemistry (2003-), Journal of Physical Chemistry (2009-2011); Molecular Physics (2018-); Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (2010-2013); and SIAM book series on Computational Science and Engineering (2004-2008), as well as an editor for Biophysical Journal (2003-2006). (Source)
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