Education
Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon University.
A native of Australia, Head-Gordon received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Monash University, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon 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. Today at Berkeley, 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 also one of the founders of Q-Chem Incorporated.
In 2015, Head-Gordon was elected to The National Academy of Sciences.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
He is a member of The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.