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. 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, 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. Awards and honors In 2015, Head-Gordon was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. References Living people Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science Australian emigrants to the United States Carnegie Mellon University alumni UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1962 births Computational chemists Theoretical chemists Schrödinger Medal recipients