Teresa Head-Gordon
American chemist
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Teresa Lyn Head-Gordon (née Teresa Lyn Gordon) is an American chemist and the Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.[4] She is also a faculty scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of both the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE ) and the American Chemical Society (ACS).[5]
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2018)
Teresa Head-Gordon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Teresa Lyn Gordon Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Case Western Reserve University (BS) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Spouse | Martin Head-Gordon |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2016) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational chemistry |
| Workplaces | Bell labs University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Thesis | Macroscopic and microscopic simulation methods as applied to biological macromolecules (1989) |
| Charles L. Brooks III[1] | |
Other academic advisors | Frank Stillinger[2][3] |
| Website | thglab |
Early life and education
Head-Gordon was born in Akron, Ohio.[2] She completed her bachelor's degree in chemistry at Case Western Reserve University in 1983.[6] She worked as a waitress for a year before starting a PhD in 1984, and in 1989 she earned her doctorate degree in Theoretical Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Charles L. Brooks III.[1][3][6][7]
Research and career
From 1990 to 1992 Head-Gordon worked as a postdoctoral member of technical staff at Bell Labs, studying protein folding and the perturbation theories of water with Frank Stillinger.[2][3] She joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1992, where she worked as a staff scientist until 2001.[2] In 2001 Head-Gordon was awarded the IBM-SUR Award.[6] That year she became a faculty member of Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley.[6] She was the 2005 Schlumberger Fellow at the University of Cambridge.[8] In 2011 she became a member of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department; in 2012 she joined the chemistry department at University of California, Berkeley.,[6] and joined the chemical sciences division as a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[9] In 2012 she was made the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[6] She is a member of the Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry.[10]
Head-Gordon develops theoretical models that are used in chemical physics and biophysics.[11] The Head-Gordon group studies condensed phase systems ranging from biomolecular systems, molecular liquids, and complex interfaces.[12][13][14][15] Her group develops software packages for molecular simulations.[16][17][18]
She is on the Board of Directors of the Molecular Sciences Software Institute.[19] She became co-director of CalSov in 2016.[6] In 2016 she was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for her contributions to the computational methodologies for macromolecular assemblies.[5] In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.[20]
