Wanda Andreoni
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Wanda Andreoni (born 1949) is an Italian and Swiss physical chemist known for her research in ab initio quantum chemistry methods for reactions and molecular dynamics on surfaces and in microclusters. She is a professor emeritus and honorary professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.[1]
Andreoni was born in 1949 in Ancona, in Italy; she is an Italian and Swiss citizen.[2] She was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome.[3]
After previous positions at Sapienza University, Bell Labs, the University of Geneva, and EPFL, she joined the Zurich laboratory of IBM Research in 1986. There, she became project leader for computational chemistry and physics in 1994, manager for computational biochemistry and materials science in 1995, and program manager of deep computing applications in 2005.[2]
In 2009 she moved to EPFL as director of the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire, continuing as director until 2012.[2] She was given a full professorship at EPFL in 2010, as chair of computational chemical physics; she held this chair until retiring as a professor emeritus and honorary professor in 2015.[3][2]
