Gustavo E. Scuseria is the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Professor of Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University, Houston, TX. He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation from 2006-2009, then as Co-Editor-in-Chief from 2009-2021 for a total of 15 years with the journal. Scuseria earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1983 and conducted post-doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley (1985–1987) and the University of Georgia (1987–1989) prior to joining the chemistry faculty at Rice University in 1989.
Group and research Since 1989, more than 45 graduate students and 45 post-doctoral researchers have worked in the group, as well as a number of visiting scholars, summer researchers and undergraduate students. Research in the Scuseria group straddles quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and materials science, focusing on novel methods for electronic structure theory in molecules and solids, particularly strong correlation, and applications to molecules and materials of importance for energy and the environment. Professor Scuseria has made contributions to density functional theory, coupled cluster theory and the theory of carbon nanomaterials. Recent research thrusts in the group have focused on symmetry breaking and restoration, projected quasiparticle theory, projected Hartree-Fock theory, density embedding methods and pair coupled cluster theory. Scuseria's work has resulted in more than 530 peer‑reviewed publications and over 420 invited lectures at conferences and institutions worldwide. His publications have been cited more than 111,000 times according to Web of Science, with an h‑index of 123, and over 258,000 times according to Google Scholar, including citations from software that makes use of his algorithms.
Honors and awards Scuseria's work has been recognized by a number of awards. These include the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an IBM Partnership Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Creativity Extension Award from the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation, and the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology Theory. Scuseria is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Chemical Society. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, where he served as Vice President from 2012-2018 and as President from 2023-2026. In 2016, Scuseria was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
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