International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences

Jean-Marie Andre received B.Sc. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) degrees from the Cathohc University of Louvain (UCL). After a postdoctoral stay with Enrico dementi, he became Professor of Chemistry at the Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur where he established the theoretical chemistry laboratory with a primary interest in the field of the electronic properties of polymers. J.M. Andre has been the Director of this laboratory since 1974. He has written about 300 scientific papers and 7 books, and he is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and the European Academy of Science. 

Bom and raised in the New York City area, Mark Gordon received his B.S., Ph.D. and postdoctoral education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University (with J.A. Pople) and Iowa State University (with K. Ruedenberg). At North Dakota State University, he rose to Distinguished Professor and Department Chair. At Iowa State University, he is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Applied Mathematical Sciences Program in the Ames Laboratory USDOE. He has been the Chair of the Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision of the American Chemical Society, and the Secretary-Treasurer of its Physical Chemistry Division. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fulbright Senior Scholar and was recently elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. 

Keiji Morokuma received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1963 working under the direction of Kenichi Fukui at Kyoto University. After postdoctoral work with Martin Karplus at Columbia and Harvard, he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in 1967. In 1977, he moved to the Institute for Molecular Science at Okazaki, Japan to head the theoretical department and computer center. In 1993 he joined the faculty of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, where he is currently William Henry Emerson Professor and Director of Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientihc Computation. He is presently President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. 

Hiroshi Nakatsuji received his Ph.D. (Engineering) in 1971 at Kyoto University. Since 1990, he has been a Professor at Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in Kyoto University. He is a member of International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. He is also a Director of Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry of Kyoto University. 

Josef (Joe) Paldus defended his M.Sc. Thesis in 1958 at the Charles University in Prague, supervised by V. Hanus and J. Koutecky, and the latter also supervised his Ph.D. Thesis, defended in 1961 at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He did his postdoctoral studies with D.A. Ramsay at the National Research Council in Ottawa. After emigrating to Canada in 1968 he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Waterloo and later also its Chemistry Department and Guelph-Waterloo Center for Graduate Work in Chemistry. Since his obligatory retirement in 2001 he continues his research as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983, a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences a year later and, most recently, a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. 

Ad van der Avoird studied chemical engineering at the Technical University in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 1959 to 1964. From 1964 to 1967 he worked at the Battelle Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and from 1967 to 1971 at the Unilever Research Laboratory in Vlaardin-gen, where in 1968 he became Head of the Molecular Physics section. In 1968 he obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Technical University in Eindhoven and in the same year he became Part-time Professor at the University of Nijmegen. In 1971 he became Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in Nijmegen. Since 1979 he is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and since 1997 a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. 

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Debashis Mukherjee is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and the Director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India. He has been one of the earliest developers of a class of multi-reference coupled cluster theories and also of the coupled cluster based linear response theory. Other contributions by him are in the resolution of the size-extensivity problem for multi-reference theories using an incomplete model space and in the size-extensive intermediate Hamiltonian formalism. His research interests focus on the development and applications of non-relativistic and relativistic theories of many-body molecular electronic structure and theoretical spectroscopy, quantum many-body dynamics and statistical held theory of many-body systems. He is a member of the International Academy of the Quantum Molecular Science, a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of the Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Prize of the Council of Scientihc and Industrial Research of the Government of India. 

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