Laura Gagliardi#
| Membership Number: | 4815 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://gagliardigroup.uchicago.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
- 2020 - present Director of the Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry
- 2014 - present Director, Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center EFRC
- 2014 - 2020 University of Minnesota, Distinguished McKnight University Professor
- 2009 - 2020 University of Minnesota, Professor
- 2014 - 2020 University of Minnesota, Director, Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center EFRC
- 2012 - 2020 University of Minnesota, Director, Chemical Theory Center
- 2012 - 2014 University of Minnesota, Director, Nanoporous Materials Genome Center
- 2005 - 2009 University of Geneva, Associate Professor
- 2000 - 2004 University of Palermo, Assistant Professor
- 1998 - 1999 University of Cambridge, Postdoctoral Research Associate
- 1993 - 1997 University of Bologna, Graduate Research Assistant
Fields of Scholarship
- Combination of first principle methods with classical simulation techniques
- Catalysis and gas separation in porous materials
- Development of novel quantum chemical methods for strongly correlated systems
- Modeling catalysis and spectroscopy in molecular systems
- Photovoltaic properties of organic and inorganic semiconductors
- Separation of actinides
- Computational design of novel materials and molecular systems for energy-related challenges
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Pauling Medal Award
- 2022 Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2021 Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Elected Foreign Member of the Accademia dei Lincei
- 2021 Faraday Lectureship Prize
- 2020 Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2020 Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2019 Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society
- 2019 Elected Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- 2018 Humboldt Foundation Research Award
- 2017 Elected Member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists Board
- 2016 Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
- 2016 Isaiah Shavitt Lectureship Award, Technion
- 2014 University of Minnesota Distinguished McKnight University Professor
- 2010 Swiss National Science Foundation Award
- 2004 Annual award of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences to scientists under 40
- 2005 Visiting Professor Lund University, Sweden Department of Chemistry
- 2003 Visiting Professor University of Tokyo, Department of Chemistry
