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Peter M. W. Gill

The University of Sydney

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Affiliations

  • Schofield Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia

Biography

Peter M. W. Gill received his BSc (1983) and MSc (1984) degrees from the University of Auckland and his PhD in 1988 from the Australian National University. He did postdoctoral work with John Pople at Carnegie Mellon University during 1988 - 1993. He accepted a lectureship at Massey University in 1993, a lectureship at the University of Cambridge in 1996, the inaugural chair of theoretical chemistry at the University of Nottingham in 1999, a professorship at the Australian National University in 2004 and, finally, the Schofield Chair in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney in 2019.

Research Focus

Quantum chemistry

Density functional theory