Prof. Dr. Ali Alavi
Participating in the following Rounds:
The research in the Electronic Structure Theory department is largely concerned with the development of accurate methods to solve many-electron Schrodinger and more generally many-body type eigenvalue problems, which can handle electron correlation and spin-related phenomena, as well as ameliorating basis set errors which rise from slow-basis set convergence which appears in ab initio descriptions. These are problems for which exact solutions generally require exponentially large amounts of computer resources. Progress in such problems usually requires approximate techniques, such as stochastic diagonalisation and related active-space methods, coupled-cluster theory, as well as explicitly correlated methods such as "transcorrelation".
We welcome enquiries from qualified individuals (with a Masters in a relevant field of theoretical chemistry or physics).
Dr. Giovanni Li Manni, group leader at the Electronic Structure Theory Department offers a PhD position in the Field of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry for Enlightening open-shell 3d Metal Complexes through Compressed Ligand Fields. More info can be found here