Kieron Burke

University of California, Irvine, USA

Kieron Burke received his B.A. degree from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1989. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers, at Indiana University, and at Tulane University, before becoming a Professor at Rutgers-Camden in 1996. Kieron was a Professor in both the Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Physics and Astronomy Departments at Rutgers from 1999, before moving to UC Irvine in 2006. He has won several awards for teaching and research, which include the IJQC Young Investigators Award for contributions to quantum chemistry and the Rutgers Board of Trustees Fellowship for scholarly excellence. He was appointed Professor of chemistry and of physics at UC Irvine since 2006. In 2007, he was elected American Physical Society fellow. His research group dedicated to spreading the use of density functional theory (DFT) throughout the known universe, but particularly in chemistry, physics, materials science, and nanoscience. This theory had such impact in chemistry that its originators were awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize. By making calculations much faster than with traditional ab initio methods, larger and more interesting systems can now be studied.

Biography Updated on 2 January 2008

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