Ali Alavi

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Ali Alavi (2015)

Ali Alavi FRS (born May 10, 1966 in Tehran ) is a British theoretical quantum chemist , professor at the University of Cambridge and director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart .

Life

Alavi emigrated with his family from Iran to Great Britain in 1979 . He received his PhD. 1991 at the University of Cambridge. From 1991 to 1993 he was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam before becoming a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1993 to 1995 . Until 1998 he was a lecturer at the School of Physics and Mathematics at Queen's University of Belfast , where he worked as a reader until 2000. From 2000 until today he is Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Science at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 2000 to 2005 he was also a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and from 2005 to 2011 University Reader. Since 2011 he has been Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Since November 2013 he has been a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. A little later he also became an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart .

research

Alavi developed a numerical method which, by combining two approaches ( Full Configuration Interaction, FCI , and Quantum Monte Carlo, QMC ), achieves particularly high efficiency in calculating the electronic structure of molecules . Later he also applied the FCI-QMC method to solids. Alavi also made contributions to theoretical surface chemistry and research into catalytic reactions.

Prizes and awards

In 1987 Alavi became a Senior Scholar and in 1990 a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In 2011 he became a Leadership Fellow of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. On April 30, 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on the FCI-QMC method.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. Retrieved November 24, 2018 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b AliAlavi | Royal Society. Retrieved November 24, 2018 (UK English).
  3. ↑ Alavi, Ali. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Ali Alavi | Kobe University Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ George H. Booth, Alex JW Thom, Ali Alavi: Fermion Monte Carlo without fixed nodes: A game of life, death, and annihilation in Slater determinant space . In: The Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 131 , no. 5 , 2009, ISSN  0021-9606 , p. 054106 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.3193710 ( scitation.org [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  6. ↑ George H. Booth, Andreas Grüneis, Georg Kresse, Ali Alavi: Towards an exact description of electronic wavefunctions in real solids . In: Nature . tape 493 , no. 7432 , December 19, 2012, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 365-370 , doi : 10.1038 / nature11770 ( nature.com [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Angelos Michaelides, Z.-P. Liu, CJ Zhang, Ali Alavi, David A. King: Identification of General Linear Relationships between Activation Energies and Enthalpy Changes for Dissociation Reactions at Surfaces . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . tape 125 , no. April 13 , 2003, ISSN  0002-7863 , p. 3704-3705 , doi : 10.1021 / ja027366r ( acs.org [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Zhi-Pan Liu, P. Hu, Ali Alavi: Catalytic Role of Gold in Gold-Based Catalysts: A Density Functional Theory Study on the CO Oxidation on Gold . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . tape 124 , no. 49 , December 2002, ISSN  0002-7863 , p. 14770–14779 , doi : 10.1021 / ja0205885 ( acs.org [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  9. ^ Royal Society. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Alavi, Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran