Research Statement |
| The research activities of Prof. Car include chemical physics and materials science; electronic structure theory and ab-initio molecular dynamics. Computer modeling and simulation of solids, liquids, disordered systems, and molecular structures. Structural phase transitions and chemical reactions. |
Education |
| 1971 |
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Milan Institute of Technology, Milan, Italy
|
Positions |
| 1999- |
Professor of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University
|
| 1991-1999 |
Director, Institute of Numerical Research in the Physics of Materials, Lausanne, Switzerland
|
| 1991-1999 |
Professor of Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
|
| 1984-1990 |
Professor of Physics, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
|
| 1981-1983 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights
|
| 1975-1976 |
Research Associate, Milan Institute of Technology, Italy
|
| 1973-1974 |
Research Fellow, University of Milan, Italy
|
| 1877-1981 |
1st Assistant, Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
|
Selected Honors |
| |
Hewlett-Packard Prize of the European Physical Society
|
| |
Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society
|
| |
Miller Professor, University of California, Berkeley
|
| |
FMC Lecturer, Princeton
|
| |
Fellow of the American Physical Society
|
