Biography
Roberto Car
Professor
Ph.D., Milan Institute of Technology, 1971
Princeton University
Department: Chemistry
Address: 107 Hoyt Laboratory
Email: rcar@princeton.edu
Homepage: http://www.princeton.edu/~cargroup/
Phone: 609-258-2534
Fax: 609-258-6746
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 |
| 1991-99 | Director, Institute of Numerical Research in the Physics of Materials, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1991-99 | Professor of Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1984-90 | Professor of Physics, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy |
| 1981-83 | Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights |
| 1977-81 | 1st Assistant, Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland |
| 1975-76 | Research Associate, Milan Institute of Technology, Italy |
| 1973-74 | Research Fellow, University of Milan, Italy |
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
