Regents’ Professor David Sherrill has been elected to join the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science as a member. Sherrill holds joint appointments with the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Computational Science and Engineering.

“It is an honor to join this prestigious scientific organization,” says Sherrill, who also serves as associate director of the Institute for Data Engineering Science. “The members are the very top experts in quantum chemistry from around the world.”

Sherrill’s research is at the intersection of chemistry, algorithms, and data science. His research group leverages advances in machine learning to develop tools for modeling data from quantum mechanical computations. These tools can be applied to chemical problems like drug discovery and crystal engineering. The research group makes its methods and algorithms publicly available through the open-source quantum chemistry program Psi4.

Sherrill received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia and joined Georgia Tech in 1999 after having served as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received numerous distinctions throughout his career and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society. Sherrill has been associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics since 2009.

Learn more about Sherrill’s research here. 

About the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS)

Established in Menton, France in 1967, IAQMS is an international scientific society that covers the application of quantum theory, including chemistry and chemical physics. It is composed of scientists from around the world who have contributed to the advancement of quantum molecular science. The organization boasts 14 Nobel Prize laureates among its current and past members.