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Prof. Dr. Paola Gori Giorgi

Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Paola Gori Giorgi is professor within the Theoretical Chemistry division.

Personal information

Paola Gori-Giorgi is interested in extending the accuracy of electronic density functional theory (DFT) to systems in which electronic correlation plays a prominent role.

Paola Gori-Giorgi is full professor (University Research Chair) of Theoretical and Mathematical Chemistry. She studied Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and worked in the US (Tulane University) and in France (CNRS, Paris). She came at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2010. You can find here her CV.

Current Positions 

2016 – Present     Full Professor, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2009 – present    Tenured Senior Researcher (CR1), French National Research Council (CNRS),
                             Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
                             Paris (France) [in temporary leave (détachement) since 2010] 

Previous positions

2012 – 2015   Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2010 – 2012   Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2005 – 2009  Tenured Junior Researcher (CR2), French National Research Council (CNRS),
                       Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
2004               EU Marie Curie Fellow, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique,
                       Université Pierre et Marie Curie, (France)
2002 – 2003  Postdoctoral Fellow, Italian National Institute for Physics of Condensed Matter (INFM),
                      Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, Rome (Italy)
2001               Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
2000 – 2001  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Group,
                      Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
1999 – 2000  Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
1996 – 1999  PhD Student, Department of Physics, University of Perugia (Italy)

Research

All research and more information, see P Gori Giorgi — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (vu.nl)

More information 

For all projects and more information on Quantum Matter in Chemistry & Physics, see Quantum Matter in Chemistry & Physics

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