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David Manolopoulos

Professor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

About me

David Manolopoulos obtained a BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge in 1984, and a PhD under the supervision of David Clary in 1988. After completing postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, he moved to a lectureship in Physical Chemistry at the University of Nottingham in 1990, and to a lectureship in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Oxford in 1995. He became a Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in 2005.

David’s research in chemical dynamics has been recognised by several awards, including the Marlow Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1995), the Corday-Morgan Medal (1997), the Chemical Dynamics Award (2009), and the Annual Prize of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2000). He was elected a Fellow of Royal Society in 2011 and a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science in 2013. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics since 2008, and a Deputy Editor since 2015.

Courses and Programs taught by David Manolopoulos