Research in the Carter group currently focuses entirely on enabling the discovery and design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy, including converting sunlight to electricity and fuels, as well as optimizing lightweight metal alloys for fuel-efficient vehicles and fusion reactor walls. The work builds on Carter’s pioneering development of efficient and accurate first principles quantum mechanics techniques for electron correlation, embedded correlated wavefunction, and orbital‐free density functional theories.

Publications

1987 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA

Degree: Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry Advisor: William A. Goddard III

1982 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA

Degree: B.S. (high honors) in Chemistry

2019

2019 Graduate Mentoring Award, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University

2019

2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology

2018

2018 CME Leadership Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation, New York Section of the American Chemical Society

2018

2018 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, American Chemical Society

2017

Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals

2017

2017 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society

2016

Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecturer, American Chemical Society

2016

Member, National Academy of Engineering (www.nae.edu)

2015

2015-16 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

2014

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (www.academyofinventors.org)

2014

2014 Ira Remsen Award, Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society, Johns Hopkins University

2014

2014 Linnett Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

2013

Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 Simons Public Lecturer, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

2013

Sigillo D’Oro (Golden Sigillum) Medal, Italian Chemical Society, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

2012

Docteur Honoris Causa from L’Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL)

2012

Honorary Mathematical and Physical Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Foundation

2011

August Wilhelm von Hofmann Lecture Award, German Chemical Society

2009

Member, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science

2008

Member, National Academy of Sciences (www.nationalacademies.org)

2008

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (www.amacad.org)

2008

Welch Distinguished Lecturer in Chemistry

2007

American Chemical Society Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research