Dr. Laura Gagliardi

Academic Rank

Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering

Education

• M.A./M.S. University of Bologna, Italy, 1992
• Ph.D./J.D. University of Bologna, Italy, 1997

Professional Experience

University of Chicago
2020 – present: Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor Department of Chemistry
2020 – present: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and James Franck Institute
2020 – present: Director of the Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry
2014 – present: Director of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (EFRC)

University of Minnesota
2019 – 2020: McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair
2014 – 2020: Distinguished McKnight University Professor
2009 – 2020: Professor
2012 – 2020: Graduate Appointment in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
2012 – 2020: Director, Chemical Theory Center
2012 – 2014: Director, Nanoporous Materials Genome Center

University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2005 – 2009: Associate Professor

University of Palermo (Italy)
2002 – 2004: Assistant Professor, University of Palermo

University of Bologna
2000 – 2002: Research Associate

Publications

• Comparing the reaction profiles of single iron catalytic sites in enzymes and in reticular frameworks for methane-to-methanol oxidation
• The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry
• Linearized Pair-Density Functional Theory
• Dipole Moments and Transition Dipole Moments Calculated by Pair-Density Functional Theory with State Interaction
• Monte Carlo Simulations of Water Adsorption in Aluminum Oxide Rod-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks

Awards and Academic Achievements

Honors and Awards

2022: Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecture
2022: Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2021: Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2021: Faraday Lectureship Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2021: Elected Foreign Member of the Accademia dei Lincei
2020: Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2020: Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society
2019: Elected Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
2019: McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair
2019: Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society
2018: Elected Member of Academia Europea
2018: Humboldt Foundation Research Award
2017: Elected Member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
2016: Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
2016: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2016: Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2016: Isaiah Shavitt Lectureship award, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2014: Distinguished McKnight University Professor
2010: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant
2004: Annual award of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science to scientists under 40, with citation: “for her innovative contributions to prediction and understanding of new inorganic molecules using quantum chemical methods”

Visiting Professorships or Visiting Scholar Positions

2015: École Normale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, France
2005: Lund University (Sweden), Department of Chemistry
2003 and 2005: University of Tokyo (Japan), Department of Chemistry

Named Lectures

2022: Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecture
2019: Charles Coulson Lecture, University of Georgia
2018: The Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle