Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D., Milan Institute of Technology, 1971. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Professor Car received a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Milan Institute of Technology in 1971. Since then he has worked at the University of Milan, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, and the University of Geneva. He has directed the Institute for Numerical Research in the Physics of Materials in Lausanne. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1999. RESEARCH INTERESTS His research has been focused on understanding physical and chemical properties of materials at the atomistic scale using computational methods based on first-principles microscopic quantum theory. Systems of interest include liquid and amorphous materials, surfaces and interfaces, defects, clusters, and molecular materials. HONORS
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