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
  • Hewlett-Packard Prize of the European Physical Society
  • Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society