Laura Gagliardi

Laura Gagliardi is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. She is known for her work on the development of electronic structure methods and their use for understanding complex chemical systems.

She earned her Master of Science degree in chemistry at the University of Bologna in 1992 and her PhD at the same university in 1997. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge from 1998 to 1999 and became an assistant professor at the University of Palermo in 2002. In 2005 she became associate professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and in 2009 she joined the University of Minnesota as a professor of chemistry. She was director of the Nanoporous Materials Genome Center from 2012 to 2014 and has been director of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center since 2014. She was appointed as Distinguished McKnight University Professor in 2014.

Her research focuses on the development of electronic structure methods and their use for understanding complex chemical systems. Gagliardi has an h-index of 69 according to Google Scholar.

• 2004: Annual Award of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences
• 2016: Fellow of American Physical Society
• 2016: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2016: Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2016: Isaiah Shavitt Lectureship Award, Technion
• 2018: Humboldt Research Award
• 2018: Member of the Academia Europaea
• 2019: Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society