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David Sholl is the John F. Brock III School Chair of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. During an academic career
of more than 20 years, he has advised more than 60 PhD students and
postdocs. His research group has published more than 350 papers
describing their work on computational material modeling for
applications in the chemical industry and energy sector. David has
given more than 200 invited seminar and talks around the world and
written two previous books, Density Functional Theory: A Practical
Introduction (with Janice Steckel, published by Wiley in 2009) and
Polyphony, a novel. The former has been cited more than 1100 times
(using data from Google Scholar). David has also participated in
writing documents that defined research agendas for the US
Department of Energy and the National Academies of Science.
For the past seven years, David has led the School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) at Georgia Tech, the largest
academic chemical engineering department in the US, with 900
undergraduate students and 250 PhD students and postdoctoral
researchers. ChBE has recently been ranked as the #3 best
undergraduate chemical engineering program in the US (US News and
World Report), the #5 best graduate chemical engineering in the US
(US News and World Report), and the #6 chemical engineering
department in the world (Shanghai Ranking Consultancy Academic
Rankings). During his time as School Chair, David’s research group
has published more than 100 papers. This book is based on lectures
David has given annually to the graduate students, postdoctoral
researchers and faculty in ChBE.
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