Alejandro Toro-Labbe

Alejandro Toro-Labbé, born in Porvenir (Chile). Full Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Docteur d'Etat es Sciences Physiques at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (1984). Director of the Quantum Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (QTC). Visiting Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France), Université Joseph Fourier (France) Université Claude Bernard (France), University of Georgia (USA), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Universidad de Girona (Spain), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Vrije Universiteit Brusels, (Belgium). Scientific advisor of 20 Ph.D. Theses in Chemistry. Fellow of the Chilean Academy of Sciences since 2004. Chilean Presidential Chair in Sciences (Cátedra Presidencial en Ciencias) 1998. Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim 2006. Honor Medal of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Associate Editor of Journal of Molecular Modeling (Springer). Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Springer); Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science (Wiley); Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society. Main Researcher and deputy investigator of 30 research projects. Director of Nucleus Millennium Chemical Processes and Catalysis (CPC). Author of 212 scientific papers. Coauthor of two chemistry books for chilean high schools. Editor de Theoretical Aspects of Chemical Reactivity (Elsevier 2006). Research interest: quantum computational chemistry and density functional theory applied to chemical reactivity and dynamics of catalytic reactions.