Organizer：State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology

                    Collaborative Innovation Center of Safety and Protection

Title：         Beyond Structure - Multiscale Modeling of Chemical and Biophysical Processes in Complex Environments

Reporter：  Dennis R. Salahub,  Academician

                    University of Calgary, Canada

Time：        2:30p.m., March 23, 2017

Venue：      Building 9, Room617, Beijing Institute of Technology

Biography：

        Dennis Salahub is an academician of Chemistry at the University of Calgary.  He is also affiliated with the Centre for Molecular Simulation, the Institute for Quantum Information Science and with Quantum Alberta.  He is Vice-President (Research and International) Emeritus following a 5-year term from 2002-2007. Prior to joining the University of Calgary, Dr. Salahub served as the Director General of the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa from 1999 -2002.  From 1976-1999, he was a Professor of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal, holding a McConnell Chair from 1990. A native of Alberta, Dr Salahub’s interests are in the field of theoretical and computational chemistry, especially in the theory and applications of Density Functional Theory.  He has published over 325 research papers and four edited books, and has delivered more than 475 invited lectures nationally and internationally. His publications have been cited some 19 000 times and his h-index is 66. The deMon software that originated in his laboratory is used by hundreds of researchers around the world. In 1998 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2006 he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.