Emily A. Carter

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Emily A. Carter
Executive Vice Chancellor Emily A. Carter, distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA. Picture taken at a town hall at UCLA Luskin in Los Angeles in Fall 2019.jpg
Carter in 2019
Born
Los Gatos, California
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical chemistry
Institutions
Thesis Finesse in Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Energetics Relevant for Reaction Mechanisms  (1987)
Doctoral advisor William Andrew Goddard III
Doctoral students Todd Martínez
Website https://www.pppl.gov/research/applied-materials-and-sustainability-sciences

Emily A. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE), and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She is also a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), serving as Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences.

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The author of over 475 publications and patents, Carter has delivered over 600 invited and plenary lectures worldwide and has served on advisory boards spanning a wide range of disciplines. Among other honors, Carter is an elected foreign member of The Royal Society (2024), and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022), the National Academy of Inventors (2014), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), the Institute of Physics (2004), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), the American Vacuum Society (1995), [1] the American Physical Society (1994), [2] and the American Chemical Society. [3] She is also an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (2020), the National Academy of Engineering (2016), [4] International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2009), [5] [6] the National Academy of Sciences (2008). [7]

Biography

Emily Carter received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 (graduating Phi Beta Kappa). She earned her PhD in physical chemistry in 1987 from the California Institute of Technology, where she worked with William Andrew Goddard III, studying homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. [8] [2] [9] During her postdoc at the University of Colorado, Boulder, she worked with James T. Hynes carrying out studies on the dynamics of (photo-induced) electron transfer in solution. She also worked with James Hynes, Giovanni Ciccotti, and Ray Kapral to develop the widely used Blue Moon ensemble, a rare-event sampling method for condensed matter simulations. [10] [11] [12]

From 1988 to 2004, she held professorships in chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. During those years, she was the Dr. Lee's visiting research fellow in the Sciences at Christ Church, Oxford (1996), a visiting scholar in the department of physics at Harvard University (1999), and a visiting associate in aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (2001). She moved to Princeton University in 2004. [13]  In 2006, she was named Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor. From 2009 to 2014, she was co-director of the Department of Energy Frontier Research Center on Combustion Science. She became the founding director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in 2010, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in 2011, and dean of the school of engineering and applied science in 2016. [2] After a national search, Prof. Carter served from 2016 to 2019 as Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science [13] and the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment. She was also a professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She was an associated faculty member in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the department of chemistry, the department of chemical and biological engineering, the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE), the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM). She was the founding director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment from 2010 to 2016. [14]  She served as UCLA's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (EVCP) from 2019 to 2021 and was Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. [15] [9] She is currently a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), serving as Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences. [16]

Research

External videos
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg “Andlinger Center director Emily Carter lays out strategic vision for energy research”, Princeton Engineering
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg “Mechanisms of Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide“, Scuola Normale Superiore
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg “Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet“, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics

Carter has made significant contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry and physics, including the development of ab initio quantum chemistry methods, [17] methods for accurate description of molecules at the quantum level, and an algorithm for identifying transitional states in chemical reactions. [18] She pioneered the combination of ab initio quantum chemistry with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations (KMC), molecular dynamics (MD), and quasi-continuum solid mechanics simulations relevant to the study of surfaces and interfaces of materials. She has extensively investigated the chemical and mechanical causes and mechanisms of failure in materials such as silicon, germanium, iron and steel, and proposed methods for protecting materials from failure. [12]

She has developed fast methods for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) that can be applied to large numbers of atoms [19] as well as embedded correlated wavefunction theory for the study of local condensed matter electronic structure. [20] [21] This work has relevance to the understanding of photoelectrocatalysis. [19] [22] Her current research focuses on the understanding and design of materials for sustainable energy. [12] [23] Applications include conversion of sunlight to electricity, clean and efficient use of biofuels and solid oxide fuel cells, and development of materials for use in fuel-efficient vehicles and fusion reactors. [9] [24]

Carter's research is supported by multiple grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. She was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering (2016) for the development of quantum chemistry computational methods for the design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy.

Selected publications

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