Chan attended the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Christ's College. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1996 and completed his Ph.D. in 2000.[1] Following his graduate studies, he moved to the United States as a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he held from 2000 to 2002. He subsequently completed postdoctoral work at Cambridge as a Todd-Croucher Junior Research Fellow.[2]
In 2004, Chan joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, eventually serving as an Associate Professor until 2012. He was recruited to Princeton University in 2012, where he served as the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry from 2012 to 2016. Chan moved to the California Institute of Technology in 2016 to assume his current role as the Bren Professor of Chemistry.[1]
Research and recognition
Chan's scientific work centers on understanding the electronic structure of complex materials and molecules. He and his research group have advanced quantum simulations in areas such as strong electron correlation, many-particle problems in the condensed phase, dynamical simulations of spectra, and coupling between electron and nuclear degrees of freedom. Advances in numerical techniques include density matrix renormalization, canonical transformation-based down-foldings, tensor network algorithms, local quantum chemistry methods, quantum embeddings, and new quantum Monte Carlo algorithms.
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