Hrant P. Hratchian
- hhratchian@ucmerced.edu
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Hrant P. Hratchian is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Vice Provost and Dean for Graduate Education at the University of California Merced. A Michigan native, he obtained his B.S. degree in chemistry from Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI) and completed doctoral studies under the tutelage of Professor H. Bernhard Schlegel at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) where he was an NSF-IGERT Graduate Fellow. From 2005-2008 he was the Ernest R. Davidson Postdoctoral Fellow at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), where he worked with Professor Krishnan Raghavachari. From 2008-2013, he was a Research Scientist at Gaussian, Inc. (Wallingford, CT). In 2013, he joined the faculty at the University of California Merced in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
Professor Hratchian has served in a number of additional leadership roles at UC Merced, including as Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Chair, Interim co-Director of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Computing, and as Chair of the Academic Senate's Graduate Council. Professor Hratchian has been honored with a Hellman Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award. He and his research group have received extramural funding support from the Petroleum Research Fund, Hellman Family Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy. Professor Hratchian’s research interests include the development and application of efficient computational chemistry methods to explore the unique properties of transition metals and catalyzed chemical transformations.
Professor Hratchian has served in a number of additional leadership roles at UC Merced, including as Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Chair, Interim co-Director of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Computing, and as Chair of the Academic Senate's Graduate Council. Professor Hratchian has been honored with a Hellman Foundation Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award. He and his research group have received extramural funding support from the Petroleum Research Fund, Hellman Family Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy. Professor Hratchian’s research interests include the development and application of efficient computational chemistry methods to explore the unique properties of transition metals and catalyzed chemical transformations.
