Francesco Evangelista

Born September 20, 1980, in Vasto, Italy

Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Georgia, USA

Email:evangelista@emory.edu
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B.A., University of Pisa (2004); Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore (2004); Ph.D., University of Georgia (2008); Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010); U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award (2016); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2016); Dirac Medal, World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (2017); Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2018); Medal, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2020); Hirschfelder Distinguished Visitor Award, University of Wisconsin (2023); Robert S. Mulliken Award, University of Georgia (2023)

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Important Contributions:

• Introduced the driven similarity renormalization group (DSRG) formalism. Created perturbative and nonperturbative multireference electronic structure methods based on the DSRG for ground and excited states.
• Developed adaptive active space solvers based on selected configuration interaction techniques and integrated them with DSRG treatments of dynamical electron correlation.
• Developed quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry based on projective methods, as well as Quantum Krylov approaches based on real-time propagation, and demonstrated hybrid quantum-classical simulations of chemical reactions through DSRG downfolding combined with the Variational Quantum Eigensolver in hardware experiments.
• Established fundamental results for fermionic unitary exponential operators, including their representational power and closed-form unitary transformations.