Debashree Ghosh (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)
For her creative applications of strongly correlated methods and a novel excited state scheme to elucidate bonding in molecules, with important applications to fluorescent protein systems and the bio-pigment melanin.
Giulia Galli (University of Chicago, USA)
Eberhard K. U. Gross (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Peter J. Rossky (Rice University, USA)
Joachim Sauer (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Francesco Evangelista (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
For his significant contributions to multireference coupled cluster methods, the driven similarity renormalization group approach, adaptive configuration interaction, and quantum computing.
Tucker Carrington (Queens University, Canada)
Laura Gagliardi (University of Minnesota, USA)
Péter Szalay (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Takeshi Yanai (Nagoya University, Japan)
Julien Toulouse (Sorbonne University, France)
For his deep and original contributions to the development of electron-correlation methods at the interface of wave-function theory (WFT) and density-functional theory (DFT), with important contributions to range-separated DFT, double-hybrid DFT, and the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method.