Robert J. Harrison

Who is Robert J. Harrison?

Robert J. Harrison is Director of the Joint Institute of Computational Science and holds a joint appointment between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the department of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The National Institute for Computational Sciences is part of JICS.

He has many publications in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of theoretical and computational chemistry, and high-performance computing. His undergraduate and post-graduate degrees were obtained at Cambridge University, England. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Quantum Theory Project, Univ. Florida, and the Daresbury Laboratory, England, before joining the staff of the theoretical chemistry group at Argonne National Laboratory in 1988. In 1992, he moved to the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, conducting research in theoretical chemistry and leading the development of NWChem, a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers. In August 2002, he started the joint faculty appointment with UT/ORNL, and became director of JICS in 2011.