Eric Van Dornshuld
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Chemistry
Mississippi State University
I am a computational chemist with a wide variety of research interests. I was trained under the direction of Prof. Gregory S. Tschumper and have adpoted the mantra of “getting the right answer for the right reason”. Consequently, I enjoy finding small molecule systems I can apply accurate, convergent quantum chemistry methods to. I get especially excited when common and relatively inexpensive methodologies (such as density functional approximations) give qualitatively incorrect results. I am also the faculty advisor to the Mississippi State Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS ) and MSU Esports. We do lots of fun stuff.
Interests
- Computational chemistry
- Teaching
- Course/curriculum development
- SMACS
- MSU Esports
Education
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PhD in Computational Chemistry, 2014
University of Mississippi
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BS in Chemistry, 2009
University of North Florida