Tom Markland is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University whose research interests lie broadly in the development of theoretical and simulation approaches and their application to explain effects observed in classical and quantum chemical systems. Tom received his MChem in Chemistry from Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was a Brackenbury Scholar and did his thesis work in non-adiabatic quantum dynamics. He continued at Oxford for his DPhil research in quantum dynamics under the supervision of Prof. David Manolopoulos, developing methods to include nuclear quantum effects in condensed-phase molecular simulations using the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics at almost classical cost. In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Coulson Prize. After postdoctoral work with Prof. Bruce Berne at Columbia University, he moved to Stanford in 2011 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. In 2018, he received tenure, and in 2025, he was promoted to Full Professor. Since starting at Stanford, his research has been recognized with a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholarship, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Terman Fellowship, Hellman Faculty Scholarship, the ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the H&S Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lectureship, and the ACS Early Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry. Tom’s group’s research has led to developments in fields ranging from methods to efficiently simulate quantum dynamics on ground- and excited-state surfaces and their application to proton, electron, and electronic energy transfer in liquids and enzymes, to theoretical approaches to exploit time-scale separation for quantum and biophysical processes, and machine learning algorithms and datasets for predicting electronic potential energy surfaces and the direct interpretation of experiments.

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