James R. Chelikowsky

James R. Chelikowsky is a professor of physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin.

[1] Chelikowsky is known for his research on the optical and dielectric properties of semiconductors, surface and interfacial phenomena in solids, point and extended defects in electronic materials, pressure-induced amorphization in silicates and disordered systems, clusters and confined systems, and the diffusion and microstructure of liquids.

[2] His current research interests include quantum models for functionalized nanostructures, simulated images from probe microscopies, materials informatics applied to the prediction of novel magnetic materials  and high performance algorithms for solving the electronic structure problem.

In 1987 Chelikowsky became a professor at the University of Minnesota within the department of chemical engineering and materials science.

Chair of Computational Materials and professor in the Departments of Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Chemistry and Biochemistry in January 2005.