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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his outstanding contributions to electronic structure and quantum manybody theories, in particular developments in coupledcluster theory, important advances in understanding molecular properties, chemical reactivities and intermolecular interactions as well as nuclear structure, through discerning use of computational methods
  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Piotr Piecuch is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Chemistry, with significant specialization in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Quantum superfluid helium dynamics, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications.

Piercing together a research profile from publication venues, Piecuch has published frequently in:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Molecular Physics
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Notable recent papers include:

  • Recent developments in the general atomic and molecular electronic structure system, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science, 2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Ground State Electronic Energy of Benzene, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Photoluminescence, photophysics, and photochemistry of the VB⁻ defect in hexagonal boron nitride, 2020, Physical Review B
  • The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS): Novel Methods on Novel Architectures, 2023, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Frequent co-authors of Piecuch include Jun Shen, Karthik Gururangan, Ilias Magoulas, Stephen H. Yuwono, and J. Emiliano Deustua.

Throughout their career, Piecuch has been recognized with several awards, including Fellowships from major scientific organizations:

  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008) for contributions to electronic structure and quantum many-body theories, molecular properties, chemical reactivities, intermolecular interactions, and nuclear structure through computational methods
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011)

Best Publications

  • Recent developments in the general atomic and molecular electronic structure system.

    Giuseppe M.J. Barca;Colleen Bertoni;Laura Carrington;Dipayan Datta

  • Efficient computer implementation of the renormalized coupled-cluster methods: The R-CCSD[T], R-CCSD(T), CR-CCSD[T], and CR-CCSD(T) approaches

    Piotr Piecuch;Stanisław A. Kucharski;Karol Kowalski;Monika Musiał

  • The method of moments of coupled-cluster equations and the renormalized CCSD[T], CCSD(T), CCSD(TQ), and CCSDT(Q) approaches

    Karol Kowalski;Piotr Piecuch

  • Renormalized coupled-cluster methods exploiting left eigenstates of the similarity-transformed Hamiltonian.

    Piotr Piecuch;Marta Włoch

  • A state-selective multireference coupled-cluster theory employing the single-reference formalism

    Piotr Piecuch;Nevin Oliphant;Nevin Oliphant;Ludwik Adamowicz

  • New coupled-cluster methods with singles, doubles, and noniterative triples for high accuracy calculations of excited electronic states.

    Karol Kowalski;Piotr Piecuch

  • The active-space equation-of-motion coupled-cluster methods for excited electronic states: Full EOMCCSDt

    Karol Kowalski;Piotr Piecuch

  • Recent advances in electronic structure theory: Method of moments of coupled-cluster equations and renormalized coupled-cluster approaches

    Piotr Piecuch;Karol Kowalski;Ian S. O. Pimienta;Michael J. Mcguire

  • Coupled-cluster methods with internal and semi-internal triply and quadruply excited clusters: CCSDt and CCSDtq approaches

    Piotr Piecuch;Stanisław A. Kucharski;Rodney J. Bartlett

  • DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

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  • Application of Hilbert-space coupled-cluster theory to simple (H 2 ) 2 model systems. II. Nonplanar models

    Piotr Piecuch;Piotr Piecuch;Josef Paldus;Josef Paldus

  • Local correlation calculations using standard and renormalized coupled-cluster approaches.

    Wei Li;Piotr Piecuch;Jeffrey R. Gour;Shuhua Li

  • STATE-SELECTIVE MULTIREFERENCE COUPLED-CLUSTER THEORY EMPLOYING THE SINGLE-REFERENCE FORMALISM : IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION TO THE H8 MODEL SYSTEM

    Piotr Piecuch;Ludwik Adamowicz

  • Renormalized CCSD(T) and CCSD(TQ) approaches: Dissociation of the N2 triple bond

    Karol Kowalski;Piotr Piecuch

  • Theoretical models on the Cu2O2 torture track: mechanistic implications for oxytyrosinase and small-molecule analogues.

    Christopher J. Cramer;Marta Włoch;Piotr Piecuch;Cristina Puzzarini

  • Method of moments of coupled-cluster equations: a new formalism for designing accurate electronic structure methods for ground and excited states

    P. Piecuch;K. Kowalski;I. S. O. Pimienta;P.-D. Fan

  • Single-reference, size-extensive, non-iterative coupled-cluster approaches to bond breaking and biradicals

    Piotr Piecuch;Marta Włoch;Jeffrey R. Gour;Armagan Kinal

  • Where does the planar-to-nonplanar turnover occur in small gold clusters?

    Ryan M. Olson;Sergey Aleksandrovich Varganov;Mark S. Gordon;Horia Metiu

  • Extension of the Renormalized Coupled-Cluster Methods Exploiting Left Eigenstates of the Similarity-Transformed Hamiltonian to Open-Shell Systems: A Benchmark Study†

    Marta Włoch;Jeffrey R. Gour;Piotr Piecuch

  • Coupled-cluster theory for three-body Hamiltonians

    Gaute Hagen;Gaute Hagen;Gaute Hagen;Thomas F Papenbrock;Thomas F Papenbrock;David Jarvis Dean;A. Schwenk;A. Schwenk

  • Coupled Cluster Calculations of Ground and Excited States of Nuclei

    K. Kowalski;D. J. Dean;M. Hjorth-Jensen;T. Papenbrock;T. Papenbrock

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Paldus
Josef Paldus University of Waterloo
Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar University of Minnesota
Marcos Dantus
Marcos Dantus Michigan State University
Ludwik Adamowicz
Ludwik Adamowicz University of Arizona
Babak Borhan
Babak Borhan Michigan State University
Mark S. Gordon
Mark S. Gordon Iowa State University
Laura Gagliardi
Laura Gagliardi University of Chicago
James E. Jackson
James E. Jackson Michigan State University
Christopher J. Cramer
Christopher J. Cramer UL Research Institutes
António J. C. Varandas
António J. C. Varandas University of Coimbra

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