Victor Batista
John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry
Yale University
Yale University
Elected to the Academy in 2023
Education
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1989, BS, Chemistry; Boston University, 1997, PhD, Chemistry
Professional Area
Development and application of quantum methods for solving problems in energy sciences, inorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry and catalysis, including electrocatalysis.
Citation
Distinguished for contributions towards the molecular-level understanding of chemical and biological systems via theoretical and computational techniques. Batista has studied catalytic processes in natural and artificial photosynthetic systems and has developed new methods for describing electron transfer at interfaces, nonlinear spectroscopy, and allosteric mechanisms in photoreceptors and enzymes.