Dr. Mathew D. Halls Ph.D.

Mathew D. Halls is the Senior Vice President of Materials Science at Schrödinger Inc. He obtained a PhD in Quantum Chemistry from Wayne State University in 2001, under the direction of Professor Berny Schlegel. Prior to joining Schrödinger in 2012, he worked at Materials Design and Accelrys (now Biovia). Before that he held the E.R. Davidson Fellowship in theoretical chemistry at Indiana University, and earlier was the Manager of the Scientific Simulation Group at Zyvex Corporation. Mat has worked with Fortune 500 companies to advance the adoption of atomic-scale materials modeling techniques in diverse industries including aerospace, electronics and specialty chemicals. He has made significant research contributions in areas such as computational spectroscopy, organic optoelectronic materials, nanocarbon-polymer interfaces, thin-film precursors and deposition processes and battery electrolyte additives; with his work being cited more than 6000 times.