Biography

Mat Halls, Senior VP of Materials Science, is the founder and leader of the materials science program at Schrödinger. Mat received his PhD in 2001 from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.

Over the past 20 years, 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 computational spectroscopy, organic optoelectronic materials, nanocarbon-polymer interfaces, thin-film precursors and deposition processes, and battery electrolyte additives. His work has been cited more than 6000 times.