Mathew Chow — 2025 Wormit Award Winner

The winner of the 2025 Michael Wormit Award is Mathew Chow! He is recognized for his outstanding work as a Q-Chem developer, particularly his work developing nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) methods for studying nuclear quantum effects in molecular systems.

Mathew is currently pursuing a PhD in Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer's group at Princeton University. He has made many valuable contributions to the NEO code in Q-Chem, including new implementations of multiscale approaches such as the polarizable continuum model (PCM) and the hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approach for NEO methods. He worked on the NEO-PCM code, as well as improving Q-Chem's PCM code more generally, during his internship at Q-Chem in 2022, and continues to make significant contributions to the code base and documentation.

The Michael Wormit Award was established in 2016 to recognize excellence in the development of new methods and algorithms in electronic structure theory and the implementation of these methods in state-of-the-art software within the Q-Chem open-teamware community project.

Mathew will be giving a special webinar on August 21, 2025 about his work.

Congratulations, Mathew!