Dr. Zachary Hood is a materials scientist in the Applied Materials Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

Physicist & computational scientist with expertise in chemistry, condensed matter physics, & computational physics. He specializes in methods & applications of Density Functional Theory, Quantum Chemistry, & Quantum Monte Carlo for functional materials.

Murat has experience in developing & implementing scalable methods related to electronic & vibrational structure of molecules & extended systems. He has interest in applying deep learning methods for accurate calculations of thermochemical properties.