Carlos Gonzalez

Chief of the Chemical Sciences Division

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Dr. Gonzalez earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry at the Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela in 1981. He then worked on his M.A. degree in Physical Chemistry at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1985. Dr. Gonzalez received his Ph.D in Theoretical Chemistry at Wayne State University, in 1990. He then moved in 1991 to Pittsburgh where he worked as a postdoctoral associate in Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. John A. Pople, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1998. He joined the Chemical Sciences and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1997 as a Research Chemist, after spending 5 years as a Research Specialist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University. In 2002, Dr. Gonzalez became the Leader of the Computational Chemistry Group in CSTL at NIST, and in 2007, he became the Chief of the Chemical and Biochemical Reference Data Division. During the past 12 years, Dr. Gonzalez has worked as the Chief of the Chemical Sciences Division at NIST, one of the largest Divisions at NIST (with over 170 staff members) in charge of providing the Chemical Function within the National Institute of Standards and Technology