Dr. Van Voorhis received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics from Rice University and his PhD in chemistry from UC Berkeley. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, he joined the faculty of MIT. His research focuses on the intersection of quantum mechanics and chemistry. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications, a fellow of the David & Lucille Packard foundation, and has spoken at Veritas Forums at MIT, Bowdoin College, U of Rhode Island, and UC Berkeley.