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|doctoral_advisor = [[Emily A. Carter]]
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|prizes = [[MacArthur Fellow]] (2005) <br> [[Remsen Award]] (2021)
|known_for = [[ab initio multiple spawning]] technique for excited states dynamics; Hijacking videogame hardware for quantum chemistry
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Professor Martínez is a [[theoretical chemist]] whose research focuses primarily on developing first-principles approaches to chemical reaction dynamics, starting from the fundamental equations of [[quantum mechanics]]. He is particularly interested in electronically excited states and the response of molecules to light. Reactions of electronically excited molecules often involve [[conical intersection]]s, around which the potential energy surfaces have the shape of intersecting cones. He developed a method known as [[ab initio multiple spawning]], or AIMS, which predicts the dynamic evolution of systems having conical intersections. He has created models for photoinduced [[isomerization]] in [[retinal]], which represents the biophysical basis for vision. He has also shown how videogame hardware, especially graphical processing units (GPUs), can be used to accelerate quantum chemistry simulations.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Ufimtsev IS, Martínez TJ| year=2009| title=Quantum Chemistry on Graphical Processing Units. 3. Analytical Energy Gradient and First Principles Molecular Dynamics| journal=J. Chem. Theory Comput.| volume=5| issue=10|pages=2619–28| doi=10.1021/ct9003004| pmid=26631777}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115176&org=CHE|title=Videogame Technology or Science? |date=15 July 2009 |publisher=National Science Foundation}}</ref>
Martínez's research has been supported by an [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] Career Award, a [[MacArthur Foundation|MacArthur Foundation Fellowship]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calvin.edu/publications/spark/2006/summer/martinez-todd.htm|title=Alumni Profile - Todd J. Martinez |publisher=Calvin College Spark}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/september-2005/|title=MacArthur Foundation Profile |publisher=MacArthur Foundation}}</ref> a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a [[Beckman Young Investigators Award]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Todd Martinez |url=http://www.beckman-foundation.org/beckman-young-investigators/todd-martinez |website=Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> a Research Innovation Award, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and grants from the [[National Science Foundation|NSF]], [[United States Department of Energy|DOE]], [[NIH]], Research Corporation, and the [[Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)]]. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2011<ref>{{cite web|title=American Academy of Arts and Sciences Announces 2011 Class of Members|url=http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleaseContent.aspx?i=133}}</ref> and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2019-nas-election.html|title=2019 NAS Election|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref> In 2021 Martinez received the [[Remsen Award]].<ref>[https://acsmaryland.org/remsen-award/ Remsen Award 2021]</ref>
==Representative publications==
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