New Electron Correlation Methods and their Applications, and Use of Atomic Orbitals with Exponential Asymptotes

Monika Musial graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice (MSc in theoretical chemistry) in 1996. She received her Ph.D degree in 2002 (University of Silesia in Katowice) for the work on the development of new coupled cluster models including high-rank cluster operators. In the following years she spent some time in Quantum Theory Project (University of Florida, Gainesville) working as a postdoctoral associate in the research group of Professor Rodney J. Bartlett. In 2010 she made her habilitation (with distinction, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw) and later in 2014 she received a full professor position. In the following years she continued collaboration with prof. Bartlett as a visiting researcher/professor in Quantum Theory Project. She also made short term visits to the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, USA and Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
Currently, she is a Professor of Chemistry in the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her research interests are focused on the development of new computational methods within the framework of the coupled cluster theory. The new approaches are aimed at the accurate determination of energies and properties of ground and excited states. These tools are particularly useful in studies of potential energy curves and owing to that they can be used in the accurate description of a dissociation process. Such highly accurate methods are necessary in the studies of molecules in ultralow temperatures where the precise knowledge of interatomic interactions in the whole range of the distance between engaged atoms is required.
She supervised several research projects focused on the development of new methods devoted to the theory of electron correlation (e.g., from National Science Centre in Poland). She organized international conferences: 15th Central European Sympos

ium on Theoretical Chemistry held in Poland in September 2017; co-chaired (with Prof. Krzysztof Pachucki from University of Warsaw) Warsaw Molecular Electronic Structure Virtual Conference (September 2020). She is a member of Scientific Committee organizing Molecular Electronic Structure conferences. She was a supervisor for a number of Ph.D. thesis at the University of Silesia and she was a member/reviewer in several research funding committees.