Angela K. Wilson

Angela K. Wilson is an American computational chemist. She is currently the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the department of chemistry of Michigan State University. Previously she was professor of computational chemistry and director of the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) at the University of North Texas. In March 2016, Wilson began as the Chemistry Division Director of the National Science Foundation.

Career

Wilson received her bachelor of science from Eastern Washington University in 1990 and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1995. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 1995 to 1997. She served previously on the faculties of the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, and University of North Texas before joining Michigan State University in 2016.

Wilson is editor of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, a member of the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Scientific Reports, and was a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

She has edited three books including Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry.

Awards and Honors

• NSF CAREER Award, 2003
• Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2013
• Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal, 2015

She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2010), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), and the American Physical Society (2013).