Mat Halls, Senior Vice President of Materials Science, is the founder and leader of the materials science program at Schrödinger. Mat received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, under the supervision of Professor H. Bernhard Schlegel. Over the past 20 years, Mat has worked with Fortune 500 companies to advance the adoption of atomic-scale materials simulation and machine learning in diverse industries including aerospace, electronics and specialty chemicals. He has made significant research contributions in areas such as computational spectroscopy, organic optoelectronic materials, nanocarbon-polymer interfaces, thin-film precursors and deposition processes and battery electrolyte additives; with his work being cited more than 7000 times.