Professor

322 Coulter Hall
662-915-7301  |  tschumpr@olemiss.edu

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
B.S., Winona State University, 1995
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1999
Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 1999-2000
Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, 2000-2001
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, 2001-2007
Associate Professor, University of Mississippi, 2007-2013
Professor, University of Mississippi, 2013-present
Chair, University of Mississippi Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2016 – 2023

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Achievement Award
Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Honor Society) Member
University of Mississippi Faculty Achievement Award
Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teacher of Freshmen
University of Mississippi Faculty Research Fellow
Research Corporation Research Innovation Award
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
University of Mississippi Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award

RESEARCH INTERESTS
physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry, non-covalent interactions, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces

GROUP WEBPAGE

RESEARCH SUMMARY
My research group is devoted to obtaining answers and insight to important chemical problems in essentially every area of chemistry, especially biological and organic chemistry, through theory and computation rather than experimentation. Chemistry is largely governed by the physics of electrons. Because the quantum mechanical Schrodinger Equation, HΨ = EΨ, properly describes the physics of small objects such as electrons, its solutions can provide insight into the chemistry of atoms and molecules. Due to the complexity of the underlying mathematics, such solutions can only be obtained with substantial computational resources.

Of particular interest are weak chemical interactions (hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, pi-type interactions, etc.) that play a vital role in a host of chemical, physical, and biological processes. Using extremely accurate electronic structure techniques, we probe the details of the underlying physics behind these interactions. We are also developing new computational methods that can reliably describe weak chemical interactions in large chemical or biochemical systems.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
See list of publications (with DOI links) at https://quantum.chem.olemiss.edu/pubs.html.