Murat Keceli

Murat Keçeli is a Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. His primary research goal is to accelerate chemical discovery to address the pressing challenges of the 21^st century, such as sustainable energy, environmental protection, and advanced materials design. While quantum mechanics provides the fundamental framework for understanding chemical interactions, the complexity of these equations makes exact solutions unattainable, even on the most powerful supercomputers. By developing novel computational methods and integrating artificial intelligence with high-performance computing, Murat aims to overcome these limitations, unlocking new possibilities in materials and molecular discovery.

Murat received BS and MS degrees in physics (supervised by Prof. Özgür Oktel) from Bilkent University and a PhD degree in chemical physics (supervised by Prof. So Hirata) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduation, he joined Prof. Bill Green’s group at MIT, and worked on kinetic model reduction methods and reaction mechanism generator code. He joined Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher supervised by Dr. Al Wagner and later by Dr. Stephen Klippenstein. A list of his publications can be found here.