Neepa Maitra

Neepa T. Maitra is a theoretical physicist and was a professor of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She now works as a professor at Rutgers, in the field of theoretical chemical physics. She is most well known for her contributions to theoretical chemistry and chemical physics, especially in the development of accurate functionals in time-dependent density functional theory and correlated electron-ion dynamics.

Early life and education Maitra was born in September 1972, raised in New Zealand, and completed her bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Otago in 1994. She went on to get her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard Universityin 2000 in the lab of Eric "Rick" Heller and postdoctoral at the University of California, Berkeley, and Rutgers University. Maitra is currently in the Department of Physics at Rutgers University-Newark.

Research projects and publications Time-dependent density functional theory is an area to investigate the properties of various functionals and has a wide range of implications and applications.

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Exact factorization approach is a way to explore numerical stability of equations, and improve understanding of exact potentials and equations. In August 2023, Maitra presented remotely at the Progress in Non-Equilibrium Green's Function Workshop in Orebro, Sweden discussing recent work on perspectives on TDDFT beyond linear response.

Awards Maitra received an NSF Career Award for her work in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.

Maitra received an NSF Award for her work on Molecules in Classical and Quantized Fields.

Maitra was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2024 for "fundamental contributions to the development of time-dependent density functional theory, identifying rigorous properties of the time-dependent exchange-correlation functional, and seminal work on the correlated motion of electrons and nuclei beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation."(From APS)