Dr. Pederson joins UTEP, after years of government service as a research scientist and program manager, with a research background in chemical physics, condensed-matter physics, and computational physics. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison – where he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni in the Department of Physics – and bachelors’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• Ph D in Theoretical Physics, University of Wisconsin (1986)
• BS in Physics, University of Michigan (1981)

• A multiferroic molecular magnetic qubit Journal of Chemical Physics 151 (2019), Alexander I. Johnson, M F. Islam, Carlo Canali, Mark R. Pederson.
• Magnetic Signatures of Hydroxyl‐ and Water‐Terminated Neutral and Tetra‐Anionic Mn12‐Acetate Journal of Computational Chemistry (2019), Javaria Batool, Torsten Hahn, Mark R. Pederson.
• Theoretical studies of the vibrational properties of octahedrane (C12H12): A polyhedral caged hydrocarbon molecule JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 150 21 (2019), Daniel Finkenstadt, Michael J. Mehl, Mark R. Pederson, Steven L. Richardson.
• Orbital-dependent improvements to density-functional approximations: Application to highly charged molecular anions ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 255 (2018), Mark R. Pederson, Javaria Batool.
• Full self-consistency in the Fermi-orbital self-interaction correction PHYSICAL REVIEW A 95 5 (2017), Zeng-hui Yang, Mark R. Pederson, John P. Perdew.

• Molecular Magnets for Spectroscopic Sensing of Chemical Reactions and Qubits (2019), Volume Baton Rouge Lousiana, Mark R. Pederson.
• Molecular Magnets for Spectroscopic Sensing of Chemical Reactions and Qubits (2019), Volume New Orleans, Louisiana, Mark R. Pederson.
• Molecular Magnets for Spectroscopic Sensing of Chemical Reactions and Qubits (2019), Volume Richmond, Mark R. Pederson.
• Molecular Magnets for Spectroscopic Sensing of Chemical Reactions and Qubits (2019), Volume Los Alamos, New Mexico, Mark R. Pederson.
• FLOSIC at Five: Challenges, Complexities and Simplifications (2019), Volume Freiberg Germany, Mark R. Pederson.

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