David L. Cooper (University of Liverpool) is a theoretical chemist whose work focuses on modern valence-bond descriptions of electronic structure and chemical bonding, with particular emphasis on the spin-coupled generalized valence bond (SCGVB) approach as a highly visual yet accurate framework for describing correlated electrons in molecules. His research applies these methods to small molecules and reaction mechanisms. He also develops and applies wavefunction- and density-based analysis tools and he contributes to implementations of the CASVB approach within widely used packages such as MOLPRO.
