Professor Jiménez-Hoyos is interested in developing new electronic structure methods for quantum chemical problems. His work focuses on developing practical, low-cost approaches to study the chemical properties of strongly correlated molecules (such as molecular magnets or multi-metal centers in enzymes) and the excited states in molecular aggregates. He is also interested in developing new tools to study catalytic reactions on transition metal surfaces using quantum embedding methods.

Professor Jiménez-Hoyos received his BS degree in Chemistry from Monterrey Tech, in Mexico. He started doing computational chemistry research while spending two summers working with Michael Hall at Texas A&M University. He then attended Rice University where he received his PhD degree working under the direction of Gustavo Scuseria on the development of low-computational cost approaches to deal with strongly correlated electron systems. He then joined the group of Garnet Chan at Princeton University (and later Caltech), where he worked on the development of quantum embedding approaches in chemistry.