Dr. Gary Hoffman obtained his PhD under the direction of Prof. Martin Karplus at Harvard University.  His thesis was in the area of theoretical chemistry.  He spent three years as a Directors Funded Post-doc at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with Dr. Lawrence Pratt.  He has continued to collaborate with Dr. Pratt over the years.  The next stage in Dr. Hoffman's career was a job as a faculty member at Florida International University, where he worked for the next twelve years.  He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor during this time and became Chair of the Department of Chemistry during his final year there.  In the Summer of 2002, Dr. Hoffman came to Elizabethtown College, where he has since been granted tenure and is now serving as Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.  He continues to perform research in the general area of theoretical chemistry, focusing mainly on electronic structure theory.