Dr. Xinyu Zhang comes to GL from Jilin University in China. Zhang will be working with Alex Goncharov on theoretical and experimental investigation of novel structure at high pressure for the next year.
Dr. Kelin Regina Tasca comes to GL as a Visiting Investigator from Brazil, by way of Howard University. She will be working with Dr. Alex Goncharov for a year on the study of fast chemical reactivity of energetic materials using novel ultrafast laser techniques.
Dr. Maxim Bykov joins GL from the University of Bayreuth as a Visiting Investigator. He will work with Dr. Alex Goncharov.
Dr. Elena Bykova is a new Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at GL.
Dr. Nico Küter (Kueter) is a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow who will be working with Dr. George Cody on investigating molar volume isotope effects on hydrogen incorporated as water in silicate melts.
Shuang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. He is an interdisciplinary geochemist, modeler and data scientist.
Dr. Rama K. Vasudevan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory presented on "Machine and Deep Learning for Materials Science: Current State and Future Prospects."
Active materials can interchange types of energy. In a new cover article in the journal molecules, Geophysical Lab Staff Scientist Ronald Cohen and his colleague Haiwu Zhang report on predictions of a new class of polar metallocene crystals, which may be useful as active materials.
Josh Sugar from Sandia National Laboratories presented on "The Thermal History of Materials: The Origin of Earth, Civilization, and Advanced Manufacturing."
Anton Oliynyk presented on "Accelerating the Discovery of Solid State Materials: From Traditional to Machine-Learning Approaches." Intermetallic compounds are bestowed by diverse compositions, complex structures, and useful properties for many materials
