Dr Elena Levchenko

Qualifications

• PhD, Voronezh State Technical University, 2002

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Research

Research keywords

• Atomistic Simulation of materials
• Defects
• Diffusion
• Embedded Atom Method
• Hollow nanoparticles
• Metallic Glasses
• Molecular dynamics
• Phase Transitions
• computational mechanical engineering
• nanoparticles

Research expertise

Molecular Dynamics - numerical simulation of processes in solid matter

Collaboration

National collaborations:

• At the University of Newcastle in particular with Dr Alexander Evteev, Profs Irina Belova and Graeme Murch

• Dr Daniel Riley (Australia) at ANSTO has resulted in elucidating mechanisms and alloying pathways of kinetic reactions in Ni-Al nanoparticles

• Prof. Michael Ferry (University of New South Wales) on the synthesis, characterisation and processing of bulk metallic glasses.

International collaborations:

• Prof. Alexander Kosilov (Voronezh State University, Russia) on computer simulations of structure and mechanical properties of metallic glasses. [e.g. JETP Lett., 2002; BP1, J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 2004, 2005, 2007, J36, J47, J54].

• Prof. Walter Jose Botta Filho, Univ. Federale Sao Carlos, Brazil on the project “Deformation in Nanomaterials”;

• the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France [e.g. J Metastable Nanocryst. Mater., 2004].

• Prof. Alain Reza Yavari, Head of EURONANO team on Metastable, amorphous and nanostructured materials, on the project “Modelling of structure of Bulk Metallic Glasses” at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (France);

• Prof. Valentin Ievlev resulted in establishing the principles of oriented crystallization of bi-metallic thin films [e.g. Solid State Phenom. 2006].

• Prof. Rafal Kozubski from Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Prof. Veronique Pierron-Bohnes from the Institute for Physics and Chemistry of Materials in Strasbourg on elucidating atomic mechanisms of diffusion in nanosystems

• Prof. Alain Yavari from The Grenoble Institute of Technology and Prof. Dmitri Louzguine from Tohoku University:several projects on bulk metallic glasses (2012-present)

Languages

• Russian
• Ukrainian

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
091307	Numerical Modelling And Mechanical Characterisation	50
091308	Solid Mechanics	40
100708	Nanomaterials	10

Centres and Groups

Centre

• PRC - Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modelling

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

• Australian Research Network of Advanced Materials (ARNAM)

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

• Member - International Advisory Scientific Committee of the conference series of Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials(RQ)

Awards

fellowship

2007	University of Newcastle Research Fellowship University of Newcastle (Australia)

Honours.

1999	Engineering degree diploma with honours Voronezh State Technical University (Russian Federation) Engineering degree diploma with honours

Other

2004	competative postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the European Commision European Commission (France)

Recognition.

2009	2009 UoN Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Research Publications The University of Newcastle (Australia) 2009 UoN Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Research Publications
2008	2008 UoN Publication Incentive Award The University of Newcastle (Australia) 2008 UoN Publication Incentive Award

Research Award.

2001	Research Fellowship of the Voronezh Council Voronezh Council (Russian Federation)

Invitations

Organiser of the Symposium on Molecular dynamics simulation of diffusion and related processes at the 7th International conference on Diffusion in solids and liquids International conference on Diffusion in solids and liquids ( )

2011

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• - Crystallography
• - Metrology, Standardization, Certification
• Computer Simulation
• ISO 9000
• Materials Science
• Metrology
• Qualimetry and Quality Management
• Solid State Physics
• mechanical engineering

Teaching expertise

MECH 2700 Thermofluids

MECH 2450 Engineering Computations

MECH 2250 Materials Science and Engineering

GENG 1001 Introduction to mechanical engineering

MECH2420 ENGINEERING MECHANICS