Principal Researcher - Dr. Alexander Evteev

Diffusion in Solids Group
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Phone: +61 2 4921 6121
Fax: +61 2 4921 6946
Email: Alexander.Evteev@newcastle.edu.au

Qualifications:
DSc (Russia), PhD (Russia)

Research Areas:
Molecular Dynamics - numerical simulation of processes in solid matter.

Fellowships:
Competitive Young Scientist's Fellowship for the research work "Elaboration of Atomic Model of Formation and Structure Evolution of Amorphous Metallic Systems", the Voronezh Region Council (Russia), 2002

Awards:
Supervisor of the Best University Diploma in Materials Engineering at Voronezh State Technical University, 2006
Supervisor of the Best University Diploma in Materials Science in Russia Award, 2004
Golden Frond of Voronezh Region, Nomination, "Science" Award, 2004
The prize for "Outstanding Young Scientists of Voronezh Region" by the Voronezh Region Council (Russia), 2004.
Third Prize for "Young Scientists: by the Russian Academy of Science in section "Physics, Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials",2003
Gold medal in Math University Competition, 1990

Major Projects:
Molecular dynamics study of carbon mobility in austenite.
Theoretical investigation of the shrinking kinetics and stability of hollow nanospheres.
Atomic mechanisms of diffusion in cementite.
Surface segregation in bimetallic nanoparticles.
Structural model of glass transition of metals
Principles of structure organization of metal-metalloid amorphous alloys
Surface diffusion of ad-atoms, self-organization of nanostructures at the initial stages of film growth and oriented crystallization of thin films.
Hydrogen diffusion in Pd monocrystal
Influence of temperature on non-diffusion phase transformations under superspeed deformation of BCC-iron nanocrystals with [001] orientation
Interstitial diffusion in metals.