Principal Researcher - Dr. Elena Levchenko

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: Elena.Levchenko@newcastle.edu.au

Qualifications:
PhD (Russia)

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

Fellowships:
University of Newcastle Research Fellowship - "Modelling of hollow nanoparticles for advanced technologies" 2007
Competitive Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - "Ductile Bulk Metallic Glass Composites" sponsored by the European Commission, 2004
Postgraduate Student’s Research Fellowship - "Computer Simulation of the Amorphous Materials" of the Voronezh Council, 2001

Awards:
Research Associate in the Marie Curie Project (European Commission), 2004

Research Projects:
Molecular dynamics study of carbon diffusion in austenite.
Theoretical investigation of the shrinking kinetics and stability of hollow nanospheres.
Atomic mechanisms of diffusion in cementite.
Surface segregation in bimetallic nanoparticles.
Atomic level study of heterogeneous deformation in Cu-Zr bulk metallic glasses (many-body potentials – embedded atom method).
Structural models of glass transitions of pure metals and metal-metalloid alloys
Numerical calculation of structure functions of bulk and ribbon metallic glasses obtained from diffraction intensity data by real-time experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facilities.