Sara Kadkhodaei

Assistant Professor

College of Engineering
Department of Civil, Materials and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Physical and mechanical properties of materials and the underlying phenomena in any materials-related process arise from the interaction and structure of basic constituents of matter. Owing to the progress of computer power, numerical simulations have become one of the most fundamental and reliable tools to unravel interactions at the electronic and atomic levels. In the Computational Materials Research Lab (CMRL), our research focuses on developing innovative theoretical and computational frameworks to bridge quantities at the electronic and atomic levels to materials formation, stability, and processes at the macroscopic level. Throughout our research efforts, we discover new materials with desired properties for a wide range of applications and unravel the underlying mechanisms for many materials-related phenomena.
- Ab-initio-based modeling of thermodynamics and kinetics in alloys, ceramics, and inorganic compounds
-Understanding phase stability, phase transformation, and diffusion-based processes in solids
-Artificial intelligence and machine learning in materials property prediction and materials discovery
-Developing software tools in computational materials science

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