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NEW [2/20/2013] S. Curtarolo, G. L. W. Hart, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, N. Mingo, S. Sanvito, and O. Levy, The high-throughput highway to computational materials design, Nature Materials 12(3), 191-201 (2013). [doi=10.1038/NMAT3568]

Energy Materials Laboratory - Curtarolo Group at Duke University
Welcome to the Energy Materials Laboratory - Curtarolo Group
MEMBERS
Prof. Stefano Curtarolo (Professor of Materials Science and Physics)
Dr. Shidong Wang (Research Scientist)
Dr. Keson Yang (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Dr. Camilo Emiliano Calderon (Postdoctoral Researcher, Sept. 2012)
Dr. Cormac Toher (Postdoctoral Researcher, Jan. 2013)
Dr. Kevin M. Rasch (Postdoctoral Researcher, April 2013)
Mr. Junkai Xue (Graduate Student)
Mr. Richard Taylor (Graduate Student)
Dr. Mike Mehl (Visitor from NRL)
Dr. Ohad Levy (Visitor from NRCN)
Ms. Anna Hirsch (Visiting Graduate Student from the Weizmann Istitute of Science)
FORMER MEMBERS
Dr. Cheng-Ing Chia (Postdoctoral Researcher, Aug. 2012 - March 2013)
Dr. Roman Chepulskyy (Postdoctoral Researcher, now at Samsung Electronics)
Dr. Michal Jahnatek (Postdoctoral Researcher, now at IBM) Dr. Wahyu Setyawan (Student/Postdoctoral Researcher, now Research Scientist at PNNL)
Dr. Aleksey N. Kolmogorov (Assistant Prof. of Physics at SUNY, Binghamton)
Dr. Aiqin Jiang (Postdoctoral Researcher, now at Accelrys)
Dr. Neha Awasthi (former Graduate Student, now Postdoc at the MPI)
Dr. Jeff Thomas (Research professor shared with Earl Dowell's group)
Dr. Felipe Cervantes Sodi (former Visiting Graduate Student from U. Cambridge, now Asst. Prof. at University Ibroamericana)

AWARDS and HONORS
2011 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics
2011 Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP)
2010 Cover for Physical Review Letters 103(5)
2009 Feinberg Foundation Visiting Faculty Program Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science
2007 PECASE Presidential Award: Department of Defense
2007 NSF-Career Award
2007 ONR-Young Investigator Award
2005 Best paper published in 2005 in CALPHAD
2002 Material Research Society (MRS) Silver Medal Graduate Student Award

Research interests:
Materials for Energy Storage
Materials for Energy Conversion (catalysis, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics)
Materials for Energy Transportation (topological insulators)
Materials for Nuclear Detection (scintillators)
Computational Nanotechnology
Combinatorial Materials Science
Adsorption and fuel storage in Nanostructures
High-Throughput ab-initio computing: transition-metal binary alloys
Titanium alloys
Alloy theory, genetic algorithms
Multiscale modeling of materials
Quasicrystalline surfaces
Nano catalysis (an-initio thermodynamic)

Research Sponsors:
Office of Naval Research

Honda Corporation

American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund

Nasa

NSF