Nationality Argentinian Name Alejandro Strachan | Known for NNSA's PRISM, nanoHUB Institutions Purdue University | |
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Born October 3, 1971 (age 52) ( 1971-10-03 ) Fields Predictive atomistic and molecular simultation Doctoral students Ya Zhou, Patrick Cantwell, Yumi Park, Karthik Guda Vishnu, Nathan Anderson, Ravi Vedula | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
Alejandro Strachan is a Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University and the Deputy Director of NNSA's Center for the Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems. Before joining Purdue University, he was a staff member in the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar and Scientist at Caltech. He received a Ph.D in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1999.
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Prof. Strachan's research focuses on the development of predictive atomistic and molecular simulation methodologies to describe materials from first principles, their application to problems of technological importance and quantification of associated uncertainties. Application areas of interest include: coupled electronic, thermal and mechanical processes in nano-electronics, MEMS and energy conversion devices; thermo-mechanical response and chemistry of polymer composites and molecular solids as well as active materials including shape memory and high-energy density materials.