Centre for Materials Science and Engineering

Graeme Ackland

Professor of Computer Simulation

School of Physics
Statistical Mechanics & Computational Materials Physics group

Research activities

Computer simulation of systems of many particles, using both quantum mechanical and semi-empirical force field methods to investigate structure of materials: phase transformations, liquid crystals, condensed molecular phases, crystal defects, alloy formation and microstructure.

5411 James Clerk Maxwell Building
School of Physics
The University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
UK
+44 131 650 5299 direct
G.J.Ackland@ed.ac.uk
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~graeme/