Chris Race
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Group Leader I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow and lead the Atomistic Simulation of Materials group within the School of Materials at the University of Manchester. We use the tools of atomistic simulation to investigate the behaviour of a variety of materials and material evolution processes. I joined the University of Manchester in April 2013 as a Dalton Research Fellow within the Dalton Nuclear Institute and the School of Materials. Before coming to Manchester I spent three years in the Department of Computational Materials Design of the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (Eisenforschung) (MPIE) in Dusseldorf Germany, latterly as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. I completed my PhD in 2010, in the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, under the supervision of Adrian Sutton and Matthew Foulkes. I am a physicist by training and a materials scientist by inclination. I am attracted to materials science by the links it draws between the behaviour of real materials - things we experience and use in our everyday macroscopic lives - and what happens in the microscopic world of atoms and electrons. Materials science involves the application of fundamental theories of physics to solve real-world problems. As a bonus, these problems are often extremely complex, involving a hierarchy of processes across a range of length and time scales. To model them we need to use a broad range of tools, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. For details of my current and past research please see the research tab. For details of my teaching, see my university research profile |
Group members
Post-doctoral researchers
Bartosz Barzdajn
PDRA Linking Microstructure to Neutron Irradiation Defects in Advanced Manufacture of Steels |
PhD students
Alex Garrett
PhD Student Simulation of precipitate formation under irradiation in low-alloy pressure vessel steels via novel manufacturing |
Ben Wilson
PhD Student Understanding the Role of Hydrogen in 7xxx Aluminium Alloys Through Atomistic Simulation |
Former group members
PhD students
Rory Hulse
Modelling the Interaction of Alloying Elements with Irradiation in Zirconium Nuclear Fuel Cladding |
Liam Jacques
State of the art simulations of radiation damage collision cascades incorporating electron-ion energy exchange |
Adam Plowman
Developing a mechanistic understanding of PCI failure with atomistic simulation |
Maria Yankova
Understanding the oxidation of zirconium alloys with atomistic simulation |
Alex Adrych
Using atomistic simulation to understand microstructural evolution under proton irradiation |