Congratulations to FLEET CI Nikhil Medhekar at Monash University, who has been promoted to full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
Nikhil’s Computational Materials Lab at Monash University Faculty of Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering investigates the physics and mechanics of nanoscale materials for optoelectronic, energy and structural applications using a broad range of computational tools, including:
- First principles (ab-initio) quantum mechanical simulations
- Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations
- Continuum phase-field simulations, and
- Continuum mechanics simulations.
Within FLEET, Nikhil and his team perform ab-initio quantum mechanical simulations on massively parallel high-performance computing systems to investigate the electronic structure of atomically thin topological insulators and interfaces in Research Theme 1.
Nikhil is also Deputy Chair of the FLEET Outreach Committee.
