Peter M Derlet - PSI

Peter Derlet is a senior staff scientist within the Condensed Matter Theory group at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland. He specializes in the atomistic modeling of materials science related issues using semi-empirical methods. His fields of interest are:

• The mechanical properties of materials with complex defect structures.
• The dynamical properties of local and extended defects.
• The development of simulation tools to model the experimental measurement of structural disorder using neutrons, photons and electrons.
• Classical magnetization dynamics in micro- and meso-scopic magnetic systems.
• The vibrational and configurational dynamics of structural glasses well below the glass transition temperature.
• Avalanche statistics using simplified dislocation dynamics geometries.
• The use of potential energy landscape exploration algorithms for use in the study of structural and magnetic excitations.

contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Derlet

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