Dr Chris Race
Co-Investigator
Member of the Management Group
Co-Lead (Modelling) of Key Challenge 1
Chris Race is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and led the Atomistic Simulation of Materials group within the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester. His group used the tools of atomistic simulation to investigate the behaviour of a variety of materials and material evolution processes.
Chris was a member of the Zirconium Group at Manchester since joining the university in April 2013 as a Dalton Research Fellow within the Dalton Nuclear Institute and the Department of Materials. He has supervised PhD projects examining Zr oxidation, PCI failure, irradiation-induced growth and primary irradiation damage. Before coming to Manchester he 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. He completed his PhD in 2010, in the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, under the supervision of Adrian Sutton and Matthew Foulkes. His thesis - “The modelling of radiation damage in metals using Ehrenfest dynamics” – was published in the Springer Theses Series and won the 2011 Winton Capital Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Physics.