ANDREW WARWICK
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Area of Specialisation: Theory and simulation of materials
Working on Key Challenge 1
Andrew Warwick completed a Physics BSc at Imperial College London in 2015. The following year he joined the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Theory and Simulation of Materials (TSM-CDT) (also at Imperial). His first year of the CDT began with a Theory and Simulation of Materials MSc in which he gained experience in a range of modelling techniques including density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods. Following this, his PhD was concerned with the simulation of ferroelastic domain walls in halide perovskites (materials that are primarily investigated for uses in photovoltaic technologies) using ab initio DFT methods.
In the MIDAS project, Andrew will be modelling irradiation damage in Zr and Zr alloys to provide a mechanistic understanding of defect formation from irradiation damage.