Dr Sergei Dudarev
Co-Investigator
Sergei L. Dudarev studied theoretical and mathematical physics at Moscow Engineering Technical University, receiving MSc and PhD degrees in Theoretical Nuclear Physics in 1983. In 1989 he was awarded a Moscow Komsomol Prize for outstanding scientific achievements and a Royal Society Research Fellowship in 1991. Since 1999 he has been Head of the Materials Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Hong-Kong and at Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, and is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He is author of a book on Electron Diffraction and Microscopy (OUP, 2004), and has over 240 papers in refereed academic journals on subjects spanning the statistical theory of scattering, methods of electronic structure calculations, and mathematical models for nuclear materials.
Sergei’s primary research interests are in mathematical models for scattering of particles (electrons, ions, and neutrons) and radiation in materials, including weak localisation of waves, and density matrix-based treatment of diffraction and diffuse scattering of electrons by crystals. Applications of the latter to electron microscopy and spectroscopy of materials, including electron energy loss spectroscopy and Auger surface spectroscopy. Electronic structure of materials, including strongly correlated systems, transition metal oxides, applications of LSDA method. Models for nuclear materials, including ab initio calculations of structure of radiation defects, magnetic and scalar interatomic potentials, Langevin and related stochastic methods, mathematical algorithms for large-scale predictive modelling of complex alloys and steels under extreme high temperature and irradiation conditions.