David Andersson

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David Andersson is a Technical Staff Member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico. Dr. Andersson joined LANL in 2007 as a Glenn T. Seaborg postdoctoral fellow and was converted to the position of Technical Staff Member in 2009. His Ph.D. is in materials science and engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently the deputy technical lead for materials and fuel performance modeling in the US DOE-NE Modeling and Simulation program. Dr. Andersson’s main expertise is in multiscale materials modeling and simulation, with a focus on atomic-scale methods.


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Phonon Heat Transport Near the Melting Point

Molecular dynamics simulations can fully describe phonon propagation in aluminum, which could enable accurate predictions of phonon thermal conductivity. Read More »