dr dorothy duffy
Research
Themes
- Dr
- Dorothy
- Margaret
- Duffy
- Dr Dorothy Duffy
- Tel: 020 7679 3032
- Ex: 33032
- d.duffy@ucl.ac.uk
- Website
- https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/extResource/image/01/DMDUF36
- 2002-01-01
- 595
- A24
- Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Gower Street
- London
- WC1E 6BT
- ACARDR
- 2005-04-01
- 1
- Reader in Physics
- MJ
- Dept of Physics & Astronomy
- MPS
- Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
- 2002-01-01
Research Summary
Fusion Materials Modelling: electronic effects, iron, tungsten, diamondModelling biomineralization: organic inorganic interfaces, crystallization of minerals on organic substrates
The nature of high-energy radiation damage in iron
Charge localization on the hexa-interstitial cluster in MgO
Ab initio study of intrinsic defects in zirconolite
Modelling Materials for Fusion Power
An ab initio study of the effect of charge localization on oxygen defect formation and migration energies in magnesium oxide
A molecular dynamics study of diamond exposed to tritium bombardment for fusion applications
Modelling materials for fusion power
Academic Background
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Award YearQualificationInstitution
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1981DICImperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
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1981PhDImperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
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1976BSc HonsUniversity of Durham
Biography
I completed my PhD in the Condensed Matter theory group at Imperial College in 1981 and I then joined Reading University as a Post Doc funded by AEA Technology Harwell. During a successful collaboration with Harwell I helped to develop the first computer programs to model grain boundaries and interfaces in ionic crystals and I used the programs to calculate many interesting and unexpected properties of interfaces.
After a career break to raise my family I was awarded a Daphne Jackson fellowship at Reading University in 1996. During the fellowship I modelled the magnetic properties of supported metal nanoclusters. Since then I have applied modelling techniques to a diverse range of systems and processes, from wax inhibition at Warwick University to organic-inorganic interfaces at UCL. I am currently collaborating with Culham on modelling the effects of electronic excitations on radiation damage in metals. I was appointed as a lecturer at UCL in April 2005.
- CMR
