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
Modelling Materials for Fusion Power
Fusion Power Materials
Fusion power: a challenge for materials science
Ab Initio Simulations of the Interaction between Water and Defects on the Calcite (10(1)over-bar 4) Surface
Models for the nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate
Modeling plasma facing materials for fusion power
Modelling biomineralization processes
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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
