The Women in Physics group presents: Prof. Dorothy Duffy and Dr Ying Lia Li
Prof. Dorothy Duffy - "From there to here: A random walk through a career in physics" and Dr Ying Lia Li - "Thank you UCL Women in Physics Group"
The Women in Physics group presents: Prof. Dorothy Duffy and Dr Ying Lia Li
06 Nov 2019, 13:00 – 15:00
Prof. Dorothy Duffy - From there to here: A random walk through a career in physics.
In this presentation Prof. Duffy will give a brief overview of her career in materials modelling, from the early days working for the atomic energy authority at Harwell, to her recent retirement from the Physics department at UCL. She will reflect on the changes in science and science careers over the last 30 years and discuss the challenges of returning to academia after an extended career break. Her talk will finish with an open discussion about how we can help PhD students and early career researchers to make informed decisions about the range of options available to them throughout their scientific careers
Thank you UCL Women in Physics Group.
Lia will summarise her time running the UCL women in physics group, giving thanks to Prof. Dorothy Duffy for her continued support of the group. She’ll speak about the importance of equality, diversity & inclusion as she steps down in order to focus on the UCL Race Equality SteeringGroup.
WIPG aims to support, inspire, and motivate female researchers and teaching staff. Open to all undergraduate & postgraduate students, researchers and staff, regardless of gender or identity. Open to all departments and universities. Please email ucaplic@ucl.ac.uk if you’d like detailed directions.
Prof. Duffy's research is concerned with modelling materials and material processes using simulation techniques such as Molecular Dynamics (MD). Currently her main focus is on modelling radiation damage in materials for nuclear power and fusion and fission applications, in particular plasma facing materials for fusion and ceramics for radioactive waste disposal.
She has developed a method for including the effects of electronic excitations in classical simulations of radiation damage in metals and is now extending these methods to insulating materials.
She is also interested the effect of organic molecules on inorganic crystal growth. Living organisms have a remarkable ability to control the shape and orientation of crystals, resulting in exceptionally tough minerals, or shells with intricate shapes. Complex organic molecules are known to play an important role in this control, but the detailed mechanism is not well understood. She models interfaces between organic monolayers and calcite crystals in order to gain insight into the growth control mechanism.
She is part of a consortium of researchers from five universities that is investigating bio-material interfaces and their applications.
She is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL.