Research Overview

My research interests are in Computational Condensed Matter - Materials Science and cover different aspects of the vibrational, electronic and magnetic properties of materials. My work is mainly problem-oriented rather than method-oriented and is characterized by the implementation of phenomenological physical models which are solved by numerical techniques in order to understand the experimentally observed behavior of modern materials and suggest parameters to optimize their properties.

 Magnetic properties and Spintronics

Exchange-bias effect in Hybrid Magnetic Nanoparticles

Modeling the magnetic structure of composite nanoparticles in an effort to reveal the microscopic mechanism of exchange biasing and optimize the magnetic behavior.

Multiscale Modeling of Magnetic Nanostructures

Bridging microscopic (atomistic) and mesoscopic scales in simulations of magnetic hysteresis phenomena.

Magnetic Properties of Nanoparticle Assemblies

Modeling Magnetic hysteresis phenomena in interacting nanoparticle assemblies.

Spin-dependent Transport in Magnetic Nanostructures

Modeling the correlation between micromagnetic configuration and spin-dependent electronic conductance in nanoparticle assemblies and nanostructured devices. 

 Vibrational and Thermal Properties  (past projects)

Phonons in Low-dimensional Semiconductors

Empirical lattice dynamics calculations of phonon spectra in low-dimensional structures (surfaces, interfaces) and disordered systems.

Thermal Boundary Resistance

Lattice dynamics description of phonon boundary scattering mechanism at non-ideal crystalline interfaces. Thermal Boundary Resistance (Kapitza resistance) between two crystalline solids.