| Major Professional Experience |
2000 - Present: University of Virginia, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Assistant Professor
Summer 1999: Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Advanced Science Research Center, Research work under the Foreign Researcher Inviting Program of JAERI
1995 - 2000: The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral researcher
1991 - 1995: High Technology Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia and Delanta Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania, Research staff member
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computational materials science, development of multiple length and time-scale computational methods for materials modeling, theoretical and numerical analysis of the dynamic non-equilibrium processes in materials undergoing processing by short laser pulses, investigation of the microscopic mechanisms of phase transformations, properties of nanostructured and non-crystalline materials.
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NSF Career Award, 2004
ASMS Research Award for the year 2002
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L. V. Zhigilei, C. Wei, and D. Srivastava, Mesoscopic model for dynamic simulations of carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. B 71, 165417, 2005.
D. S. Ivanov and L. V. Zhigilei, Combined atomistic - continuum model for simulation of laser interaction with metals: application to calculation of melting thresholds in Ni targets of varying thickness, Appl. Phys. A 79, 977, 981, 2004.
E. Leveugle, D. S. Ivanov, and L. V. Zhigilei, Photomechanical spallation of molecular and metal targets: molecular dynamics study, Appl. Phys. A 79, 1643-1655, 2004.
D. S. Ivanov and L. V. Zhigilei, The effect of pressure relaxation on the mechanisms of short pulse laser melting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 105701, 2003.
L. V. Zhigilei, E. Leveugle, B. J. Garrison, Y. G. Yingling, and M. I. Zeifman, Computer simulations of laser ablation of molecular substrates, Chem. Rev. 103, 321-348, 2003.
L. V. Zhigilei, Dynamics of the plume formation and parameters of the ejected clusters in short-pulse laser ablation, Appl. Phys. A 76, 339-350, 2003.
D. S. Ivanov and L. V. Zhigilei, Combined atomistic-continuum modeling of short pulse laser melting and disintegration of metal films, Phys. Rev. B 68, 064114, 2003.
L. V. Zhigilei, Y. G. Yingling, T. E. Itina, T. A. Schoolcraft, and B. J. Garrison, Molecular dynamics simulations of matrix assisted laser desorption - connections to experiment, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 226, 85-106, 2003.
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