Dr. Vikram Gavini

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics,Mechanics,Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
KeywordsDensity functional theory, Mechanics of defects in materials, Multi-scale modeling, Numerical Analysis, Molecular thermoelectrics

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityAnn Arbor
InstitutionUniversity of Michigan
InstituteDepartment of Mechanical Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang HackbuschMax-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian MieheInstitut für Mechanik (Bauwesen), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Felix OttoMax-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2012

Programme(s)

2012Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2013Janakiraman Balachandran, Pramod Reddy, Barry Dunietz, Vikram Gavini: End-group influence on frontier molecular reorganization and thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2013, 3825-3833
2013Phani S. Motamarri, Michael R. Nowak, Kenneth Leiter, Jaroslaw Knap, Vikram Gavini: Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In: Journal of Computational Physics, 2013, 308-343