People

Principle Investigator

Keivan Esfarjani

Associate Professor

Keivan Esfarjani is theoretical and computational materials scientist.  He has pioneered a method to compute phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of solids from density functional calculation of force constants. He has held appointments at the Institute for Materials Research of the Tohoku University, UC Santa Cruz and MIT, among others.
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Email k1@virginia.edu

  • Graduate Students

    Jonathan Kaufman

    Yuan Liang

    Emad Rezaei

    Safoura Nayebsadeghi

    Bikash Timalsina

  • Undergraduate Students

    Jake Fulford

    Michael Fatemi

  • Openings

    We have an opening for motivated graduate students interested in theoretical and numerical work with strong background in quantum and statistical mechanics.