Biography
My research focuses on the thermodynamics and computational modeling of materials interfaces. More broadly, I am interested in understanding of spontaneous emergence of diversity, ordering and hierarchical structures in non-equilibrium systems.
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, George Mason University, 2011
- B.S., Applied Physics and Math, South Ural State University, 2004
Publications
2022 2 publications
- I. Winter, R. E. Rudd, T. Oppelstrup and T. Frolov, Nucleation of grain boundary phases, Physical Review Letters, 128, 035701 (2022).
- E. Chen, A. Tamm, T. Wang, M. Epler, M. Asta and T. Frolov, Modeling the antiphase boundary energy of Ni3Al-based alloys using automated density functional theory calculations and machine learning, npj Comput Mater 8, 80 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-022-00755-1
2020 1 publication
- T. Meiners, T. Frolov, R. E. Rudd, G. Dehm, C. H. Liebscher, Observations of grain-boundary phase transformations in an elemental metal, Nature 579 (7799), 375-378, (2020).
2017 2 publications
- Q. Zhu, A. Samanta, B. Li, R.E. Rudd, and T. Frolov,Predicting phase behavior of grain boundaries with evolutionary search and machine learning, arXiv:1707.09699 (2017).
- T. Frolov, W. Setyawan, R. J. Kurtz, J. Marian, A. R. Oganov, R. E. Rudd, and Q. Zhu, Grain boundary phases in bcc metals, arXiv:1711.06775 (2017).
2013 1 publication
- T. Frolov, D. L. Olmsted, M. Asta, and Y. Mishin, Structural phase transformations in metallic grain boundaries, Nature Communications 4, 1899 (2013).
Awards
DOE Early Career Award, Fusion Energy Sciences (2022-2027)
Mercator Fellowship, German Research Foundation (2021-2024)
Miller Fellowship, University of California Berkeley (2012-2015)
Presidential Scholar, George Mason University (2007-2010)
Bachelor of Science, South Ural State University (red diploma with honors)