Dmitry Aksenov

Biography

Dmitry started his research activity in 2008 being a second year student at Belgorod State University (BSU). He was working in the Laboratory of Theoretical Investigations and Computer Simulation under supervision of A.G. Lipnitskii studying grain boundary segregation of impurities and precipitation of Ti-C phases in titanium alloys using quantum mechanics approaches. Dmitry graduated from BSU with honors in 2011, and defended his Candidate of Sciences degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2014. Dmitry won DAAD scholarship for young scientists in 2013 to continue his research at Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research (MPIE), Düsseldorf, Germany. He worked there in the Computational Materials Design Department headed by Prof. J. Neugebauer with the assistance of T. Hickel. Dmitry is also interested in mechanical and electrical engineering. Since 2014, he has been engaged in the tasks related to assembling logging trucks and development of geophysical equipment for magnetic testing of iron boreholes at GEOTECH Company in Belgorod, Russia. At Skoltech, Dmitry is developing state-of-the-art methods for first-principles modelling of materials and use them for studying cathode materials of rechargeable batteries.

Research Interest

Density functional theory study of transition metal oxides for battery applications. Study of alkali ion diffusion mechanisms in battery cathode materials (LiFePO4, Na2FePO4F, KVPO4F). Study of point and surface defects in battery cathode materials. Development of computational framework SIMAN for high-throughput DFT calculations. Development of materials database of CEE CREI.