Dr.-Ing. Ali Zendegani
Main Focus
- Machine Learning and Data Mining in Materials Science
- Thermodynamics of TCP phases including magnetic and vibronic contributions
- Combined first-principles/CALPHAD approach
Links to current projects
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Ab initio Thermodynamics of Defect Phases
- Planar defects in off-stoichiometric, Nb-rich NbFe2 Laves phase
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Alloy thermodynamics for Al-Mg-Si-Cu
Honors & Awards
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2017: STT Grant provided by the Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics (Stiftelsen för Tillämpad Termodynamik), Thermo-Calc Software AB
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2016: Young Scientists Scholarships, International Conference on Advanced Materials Modelling
- 2015: Larry Kaufman Scholarship, CALPHAD Inc.
Publications
- M. Šlapáková, A. Zendegani, C. H. Liebscher, T. Hickel, (...), and F. Stein,
Atomic scale configuration of planar defects in the Nb-rich C14 Laves phase NbFe2, Acta Materialia 183, 362 (2020).
- I. Zegkinoglou, A. Zendegani, I. Sinev, (...), T. Hickel, and B. Roldan Cuenya,
Operando phonon studies of the protonation mechanism in highly active hydrogen evolution reaction pentlandite catalysts, Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, 14360 (2017). - A. Löffler, A. Zendegani, (...), F. Körmann, T. Hickel, and J. Neugebauer,
Quaternary Al-Cu-Mg-Si Q Phase: Sample Preparation, Heat Capacity Measurement and First-Principles Calculations, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion 37, 119 (2015). - L. Klein, A. Zendegani, M. Palumbo, S. G. Fries, and S. Virtanen,
First approach for thermodynamic modelling of the high temperature oxidation behaviour of ternary γ' strengthened Co-Al-W superalloys, Corrosion Science 89, 1 (2014). - A. Zendegani,
Modelling the morphological instability of the oxidation front in binary alloys by phase-field, Masterarbeit, Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2014)