Dr. Frank Niessen is a Tenure Track Researcher working on the interface of computational modeling and advanced in-situ material characterization to shed light on the nature of solid-state phase transformations and their effect on material properties. Gained understandings and established models are used for the design of new improved materials.

He is an expert on martensitic phase transformations in steels and titanium alloys and has authored several publications that focus on their characterization with a combined computational and experimental approach. He is also active in the field of method development for electron microscopy. 

Frank Niessen teaches thermodynamics and diffusion kinetics modeling to M.Sc. students in course 41668 on Computational Materials Science.

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Interests

• Metastable alloys
• Phase transformations
• Microstructure - property relationships
• Digital twins (In-situ Experiment ~ Modeling)
• Advanced microstructure analysis

Methods

• Thermodynamics and Kinetics modeling
• Density Functional Theory modeling
• Mechanical modeling
• Machine learning
• Misorientation-based microstructure modeling
• (In-situ) X-Ray diffraction
• (In-situ) Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)

Languages:
German
English
Danish