TURAB LOOKMAN
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Title(s): | Technical Staff Member | ||
| Department: | Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group | |||
| Email: | txl@lanl.gov | |||
| Phone: | (505) 665-0419 | |||
| Fax: | (505) 665-4063 | |||
| Postal Mail: | Los Alamos National Laboratory (Group T-11) | |||
| (Mail Stop B262) Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA | ||||
Career Highlights
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Lookman began his career as a fellow with the Science and Engineering Research Council in the United Kingdom in 1983. He then spent 14 years teaching at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and left with the rank of full professor in 1998. In 1997 he served as a Royal Society Visiting Professor at the University of London. He joined the theoretical division of LANL as a technical staff member in 1998. |
Research Areas
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Lookman's research includes the modeling of soft, biological and hard materials. His studies involve membranes, complex fluids and polymers, phase transitions and statistical physics, structural phase transformations, and multiscale approaches to large-scale computations. |
Selected Publications
- R. Ahluwalia, T. Lookman, A. Saxena, et al., "Domain-size dependence of piezoelectric properties of ferroelectrics," Physical Review B 72 (1): 014112 (2005)
- M.J. Graf, T. Lookman, J.M. Wills, et al., "Strong electron-phonon coupling in delta-phase stabilized Pu," Physical Review B 72 (4): 045135 (2005)
- K.H. Ahn, T. Lookman, A. Saxena, et al., "Electronic properties of structural twin and antiphase boundaries in materials with strong electron-lattice couplings," Physical Review B 71 (21): 212102 (2005)
- J. Barre, A.R. Bishop, T. Lookman, et al., "Adaptability and "intermediate phase" in randomly connected networks," Physical Review Letters 94 (20): 208701 (2005)
- J. Barre, A.R. Bishop, T. Lookman T, et al., "The cavity method for the rigidity transition," Journal of Statistical Physics 118 (5-6): 1057-1071 (2005)
- R.B. Thompson, K. O. Rasmussen, T. Lookman, "Origins of elastic properties in ordered block copolymer/nanoparticle composites," Nano Letters 4 (12): 2455-2459 (2004)
- K.H. Ahn, T. Lookman, A.R. Bishop, "Strain-induced metal-insulator phase coexistence in perovskite manganites," Nature 428 (6981): 401-404 (2004)
- T. Lookman, S. R. Shenoy, K. O. Rasmussen, et al., "Ferroelastic dynamics and strain compatibility," Physical Review B 67 (2): 024114 (2003)
- W. Klein, T. Lookman, A. Saxena, et al., "Nucleation in systems with elastic forces," Physical Review Letters 88 (8): 085701 (2002)
- K.O. Rasmussen, T. Lookman, A. Saxena, et al., "Three-dimensional elastic compatibility and varieties of twins in martensites," Physical Review Letters 87 (5): 055704 (2001)
- Y. Jiang, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena, "Phase Ordering and Shape Deformation of Two-Phase Membranes," Physical Review E 61, (1), R-57-R60, (2000)
Professional Appointments
| 1998-Present | Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Division, LANL, NM | |
| 1994 | Royal Society Visiting Professor, University of London (UK) | |
| 1993-1998 | Professor, University of Western Onatrio, Canada | |
| 1988-1993 | Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada, | |
| 1984-1988 | Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada | |
| 1983-1984 | Fellow, Science and Engineering Research Council (UK) | |
Professional Preparation
| Kings College, University of London | Ph.D. 1983 |
