College of Science

Computational Materials Science Center

  Estela Blaisten-Barojas

  Professor of Computational Physics and
  Chemistry

  Office: Research Hall, room 371

  Address:
   School of Physics, Astronomy, and
   Computational Sciences, College of Science
   George Mason University
   MSN 6A2
   Fairfax, Virginia 22030

  
   Brief biography

Estela Blaisten-Barojas is Professor of Computational Science, Physics and Chemistry in the School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences. She is also director of the Computational Materials Science Center, coordinator of the Mason Nanotechnology Initiative. and is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Recently, she served as Program Director at the National Science Foundation within the Theory, Models and Computational Methods program. She has held an affiliate research appointment with the Institute of Physical Sciences & Technology, University of Maryland, a contractual research appointment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and an endowed visiting chair at the Institute of Physics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. She has been a Fulbright senior fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, and a NSF visiting professor at the Chemistry and Physics departments of Johns Hopkins University. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has served for several years in the APS-Committe of International Science Affairs and in the Executive Committee of APS-Division of Computational Physics. She is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. Her research interests are in the broad area of large scale dynamical simulations of systems in condensed phases, computational statistical mechanics, physics of elemental and molecular clusters, applications of quantum chemistry to nanoscience, and machine learning discovery in solid materials.

CMaSC: Computational Materials Science Center

Mason Nanotechnology Initiative

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CSI Concentration:
Computational Materials and Physical Chemistry Sciences

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