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Matt R Rolchigo

Research and development associate

I am a computational materials scientist, focusing on the development of additive manufacturing process-microstructure modeling software designed to leverage the capabilities of next-generation hardware. My primary area of expertise is the kinetics and thermodynamics of alloy solidification and I’m the lead developer of ExaCA, a GPU-capable cellular automata model for explicit grain structure prediction that has successfully been used to predict large-scale additive manufacturing microstructures.

Postdoctoral research associate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (February 2019 - June 2021)

Research and development associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (June 2021 - present)

Bachelor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2014)

PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University (2018)