Dr Christopher D. Woodgate

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Physics at @BristolUni. In free time, a bell ringer, an archer, and a runner... All views my own.

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

I have made the decision to migrate my activity across to @bluesky. I am sure this doesn't need much explaining...

Find me at: @chriswoodgate.bsky.social

I will maintain this account and historic posts, but activity will be markedly reduced.

See you where the sky is bluer! ☀️

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Pleased to be able to share another #research publication, this time examining the computational efficiency of various proposed parallelisation schemes for the Wang–Landau sampling scheme, useful for studying phase transitions. 📝

Read more at: https://t.co/i5tlVDlyet

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

My latest #publication examines why Ni diffuses so sluggishly in Fe-Ni #alloys, with local lattice distortions—and associated magnetism—playing a key role. 🧲

You can find out more about this #research in Physical Review Materials: https://t.co/u7LxT8roTy

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Check out my latest #research #article, published today in Acta Materialia! 🚀

https://t.co/KZmzJjvOJx

We present a combined #experimental and #computational investigation into how an applied #magnetic field can affect #spinodal #decomposition in Cu-Ni-Fe #alloys. Enjoy! 🧲

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Really pleased to be able to share my latest research article, published today in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

https://t.co/I0anPY4psW

BraWl is a lightweight package for doing alloy #thermodynamics using the Bragg-Williams model 🚀

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Thrilled to share my latest #research #article, published today by @IOPPublishing in Journal of Physics: Materials

https://t.co/vRcboKBnqo

We model the #thermodynamics, #phase #stability, and #properties of two #refractory #HighEntropy #superalloys. Check it out!

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

@VirginAtlantic Thanks, Hayley. I have cancelled my (three) meetings scheduled for tomorrow. Fingers crossed I can get to Boston by tomorrow evening, as I am speaking at Northeastern University on Friday morning and it would be really sad to miss the opportunity

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

@VirginAtlantic @VirginAtlantic Thanks Hayley. Flight is now confirmed as cancelled but have just spoken to my travel agent who says they can’t rebook me because the tickets haven’t been ‘released’—still showing us as ‘departed’ on their systems?

[CoSeC @CoSeC_community]

Meet next week's conference speakers! Christopher Woodgate @BristolUni will be speaking on Modelling Multicomponent Alloys across Length Scales https://t.co/VAapUHGwIL #CoSeC #computationalmaterials #theoreticalphysics

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Really pleased to be able to share this research article, published today in npj Computational Materials: https://t.co/nNTxnrgItY

Here, we examine how alloying additions may be used to control chemical ordering tendencies and magnetic properties in FeNi-based magnets! 🧲

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Check out our latest research article, examining the thermodynamics and phase stability of the Al-CrFeCoNi #HighEntropyAlloy:

https://t.co/8nrQwInEiy

Great to have been able to work with the group of @lbpartay on this project!

#Physics #Chemistry #MaterialsScience

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Delighted to have been named as part of the 2024 cohort of CoSeC fellows!

Really looking forward to using this career development fellowship to act as an ambassador for the Centre, and to build bridges between the UK’s computational communities! 🚀

@SciComp_STFC @BristolUniPhys

[CoSeC @CoSeC_community]

We are extremely excited to introduce the 2024 cohort of CoSeC Fellows... @CDWoodgate is an @EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at @BristolUni. Chris is a theoretical physicist and computational materials scientist with a research focus on computational modelling of electronic structure

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Today is my first day as an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol!

I am really looking forward to connecting with a range of theoretical, computational, and experimental collaborators at Bristol and beyond!

@BristolUni @BristolUniPhys

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

It was great to attend the 2024 @CCP5UK conference and AGM this week, hosted by @sheffielduni

My talk on concentration waves in #HighEntropyAlloys was well received, and there were lots of great talks from other researchers at all career stages!

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Delighted to share that my book has just been published by @SpringerNature!

It has been a real pleasure working with @zacharyevenson and the rest of the team at Springer on this project! 🚀

You can find it here: https://t.co/YNjev8r4p1

#Physics #MaterialsScience #Alloys

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

PhDone! ✅

It’s been a while since my viva, and even longer since I submitted my thesis, but today was the day of my #PhD graduation ceremony! 👨‍🎓

It was great to attend the celebrations with my family, and to catch up with friends from my time as a student at @warwickuni

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Had a great week attending (and presenting at) the International Conference on Magnetism 2024 in Bologna, Italy. 🇮🇹

Some great discussions throughout the week!

@ICM2024 🧲

#Magnetism #Physics #MaterialsScience

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Great to be at the International Conference on Magnetism @ICM2024 in Bologna this week! 🧲

At 11:30 today, I will be giving a talk presenting some of our recent work on the FeNi system, which is a candidate rate-earth-free permanent magnet. See you there!

#Magnetism

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Busy day today presenting at two conferences across two locations!

This morning, I presented an invited talk at PEMD 2024 in Nottingham, organised by @TheIET. Then, this afternoon, I gave a poster presentation at the @TheoryIOP annual meeting.

Great discussions at both events!

[Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @CDWoodgate]

Delighted to share that I have been awarded the 2023 Winton Thesis Prize by the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick!

This is awarded for an outstanding #PhD thesis submitted in the preceding calendar year. 📕

@HetSysCDT @WarwickPhysics @warwickuni