James Hickman's Homepage

Current position: NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Gaithersburg campus)

Publications: (click here for publication PDFs)

Google Scholar: Link to my google scholar page

My NIST webpage: (click here)

email: jhickma3@gmu.edu or james.hickman@nist.gov

Recent news::

Our Nature Communications paper "Nickel nanoparticles set a new record of strength" which focuses on homogeneous nucleation of dislocations in Nickel nano-particles has been featured in an interactive periodic table developed by Nature to celebrate the "The International Year of the Periodic Table". You can explore this interactive periodic table at either of the following links and be sure to click on the Ni element to see our paper.

https://www.nature.com/collections/jihfiafacg/content/interactive-periodic-table

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-019-00001-7/index.html

Education

• 2017: PhD in Physics, Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va
  • Academic Advisor: Dr. Yuri Mishin
• 2014: Masters in Applied and Engineering Physics, Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va
• 2011: Bachelor of Science (double major in physics and applied mathematics), Department of Physics, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pa

Research interests

• Machine learning and artificial neural networks
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
• Solid State Physics
• Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
• Classical atomic simulations

Previous positions

• Research scientist: George Mason University