Anil Kunwar was a postdoctoral researcher in the Microstructure Simulation Lab Leuven from 2018 till 2021. 

We are currently co-PIs of the project "Learning the Physics of Dendrite Growth in Lithium-Ion Batteries: An Attention Mechanism Approach for Prevention and Mitigation, DENDRITEPHASE" jointly supported by FWO-Flanders and NCN-Poland through the Weave program, and part of the DIGITALMINERAL Lab..

We published several publications and join efforts on exploring  the use of ML and AI techniques to advance phase-field simulations and to discover new alloy compositions and material properties. 

We were co-PIs in the project " (C14/17/075), Multi-scale modeling of reactions at solid-liquid interfaces and their effect on dynamic wetting and phase morphology", combining in-situ high-temperature wetting experiments, molecular dynamics simulations and phase-field simulations. We co-supervised joint PhD students. The collaboration resulted in several joint publications on experimental and computational studies of reactive wetting phenomena.

We published several joint publications on the study of irregular grain boundary migration during recrystallization in heterogeneous deformation fields, combining in-situ experimental observation and phase-field simulations. 

The KU Leuven Microstructure Simulation Lab is external collaborator on the DTU project "Microstructural engineering of additive manufactured metals -- MicroAM" in which we are involved with phase field simulations of annealing processes of additive manufactured metals.  

Hong Liu was an FWO postdoctoral researcher at the Microstructure Simualtion Lab Leuven from 2017 till 2020, after which he became a professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an expert in phase-field models including micro-elasticity and complex crystallographic relationships. Our collaboration continues on the study of twin nucleation and growth in Mg alloys, (co-)precipitation in multi-phase ternary Mg alloys and grain structure evolution in additive manufacturing processes, resulting in several joint publications.

We collaborate on the application of phase-field models in combination with experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to understand wetting and dissolution phenomena in metallurgical slags. We published several joint publications on these topics and and joint PhD students. 

We co-supervise(d) several joint PhD students and projects on alloys and process design, combine phase-field simulations, CALPHAD based calculations and experiments. Our ingoing joint projects :

• FWO-SB PhD-fellowship strategic basic research Wout Mertens (1S60325N), Modeling Advanced Nd-Fe-B magnets for green NET shaping and improved Alloying, MAGNETA

• VLAIO-Baekeland mandate Aman Gupta (HBC.2024.0255), Development of computation assisted material selection approach for multi-material metal additive manufacturing

• FWO ERA-MIN3, Rapidly sintered re-engineered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets based on recycled content, SIREN

We have joined Imec-KU Leuven PhD project "Phase field modeling of grain evolution in advanced nano-interconnects"

Kunok Chang was a postdoctoral researcher at the Microstructure Simulation Lab Leuven. Afterwards, we continued our collaboration on phase-field simulations and the quantification of grain growth in systems with strong anisotropy and inclination dependent grain boundary properties. 

We collaborate on the application of tensor decomposition and tensor completion techniques to efficiently represent and use the high-dimensional thermodynamic and kinetic datasets required for quantitative phase-field simulations of multi-component alloys. Prof. Lieven Delathauwer and Nico Vervliet contributed as external collaborators to the INTERDIFFUSION project, resulting in joint publications and the co-supervision of a PhD student. 

We collaborate within our joint project "Titanium alloys with tailored thermal expansion, TITREX" and co-supervise joint PhD students within the project.

We collaborate within our joint project "Multiscale characterization and simulation for hydrogen embrittlement assessment: development of an open knowledge platform to foster capability integration (HyWay), in which we co-supervise a postdoc, a PhD student and one master thesis student.

Yuan Yuan was an FWO postdoctoral researcher at the Microstructure Simulations Lab Leuven from 2012 till 2016. She is an expert in CALPHAD modeling of Gibbs energies and atomic diffusion mobilities, microstructure characterization and diffusion experiments. We collaborate and have joint publications on topics related to alloys design and thermodynamic and kinetic modeling.