Armen G. Khachaturyan

 

Dr. Armen G. Khachaturyan received his Master Degree in Metal Physics from Moscow Steel and Alloy in 1959, Ph.D. from Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Science of the USSR in 1963, and Doctor of Science from Metal Physics Institute in Kiev, in 1971. He was senior research scientist at the Metal Physics Institute of the Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy in Moscow from 1959 to 1973. From 1973 to 1986 he was senior research scientist at the Institute for Crystallography of the Academy of Science of the USSR. From 1986 to 1988 he was a research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, California. From 1988 up to now, he is the State of NJ Chair Professor at the Rutgers University. He was Visiting Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at the UC, Berkeley in 1976 and 1978.

His field of interest is the theory of phase transformations, the theory of defects, and microstructure evolution in metal alloys and ceramics and, in particular, in the modeling of microstructure evolution in diffusional and martensitic phase transformations. He published more than 160 technical papers and two monographs in a broad range of topics in materials theory. He received several awards for his works, including Matthias Award from Los Alamos National Laboratory and international William Hume-Rothery Award from TMS for the outstanding contribution to the science of alloys.