PERSONAL HISTORY
B.S. 1987, Physics, Colorado State University; Ph.D. 1992, Physics, Cornell University; Postdoctoral Fellow, 1992-96, Associate Scientist/Scientist, 1996-2003, Ames Laboratory; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Iowa State University, 1999-2003; Senior R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2003 to present; Associate Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2005 to present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Atomistic modeling of materials, including mechanical properties, defect structures, solidification and solid-liquid interfaces, phase diagram calculations, and metallic liquids and amorphous materials.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
K.A. Gschneidner, Jr. et al.
“A new family of ductile intermetallic compounds,” Nature Mater., Vol. 2, 587 (2003).

J.R. Morris and X. Song
“The anisotropic solid-liquid free energy of the Lennard-Jones system,” J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 119, 3920 (2003).

J.R. Morris and R.E. Napolitano
“Developments in approaches to determining the anisotropy of the solid-liquid interfacial free energy,” J. Metals, Vol. 56, 40 (2004).

J.R. Morris, Y.Y. Ye, Y.B. Lee, B.N. Harmon, KA. Gschneidner, Jr., and A.M. Russell
“Ab initio calculation of bulk and defect properties of ductile rare-earth intermetallic compounds,” Acta Mater., Vol. 52, 4849 (2004).

J.J. Hoyt et al.
“Crystal-melt interfaces and solidification morphologies in metals and alloys,” MRS Bull., Vol. 29, 935 (2005).

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