Contact information: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Avenue, L-413 Livermore, CA 94550 email: teweldebrhan1@llnl.gov phone: 925-422-1055 fax: 925-422-6594

Education:

-PhD in Physics - University College Cork, 2007

-MSc in Physics - University of Pretoria, 2003

-BSc in Physics - University of Pretoria, 2002

Research:

-Condensed Matter Physics 

-Computational Physics 

-Phase transitions at high-pressure and finite-temperature 

-Ab initio free energy methods  

Recent publications:

-CO₂ in the mantle: Melting and solid-solid phase boundaries, A.M. Teweldeberhan, B. Boates, and S.A. Bonev, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, accepted for publication.

-Stability of dense liquid carbon dioxide, B. Boates, A.M. Teweldeberhan, and S.A. Bonev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 14808 (2012).

-Stability of the high-pressure phases of CaTiO₃ perovskite at finite temperatures, A.M. Teweldeberhan, J. L. DuBois, and S.A. Bonev, Phys. Rev. B 86, 064104 (2012). 

-Structural and thermodynamic properties of liquid Na-Li and Ca-Li alloys at high pressure, A.M. Teweldeberhan and S.A. Bonev, Phys. Rev. B 83, 134120 (2011). 

-High-pressure phases of calcium: Density-functional theory and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo approach, A.M. Teweldeberhan, J. L. DuBois,  and S.A. Bonev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 235503 (2010).