RESEARCH INTERESTS • Theory and modelling in physics, chemistry and engineering of materials • First-principles based electronic structure calculations; many-body problems in physics. • Multi-scale modelling in non-equilibrium systems • Phase stability and transformation in nuclear materials • Point defects and dislocation in materials under irradiation • Magnetic and mechanical properties of materials from nano to engineering scale AWARDS • Academic Visiting Fellow at University of Oxford from 2005 to present • OCAMAC Fellow at Department of Materials, University of Oxford • Visiting Professor at University Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France • Visiting Scientist at University of Pennsylvania, USA • International Advisor Member of Key Lab. at VNU-HN and Visiting Professor at VNU-HCM.