CMI early career researcher Brandon Bocklund is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where his work is centered on modeling phase transformations in metallic and ceramic systems, employing atomistic, mesoscale, and machine learning techniques. His focus is on high-throughput computation for materials design and expanding CALPHAD modeling. As the co-lead for PyCalphad and ESPEI, he is a driving force in open-source scientific software, advocating for innovation and serving on the board of the Materials Genome Foundation.
As a CMI postdoctoral researcher, he was selected for the CMI Leadership Academy fifth cohort, where he developed the CMI Short Course that was held April 11, 2024, at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. This event was videotaped, and is available on the CMI YouTube channel LINK.
He earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in 2021, while serving as a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow. While a graduate student at Penn State, his diverse doctoral projects included developing ESPEI, designing tools for modeling additive manufacturing of functionally graded materials including joining stainless steel to titanium alloys, modeling alloys with thermodynamically stabilized nano-sized grains, and predicting glass-forming ability for bulk metallic glasses. He earned an undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan State University.
March 2025