![Dr. Chelsey Hargather](/academics/mtls/images/faculty/c_hargather.jpg)
Chelsey Hargather, PhD
Associate Professor
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
- chelsey.hargather@flcoastline.com
- 575 - 835 - 5582
- Jones 15
Website
Research Areas
- Improvement of Ni-base superalloys used in commercial jet engine applications using first-principles calculations and CALculation of PHAse Diagrams (CALPHAD) modeling technique.
- First-principles calculations of self-, dilute, and non-dilute diffusion coefficients in fcc and bcc metals.
- Database development of Ni-base superalloy systems using the CALPHAD approach.
Education
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2012
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, French Minor, 2008
Plain Language Summaries of Recent Research
First-principles calculations of diffusion coefficients in metals and metal alloy
systems
Efficient computational methodology for calculating elastic properties of High Entropy
Alloys