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PDF of resume: (available on request)

Selected Publications: (for full listing see the Research section)

Erik Lascaris
Tunable liquid-liquid critical point in an ionic model of silica,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 125701 (2016)
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.125701 (PDF)

Erik Lascaris, M. Hemmati, S. V. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley, and C. A. Angell,
Diffusivity and short-time dynamics in two models of silica,
J. of Chem. Phys. 142, 104506 (2015)
doi: 10.1063/1.4913747 (PDF)

Erik Lascaris, M. Hemmati, S. V. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley, and C. A. Angell,
Search for a liquid-liquid critical point in models of silica,
J. of Chem. Phys. 140, 224502 (2014)
doi: 10.1063/1.4879057 (PDF)

J. Luo, L. Xu, Erik Lascaris, H. E. Stanley, and S. V. Buldyrev,
Behavior of the Widom line in critical phenomena,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 135701 (2014)
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.135701 (PDF)

T. A. Kesselring, Erik Lascaris, G. Franzese, S. V. Buldyrev, H. J. Herrmann, and H. E. Stanley,
Finite-size scaling investigation of the liquid-liquid critical point in ST2 water and its stability with respect to crystallization,
J. of Chem. Phys. 138, 244506 (2013)
doi: 10.1063/1.4808355 (PDF)

Erik Lascaris, G. Malescio, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley,
Cluster formation, waterlike anomalies, and re-entrant melting for a family of bounded repulsive interaction potentials,
Phys. Rev. E 81, 031201 (2010)
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.031201 (PDF)

Honors & Awards:

Conference Presentations:

Criteria for existence of the liquid-liquid phase transition in tetrahedral liquids, Roma Tre Workshop on Water under Extreme Conditions, in Rome (Italy), June 2015
Phase flipping and crystallization in the ST2 water model, CMCSN water meeting at UC Davis, June 2013
Time fluctuations in density and dielectric constant of low and high density water, American Physical Society (APS) March meeting at Boston MA, March 2012
Phase flipping in ST2 water near its hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point, Mini Stat Mech meeting at UC Berkeley, January 2012

Key Skills:

Modeling complex systems, in particular liquid water models
Molecular Dynamics simulations, developing home-made code as well as adding code to existing software such as Gromacs and LAMMPS
Explaining and teaching difficult concepts in a manner anyone can understand
Lots of experience with Windows/Linux, and skilled in languages such as C++, Python, bash, HTML, LATEX, and many others

Education:

Boston University, Boston MA, USA Sep. 2006 -- Sep. 2014
PhD, Physics
Advisor: H. Eugene Stanley
Dissertation: Liquid-liquid phase transitions and water-like anomalies in liquids (PDF)
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Sep. 1999 -- May 2006
Master of Applied Physics (Cum Laude)
Advisor: Eric Laenen
Thesis: The influence of several Standard Model extensions on the production of single top quarks in hadron collisions (PDF)

Research Experience:

Boston University, Boston MA, USA Nov 2014 -- Apr. 2016
Postdoctoral Associate
Atomic-Scale to Meso-Scale Simulation Studies of Thermal Ageing and Irradiation Effects in Fe-Cr Alloys
Boston University, Boston MA, USA 2010 -- Sep. 2014
PhD research
Study of liquid water and its anomalies
Boston University, Boston MA, USA 2010 -- present
System administrator at the Center for Polymer Studies
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands Sep. 2005 -- Aug. 2006
Intership at National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF)

Teaching Experience:

Boston University, Boston MA, USA Jan 2009 -- present
Navy ROTC physics/math tutor (unit representing Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern University)
Boston University, Boston MA, USA Sep 2006 -- May 2009
Teaching Fellow, teaching several courses including: General Physics I, General Physics II, Quantum Mechanics I

Miscellaneous Interests: