Alexey Lyulin

Prof. dr Alexey Lyulin is an Associate Professor at the Soft Matter and Biological Physics research group of Eindhoven University of Technology and parttime Professor at University of Twente. The emphasis in his research is on atomic-scale modeling of polymers, including glasses, polymer nanocomposites and thin polymer films, for new energy applications. But the main focus is - of course - on polymer dynamics and mechanics.

The fundamental insight generated by the multiscale computer simulations of Lyulin and his co-workers will help in developing new materials with improved ultimate properties. They apply their multi-scale computational approach for the study of

• Glass transition and mechanical properties of amorphous polymers in a bulk and in thin films; 
• Stability and toxicity of complexes of charged dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers with applications in linear polyelectrolytes and drugs for biomedical applications; 
• Non-newtonian rheology of linear and hyperbranched polymers in hydrodynamic flows; and
• Microstructure and macromechanics of polymer nanocomposites.

The Lyulin group aims at developing a long-standing research program in Eindhoven and Twente for multi-scale  computer simulations (from macro scale to nanoscale, in time and space) of polymer dynamics and mechanics.

By performing multiscale simulations I want to bring physical reality to the real-life phenomenology of polymers and solve important practical problems.”