Chad W. Sinclair

Chad W. Sinclair is an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering, part of the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on thermodynamics and kinetics of solute segregation in crystals, with applications in microstructure control and alloy design.

• Developed a dynamical variational Gaussian model for solute segregation analysis.
• Key applications include solute drag effects on interface migration and static strain aging in Al-Mg alloys.

Research Trends from his 2016 work emphasize atomistic modeling, free energy minimization, and kinetic pathway analysis in binary alloys using diffusive molecular dynamics frameworks.