Rebecca Welch

Rebecca Welch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Alfred University. Her research focuses on computational modeling of glass structures, vibrational properties, and stabilization techniques for oxide glass-forming systems.

Research Trends: Her recent work emphasizes oxygen tricluster formation, fracture mechanics in silicate glasses, radiation shielding capabilities of borate glasses, and hybrid machine learning/physics-based approaches to predicting glass-forming ability. Key subfields include molecular dynamics simulations, interatomic potentials, nucleation processes, and the Kauzmann paradox in supercooled liquids.