Dallas Trinkle

Dallas Trinkle is the Ivan Racheff Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University (2003) and joined UIUC's faculty in 2006 after postdoctoral work at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

• Affiliations: Willett Faculty Scholar, NCSA Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study Associate.
• Research Focus: Computational materials science, including defect properties (dislocations, point defects), mechanical behavior at atomic scales, and diffusion mechanisms using density-functional theory and machine learning.
• Key Achievements: NSF CAREER Award (2009), TMS Brimacombe Medal (2019), and over 150 peer-reviewed publications.

His research group develops atomistic methods to study material defects and their impact on mechanical/thermal properties. Projects include magnesium alloy strengthening, hydrogen diffusion in palladium, and oxygen diffusion in titanium. They also create open-source computational tools like the magnesium solute database.

Teaching: Courses on atomic-scale simulations, plasticity, and computational materials engineering (MSE 485, MSE 584, CSE 498 DM).

Current Group:** Includes 7 Ph.D. students and a research scientist. Former advisees hold roles at institutions like MIT, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and industry leaders such as MathWorks and General Motors.