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Scientific career

  • since 2021:
    Research associate at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.
  • 2019 to 2021:
    Postdoctoral researcher / assistant professor, lab. of Microstructure and Interface Control and Engineering (MICE), Kumamoto University, Japan. Investigation of the local mechanical properties close to grain boundaries in magnesium bicrystals.
  • October 2018:
    Dr. rer. nat.: "In situ investigation of grain boundary migration in aluminum and copper bicrystals".
  • 2011 to 2018:
    Scientific assistant at Institute of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
  • 2004 to 2010:
    Study of physics (focus on solid state and semiconductor physics), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany.

Research fields

  • Mechanical properties of nuclear construction materials under irradiation
  • Characterization of thin ion-irradiated layers
  • Microstructure informed modeling of the irradiation induced hardening
  • Methods: nanoindentation, ion-irradiation, numerical modeling

Projects

  • EU HORIZON 2020 project ENTENTE (European Database for Multiscale Modeling of Radiation Damage).

Publications

2025

On the effect of inclination dependence of grain boundary energy on grain boundary migration in Al bicrystals

Molodov, D. A.; Brandenburg, J.-E.; Barrales‑Mora, L. A.; Tsurekawa, S.


2024

Recovery of neutron-irradiated VVER-440 RPV base metal and weld exposed to isothermal annealing at 343 °C up to 2000 hours

Altstadt, E.; Bergner, F.; Brandenburg, J.-E.; Chekhonin, P.; Dykas, J.; Houska, M.; Ulbricht, A.

Related publications


Microstructure-informed prediction of hardening in ion-irradiated reactor pressure vessel steels

Lai, L.; Brandenburg, J.-E.; Chekhonin, P.; Duplessi, A.; Cuvilly, F.; Etienne, A.; Radiguet, B.; Rafaja, D.; Bergner, F.

Involved research facilities

Related publications


2023

Dynamic behavior of grain boundaries with misorientations in the vicinity of Σ3 coherent and incoherent twin boundaries in Al bicrystals.

Brandenburg, J.-E.; Barrales-Mora, L. A.; Tsurekawa, S.; Molodov, D. A.


Microstructural characterization of reactor pressure vessel steels

Lai, L.; Chekhonin, P.; Akhmadaliev, S.; Brandenburg, J.-E.; Bergner, F.

Involved research facilities

Related publications


2021

Influence of symmetrical 〈101¯0〉 high-angle tilt grain boundaries on the local mechanical properties of magnesium bicrystals
J.-E. Brandenburg; J. Seo; K. Eto; D.A. Molodov; S. Tsurekawa

2020

Stress induced migration of grain boundaries in Cu-bicrystals
J.-E. Brandenburg; M. Schoof; D. A. Molodov

2019

On shear coupled migration of low angle grain boundaries


J.-E. Brandenburg; D. A. Molodov

2016

Effect of Grain Boundary Geometry on Grain Rotation during Curvature-Driven Grain Shrinkage


L. A. Barrales-Mora; J.-E. Brandenburg; D. A. Molodov

2014

On migration and faceting of low-angle grain boundaries: Experimental and computational study


J.-E. Brandenburg; L. A. Barrales-Mora; D. A. Molodov

2013

Motion of a grain boundary facet in aluminum


J.-E. Brandenburg; L. A. Barrales-Mora; D. A. Molodov; G. Gottstein

2012

Effect of inclination dependence of grain boundary energy on the mobility of tilt and non-tilt low-angle grain boundaries


J.-E. Brandenburg; L. A. Barrales-Mora; D. A. Molodov; G. Gottstein

2011

Influence of particle size in hybrid solar cells composed of CdSe nanocrystals and poly(3-hexylthiophene)


J. E. Brandenburg; X. Jin; M. Kruszynska; J. Ohland; J. Kolny-Olesiak; I. Riedel; H. Borchert; J. Parisi