David Drabold

David Alan Drabold (born 13 February 1960) is an American physicist, currently Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor[1] at Ohio University.

Early life

Born in Akron, Ohio to Walter Drabold Jr. and Marjorie Jane Ruthenberg. Drabold was raised in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

Education

Drabold received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Akron in 1982, and a PhD. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis under the supervision of Peter Fedders. He was also significantly influenced by E. T. Jaynes. He held term appointments in Physics at the University of Notre Dame, where his key mentor was Otto F. Sankey and both Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his key mentor was Richard M. Martin.

Research

Drabold took a tenure track appointment at Ohio University in 1993. He is a theoretical physicist working primarily in condensed matter and computational physics with an emphasis on amorphous, paracrystalline[2] and glassy materials. He is known for his formulation of algorithms to elucidate consequences of structural disorder to electronic, optical and transport properties.[3] He has extensively researched amorphous materials, and has made contributions to the theory of the solid state and computational physics. His published research includes about 300 works, and has received about 12,000 scientific citations. His h-index is 61 in 2025.[4] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (in the Division of Materials Physics in 2003),[5] (citation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of non-crystalline materials and development of efficient first-principles electronic structure methods) a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society.[6] He has mentored 22 Ph.D. students to date. A Festschrift volume was published[7] commemorating his sixtieth birthday.

He has been Visiting Fellow Commoner in Trinity College, Cambridge,[8] and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 2008.[9]

Selected publications

Origins of structural and electronic transitions in disordered silicon[10]

Theory of diamondlike amorphous carbon[11]

Energetics of Large Fullerenes: Balls, Tubes, and Capsules[12]

References

  1. ^ "Ohio University Outlook". www.ohio.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  2. ^ Rosset, Louise A. M.; Drabold, David A.; Deringer, Volker L. (2025-03-10). "Signatures of paracrystallinity in amorphous silicon from machine-learning-driven molecular dynamics". Nature Communications. 16 (1): 2360. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57406-4. ISSN 2041-1723.
  3. ^ "Physicists, mathematicians turn to blackboards to answer universal questions". Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  4. ^ "David A. Drabold Google Scholar". Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  5. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  6. ^ CRIBB, JOE (2009). "Proceedings". The Numismatic Chronicle. 169: 531–556. JSTOR 42678641.
  7. ^ Biswas, Parthapratim; Chen, Gang; Nakhmanson, Serge; Dong, Jianjun (2021). "Form and Function of Disorder". physica status solidi (b). 258 (9): 2100366. doi:10.1002/pssb.202100366. ISSN 1521-3951.
  8. ^ "Trinity College Annual Record 2008 by Trinity College Cambridge - Issuu". issuu.com. 15 June 2008. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  9. ^ "Grant listings | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  10. ^ Deringer, Volker L.; Bernstein, Noam; Csányi, Gábor; Ben Mahmoud, Chiheb; Ceriotti, Michele; Wilson, Mark; Drabold, David A.; Elliott, Stephen R. (2021). "Origins of structural and electronic transitions in disordered silicon". Nature. 589 (7840): 59–64. Bibcode:2021Natur.589...59D. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03072-z. PMID 33408379. S2CID 244961379. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  11. ^ Drabold, D. A.; Fedders, P. A.; Stumm, Petra (1994). "Theory of diamondlike amorphous carbon". Physical Review B. 49 (23): 16415–16422. Bibcode:1994PhRvB..4916415D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.49.16415. PMID 10010793. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  12. ^ Adams, Gary B.; Sankey, Otto F.; Page, John B.; O'Keeffe, Michael; Drabold, David A. (1992). "Energetics of Large Fullerenes: Balls, Tubes, and Capsules". Science. 256 (5065): 1792–1795. Bibcode:1992Sci...256.1792A. doi:10.1126/science.256.5065.1792. PMID 17743034. S2CID 23675780. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
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