BIO and CV
Concise Personal and Professional Background
I am Elijah and have been working as a researcher my entire professional life - since my PhD degree received in Chelyabinsk (Russia) in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Mayer. At the same time, I have given public lectures on physics in Saint Petersburg and have currently been enjoying teaching several mechanics-related university courses and supervising several BEng, MSc, and PhD projects at the University of Manchester (UK). My scientific interests have always been pretty broad, encompassing theoretical and applied physics (my BSc, MSc & PhD degrees), materials science and engineering, plasticity, and numerical simulation of mechanical processes.
BIO
Elijah Borodin, PhD, MInstP
Historically, my first scientific subject of interest was the mechanical behaviour of nanocrystalline materials, which we explored during my PhD in Chelyabinsk (Russia) with Prof. Alexander Mayer, and I am still very enthusiastic about the nanoscale. Then I had the chance to contribute to physical models of plasticity, including deformation twinning, grain boundary sliding, and dislocation plasticity in extreme regimes of high-strain-rate and severe plastic deformation. During almost 7 years, I was working in Saint-Petersburg with the excellent team of mechanics led by Prof. Yuri Petrov at IPME RAS, where I closely engaged with rheological models, and we showed (among others, with Dr Nina Selyutina) that they are excellent for non-conventional applications in high-strain-rate metal plasticity.
In Manchester, I first encountered and was captivated by the modern fields of discrete mathematics, such as combinatorics, graph theory and algebraic topology. In particular, I never expected the recent expansion of my research area to include materials characterisation, materials design, and even crystallography. I am more than excited about the applications of fully discrete methodologies to the description of dynamic recrystallisation during severe plastic deformation of copper and magnesium alloys, recently elaborated in collaboration with Dr Siying Zhu, and the combinatorial mean-field approach to plasticity, currently being developed with Mr Afonso Barroso.
Download: CV Elijah Borodin 2025
Research
Ambitions and Vision
- Novel Scientific Background by Theoretical Materials Science
- Unique Software Development
- High-tech Space and Nuclear applications
Research Directions
- New 'kinetic' theory of plasticity and fracture of bulk crystalline materials and composite structures
- Computation and Theoretical Materials Science
- Design of the Bulk Composite Materials resistant to extreme environments
Research Topics
- Introducing complexity of real microstructure architectures with the complexity of interactions between different components into Mechanics of Solids and Materials Design
- Bringing achievements of modern discrete mathematics, including analytical combinatorics and algebraic topology, to computation materials science
- Physics and Mechanics of Intensive (severe plastic and high-strain-rate) deformation conditions and extreme (high temperature, irradiation and corrosive) environments
- Mechanics of multi-component complex structured steels, nanosized and nanocrystalline materials
- Evolution of 3-dimensional material microstructural architectures and networks of special grain boundaries and triple junctions related to their various skeletons
- High-performance computing (HPC) to materials characterisation and design
- Discrete multiscale and multidimensional non-equilibrium thermodynamics on multilayered polytopal cell complexes
Applications and Impact
- Deep Space Exploration and Space Habitats
- Materials for Biological and Ecological applications
- Studies of rare materials: meteorites, Historical materials and Paleontology