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Dr. Julia
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Researcher/scientist/crystallographer, excited about understanding complex structures and their formation. Assistant Prof @ Cornell. she/her 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎓📚🚲🏔️
https://capecrystal.mse.cornell.edu/
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Thank you, everyone, for the support. You can now read my full account at The New Yorker.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
... as well as a novel reverse transformation pathway that is more complex than any of those proposed or observed previously (involving a 3-fold supercell).

Read more about it in the Cornell Chronicle: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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Study captures crystal phase changes in unprecedented detail | Cornell Chronicle
Using custom-built computer simulations, Cornell researchers have visualized solid-solid phase transitions in unprecedented detail, capturing the motion of every particle in a theoretical material as ...
news.cornell.edu
July 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
... (i.e., the Bain, Nishiyama–Wassermann, and Kurdjumov–Sachs orientation relationships).

We also report: a persistent intermediate body-centered tetragonal phase, a microstructure-dependent transformation pathway, ...
July 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Essentially all of our work is enabled through grants and wouldn't be possible without federal funding. Federal grants enable scientific research and the livelihood and training of researchers and graduate students at universities.
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July 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
... as well as the implementation of a hierarchical family of isoreticular compounds, layered compounds with tunable perpendicular interactions, and the assembly of "breathing-mode" compounds with free parameters.

doi.org/10.1039/D5CP...
A Coarse-Grained Simulation Toolkit for Metal–Organic Framework Synthesis
To gain a better understanding of the processes with which metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) self-assemble, we construct a coarse-grained simulation toolkit to model the growth of a wide variety of MOF ...
doi.org
July 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM