Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry

Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Dale D. Koelling

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
SC-22.2/Germantown Building, Rm F-425A
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290

E-Mail: Dale.Koelling@science.doe.gov
Phone: (301) 903-2187
Fax: (301) 903-9513

Education

B.S.   in Physics,  Kansas State University,  1963

Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968

Experience

After a four year postdoc at Northwestern University, Dr. Koelling joined the staff of Argonne National Laboratory.  He “retired” as a Senior Scientist after 28 years of service to come to the Department of Energy as a program manager emphasizing Computational Materials Physics.  His primary research interest has been the electronic structure of materials where a set of electrons are nearly --- but not quite --- localized: platinum group metals, actinides, lanthanides, intermetallic compounds, oxides (more or less in order of his progression).  To do so has involved him in the augmented plane wave method and its linearized version for the determination of band structures, relativistic effects, density functional theory and its functionals, and lots of Fermiology.  While still an Argonne staff member, he served an apprenticeship as a detailee to the DOE primarily assigned to assist the Experimental Condensed Matter Physics core research activity.  Now he is focused on the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics core research activity.