An Iowa State professor and his PhD student are gaining global recognition for their work on multivariant martensitic phase transformations. Valery Levitas, Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor and faculty member of aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, along with PhD student Mahdi Javanbakht was published in Physical Review Letters (PRL, 2010, Vol.105, No.16, 165701), the world’s foremost …Continue reading “Engineering professor, PhD student published in leading physics journal”