Will Pisani

Senior Scientist I

SIMETRI, Inc•  September 2021 - Present

Perform computational materials science research to further the goals of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ERDC Environmental Laboratory

ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Chemistry

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education•  November 2019 - August 2021

Developed an R code to auto-fit a series of segmented regressions to stress-strain data generated via uniaxial tensile and shearing molecular dynamics simulations, speeding up analysis by a factor of 100. Developed Python and Julia scripts to extract data from log files, determine and build molecular topologies, manipulate atomic systems, and analyze data, among other applications. Investigated the effect of capped carbon nanotubes and hydrogen-terminated graphene sheets on polyamide 6's mechanical properties using molecular dynamics simulations. Investigated the effect of crystallinity and crystal form on mechanical properties of polyamide 6 using multiscale modeling. Contributed to an internal U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ERDC basic research pre-proposal for the 2022 fiscal year that has moved on to the full proposal stage of evaluation.