Alina Kononov

Quantum Computer Science

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Quantum Computer Science

akonono@sandia.gov

Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
 P.O. Box 5800
 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322

Alina develops and applies cutting-edge methods to model excited electron dynamics in materials. Her current projects involve advancing modeling capabilities for warm dense matter and exploring prospects of early fault-tolerant quantum computing for simulating excited electrons. Previously, her doctoral research focused on first-principles modeling of ion-irradiated surfaces and 2D materials, where her contributions enabled predictive calculations of ion-induced electron emission, uncovered new surface physics, and offered insights for ion beam materials imaging and processing techniques. Her broad research interests span electronic structure theory and its applications, including time-dependent density functional theory, quantum simulation, materials physics, and high-energy density science.

Education

2020      Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014      S.B. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications

  • Kononov, A., Lee, C., Pereira dos Santos, T., Robinson, B., Yao, Y., Yao, Y., Andrade, X., Baczewski, A., Constantinescu, E., Correa, A., Kanai, Y., Modine, N., Schleife, A., & Schleife, A. (2022). Electron dynamics in extended systems within real-time time-dependent density-functional theory. MRS communications, 12(6), pp. 1002-1014. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-022-00273-7 Publication ID: 80304
  • Kononov, A., Olmstead, A., Baczewski, A., Schleife, A., & Schleife, A. (2022). First-principles simulation of light-ion microscopy of graphene. 2D Materials, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac8e7e Publication ID: 80215
  • Hansen, S., Baczewski, A., Gomez, T., Hentschel, T., Jennings, C., Kononov, A., Nagayama, T., Adler, K., Cangi, A., Cochrane, K., Schleife, A., & Schleife, A. (2022). Improving Predictive Capability in REHEDS Simulations with Fast, Accurate, and Consistent Non-Equilibrium Material Properties. https://doi.org/10.2172/1890268 Publication ID: 80314
  • Schleife, A., Baczewski, A., Hansen, S., Kononov, A., & Kononov, A. (2021). Optical Properties of Be at High Temperatures from First Principles [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1897695 Publication ID: 76550
  • Hentschel, T., Kononov, A., Baczewski, A., Cangi, A., Hansen, S., & Hansen, S. (2021). Effects of electron-ion collisions on stopping powers in warm dense matter [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1897018 Publication ID: 76646
  • Baczewski, A., Kononov, A., Hentschel, T., Hansen, S., & Hansen, S. (2021). Electronic stopping in warm dense matter using Ehrenfest dynamics and time-dependent density functional theory [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1888720 Publication ID: 75622
  • Kononov, A., Hentschel, T., Baczewski, A., Hansen, S., & Hansen, S. (2021). Bound-bound features in x-ray Thomson scattering signals [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1888416 Publication ID: 75785
  • Schleife, A., Kononov, A., Hansen, S., Baczewski, A., & Baczewski, A. (2021). Optical Properties of Be at High Temperatures from First Principles [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1884067 Publication ID: 75377
  • Hansen, S., Hentschel, T., Kononov, A., Baczewski, A., & Baczewski, A. (2021). Benchmarking consistent observable and material properties from an average-atom model to predictions from TDDFT [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1877332 Publication ID: 79309
  • Hansen, S., Kononov, A., Baczewski, A., Hentschel, T., & Hentschel, T. (2021). Average Atom models: past & future [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1884659 Publication ID: 79043
  • Kononov, A., Hentschel, T., Cangi, A., Baczewski, A., Hansen, S., & Hansen, S. (2021). Comparison of DFT-based methods for electronic stopping in warm dense aluminum [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1855327 Publication ID: 77559
  • Hentschel, T., Hansen, S., Cangi, A., Kononov, A., Baczewski, A., & Baczewski, A. (2020). Collisions and Correlations in Warm Dense Matter: effects on electronic stopping [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1830065 Publication ID: 71636
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Awards & Recognition

2023Kononov, Alina, Award, Emerging Leaders 2022, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, May 18, 2023.

Kononov, Alina, Award, Outstanding Referee, Communications Physics, February 2023.
2022Kononov, Alina,Award, 2022 Rising Star in Computational and Data Sciences, April 20, 2022.

Kononov, Alina, Award, Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics, American Physical Society, Division of Computational Physics, March 14, 2022.