Alina Kononov

Quantum Computer Science

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

Alina Kononov, Cheng-Wei Lee, Tatiane Pereira dos Santos, Brian Robinson, Yifan Yao, Yi Yao, Xavier Andrade, Andrew Baczewski, Emil Constantinescu, Alfredo Correa, Yosuke Kanai, Normand Modine, Andre Schleife, (2022). Electron dynamics in extended systems within real-time time-dependent density-functional theory MRS communications https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-022-00273-7 Publication ID: 80304

Alina Kononov, Alexandra Olmstead, Andrew Baczewski, Andre Schleife, (2022). First-principles simulation of light-ion microscopy of graphene 2D Materials https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac8e7e Publication ID: 80215

Stephanie Hansen, Andrew Baczewski, Thomas Gomez, T. Hentschel, Christopher Jennings, Alina Kononov, Taisuke Nagayama, Kelsey Adler, A. Cangi, Kyle Cochrane, A. Schleife, (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

Andre Schleife, Andrew Baczewski, Stephanie Hansen, Alina Kononov, (2021). Optical Properties of Be at High Temperatures from First Principles https://doi.org/10.2172/1897695 Publication ID: 76550

Thomas Hentschel, Alina Kononov, Andrew Baczewski, Attila Cangi, Stephanie Hansen, (2021). Eﬀects of electron-ion collisions on stopping powers in warm dense matter https://doi.org/10.2172/1897018 Publication ID: 76646

Alina Kononov, Thomas Hentschel, Andrew Baczewski, Stephanie Hansen, (2021). Bound-bound features in x-ray Thomson scattering signals https://doi.org/10.2172/1888416 Publication ID: 75785

Andrew Baczewski, Alina Kononov, Thomas Hentschel, Stephanie Hansen, (2021). Electronic stopping in warm dense matter using Ehrenfest dynamics and time-dependent density functional theory https://doi.org/10.2172/1888720 Publication ID: 75622

Andre Schleife, Alina Kononov, Stephanie Hansen, Andrew Baczewski, (2021). Optical Properties of Be at High Temperatures from First Principles https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1884067 Publication ID: 75377

Stephanie Hansen, T Hentschel, Alina Kononov, Andrew Baczewski, (2021). Benchmarking consistent observable and material properties from an average-atom model to predictions from TDDFT https://doi.org/10.2172/1877332 Publication ID: 79309

Stephanie Hansen, Alina Kononov, Andrew Baczewski, T Hentschel, (2021). Average Atom models: past & future https://doi.org/10.2172/1884659 Publication ID: 79043

Alina Kononov, Thomas Hentschel, Attila Cangi, Andrew Baczewski, Stephanie Hansen, (2021). Comparison of DFT-based methods for electronic stopping in warm dense aluminum https://doi.org/10.2172/1855327 Publication ID: 77559

Thomas Hentschel, Stephanie Hansen, Attila Cangi, Alina Kononov, Andrew Baczewski, (2020). Collisions and Correlations in Warm Dense Matter: effects on electronic stopping https://doi.org/10.2172/1830065 Publication ID: 71636

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Awards & Recognition

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