#10: Irea Mosquera-Lois and Seán Kavanagh join Arfon and Abby to discuss releasing software based on important research observations, earning a PhD, and building ShakeNBreak, a defect structure searching method that better identifies low-energy structures.

Irea is a PhD Student at Imperial College London. Seán is an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University.

You can follow Irea on GitHub @ireaml and X @ireaml. You can follow Seán on GitHub @kavanase, X @Kavanagh_Sean_, and at seankavanagh.com.

See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/05/josscast-10-defect-structure-searching

Episode highlights:

• [00:03:02 ] What is a viva? And earning a PhD


• [00:05:41 ] Defects in Materials and Their Impact


• [00:07:20 ] Understanding ShakeNBreak


• [00:09:32 ] Integration with Computational Tools


• [00:12:46 ] Benefits of Open Source Contribution


• [00:17:20 ] Discovering the Defect Configurational Issue


• [00:20:23 ] Peer Review and Publishing Software


• [00:22:41 ] Contribute to ShakeNBreak

Links:

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04817


• ShakeNBreak repository: https://github.com/SMTG-Bham/ShakeNBreak


• Mosquera-Lois, I. & Kavanagh, S. R.; Walsh, A.; Scanlon, D. O. Identifying the Ground State Structures of Defects in Solids, npj Comput Mater 9, 25, 2023 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-023-00973-1


• Irea on (GitHub, Twitter/X)


• Seán on (GitHub, Twitter/X, website: seankavanagh.com)


• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)


• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)


• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)


• Donate to JOSS

See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/05/josscast-10-defect-structure-searching

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