About Me

I am Dr. Achraf Atila. I work at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin on atomistic simulations of inorganic glasses. I am a computational material scientist focusing on amorphous materials, strongly interested in the relationship between composition and physical properties of glasses and in building the simulation workflows that make that science possible.

Amorphous materials Molecular dynamics Glass science Structural analysis Fracture mechanics Open-source workflows

My research sits at the intersection of materials science and physics. I use atomistic simulations and data analysis to study how glasses form, deform, and fail, from the atomic scale up to macroscopic properties.

Open-Source Software

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amorphouspy

End-to-end computational glass science framework — melt-quench workflows, property calculation, FastAPI backend. Developed with Schott AG and MPI for Sustainable Materials.

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atomex

Python package for analysis of MD simulations — structure, vibrational properties, clustering, and ring statistics.

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More details on the Software page. You can also browse my GitHub and Google Scholar profiles.

In the News

Our recent paper in Physical Review Letters on the slipperiness of ice attracted broad media coverage:

Quanta Magazine Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat. Phys.org Why we slip on ice: Physicists challenge centuries-old assumptions Interesting Engineering Scientists rewrite physics by debunking 200-year-old theory on why ice is slippery Universität des Saarlandes Warum wir auf Eis ausrutschen: Forscher stellen neues Paradigma über das Schmelzen von Eis auf