I obtained my BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (EESC-USP). There I worked on the FEM applied to polymers undergoing dynamic deformation. I also received my Diplome d'Ingenieur from ENSTA Paris majoring in smart mobility and vehicular engineering. On top of that, I got my MS in Solid Mechanics from Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris). During my master's thesis I studied the interaction between screw dislocations and interstitial solutes in bcc alloys using ab initio calculations at CEA Saclay. In Fall 2022, I started my PhD in MSE at UC Berkeley. My research will focus on dislocations in high entropy alloys (HEAs) through computational studies.

Pedro Borges

PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley

Research Interests

Material ScienceMultiscale modelingCondensed matter physics

Publications

10 publications

Title	Year	Cited by
Kink bands promote exceptional fracture resistance in a NbTaTiHf refractory medium-entropy alloy DH Cook, P Kumar, MI Payne, CH Belcher, P Borges, W Wang, F Walsh, ... Science 384 (6692), 178-184, 2024	2024	249
Electronic descriptors for dislocation deformation behavior and intrinsic ductility in bcc high-entropy alloys PPPO Borges, RO Ritchie, M Asta Science Advances 10 (38), eadp7670, 2024	2024	94
Ab initio investigation of the screw dislocation-hydrogen interaction in bcc tungsten and iron PPPO Borges, E Clouet, L Ventelon Acta Materialia 234, 118048, 2022	2022	54
Local lattice distortions and the structural instabilities in bcc Nb–Ta–Ti–Hf high-entropy alloys: An ab initio computational study PPPO Borges, RO Ritchie, M Asta Acta Materialia 262, 119415, 2024	2024	51
Chemical trends favoring interstitial cluster formation in bcc high-entropy alloys from first-principles calculations PPPO Borges, RO Ritchie, M Asta Acta Materialia 294, 121091, 2025	2025	21
Fracture behavior of high-entropy alloys: Resistance to fracture from strain hardening and softening P Kumar, DH Cook, W Wang, M Payne, PPPO Borges, AM Minor, M Asta, ... Matter 8 (4), 102042, 2025	2025	16
Ductility mechanisms in complex concentrated refractory alloys from atomistic fracture simulations W Wang, P Kumar, DH Cook, F Walsh, B Zhang, PPPO Borges, D Farkas, ... npj Computational Materials 11 (1), 330, 2025	2025	13
Tunable energy landscape of screw dislocation cores by compositional fluctuations in bcc high-entropy alloys from first-principles calculations PPPO Borges, RO Ritchie, M Asta Physical Review Materials 9 (9), 093602, 2025	2025	10
Chemical complexity suppresses interstitial solute segregation to screw dislocation cores in the bcc NbTaTiHfZr high-entropy alloy PPPO Borges, RO Ritchie, M Asta Acta Materialia 308, 122024, 2026	2026	1
Effects of interstitial oxygen on ω transformations and twin formation in bcc NbTaTiHf multi-principal element alloy from first-principles PPPO Borges, RO Ritchie, M Asta Computational Materials Science 266, 114569, 2026	2026	1

Citations

	All	Since 2019
Citations	510	509
h-index	8	8
i10-index	8	8

Co-authors

4 co-authors

M. Asta

Robert O. Ritchie

Emmanuel Clouet

Lisa Ventelon