Eunja Kim's expertise is in computational materials research, mainly focused on materials for energy and device applications. She has extensive experience in carrying out atomistic modeling and simulations to investigate the structure-property relationship of critical materials including semiconductors, super hard materials, energetic materials, molten salts, hydrogen storage materials, fuel/waste forms, and cladding materials. She has authored or co-authored over 127 publications in high-impact journals.

• New Grant Award Recognition - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2023-01/31/2023)
• New Grant Award Recognition - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (02/01/2022-02/28/2022)
• STARS - UTEP (09/01/2021)

• Ph D in Solid State Physics, Jeonbuk National University (1996)

• Early elevations of RAS protein level and activity are critical for the development of PDAC in the context of inflammation. Cancer letters 586 (2024), J Ma, F Gong, Eunja Kim, J X. Du , C Leung, S Qingchun, C D. Logsdon, Y Luo, X Li , Weiqin Lu.
• High-temperature chromium diffusion in austenitic stainless steel: Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations Chemical Physics Letters 836 (2024), P. Weck, Eunja Kim.
• Polymorphism and phase transitions in layered uranium (VI) hydroxides: Ab initio lattice dynamics simulations of UO2 (OH) 2 Journal of Applied Physics 136 (2024), P. Weck, Eunja Kim.
• Shock compression of crystalline TeO2 to the high-pressure fluid regime: Insights from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations Journal of Applied Physics 136 (2024), P. Weck, Eunja Kim.
• Experimental demonstration of necessary conditions for X-ray induced synthesis of cesium superoxide Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 3 (2023), Egor Evlyukhin, Petrika Cifligu, Michael Pravica, Pradip K. Bhowmik, Eunja Kim, Dmitry Popov, Changyong Park.

• Ab initio study of dopant incorporation into gamma-UO3 (2024), Eunja Kim, Nicholas Wilson, Eddie Montoya, Ashley Shields, Tyler Spano, Ken Czerwinski.
• Ab Initio Study of the UO₂→U₃O₈ Transition (2024), Volume Las Vegas, Carlos Hernandez, Monica Herrera , Eunja Kim.
• Sodium-containing layered oxides for replacing Li battery cathodes (2024), Daisy Lopez, Yohannes Getahun, Omar Salas, Sujit Adhikari, Eunja Kim, Harikrishnan Nair.
• Computational materials for energy and environment (2023), Eunja Kim.
• Computational materials for energy materials (2023), Eunja Kim.

• Conference: International Workshop on Electronic Structure 2025 (ES25)
• Experimental and Computational assessment of thermodynamic stability of fission products in advanced reactor fuels
• DFT CALCULATIONS OF UO3
• Computational and Experimental Investigation of Thermal-Mechanical- Chemical Mechanisms of High-burnup Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Processes at Elevated Temperatures and Degradation Behavior in Geologic Repositories