Miriam Pena Alvarez

Dr M Pena Alvarez

Miriam is a member of the following School research institute and research areas:

Miriam currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:

Miriam has featured in the following recent School news stories:

Revisiting the phase diagram of methane DOI
Mengnan Wang, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Ross T. Howie and Eugene Gregoryanz, Physical Review Letters, 136, 4, p. 1-6 (2026)
Hydrogen vacancy induced superconductivity collapse in A15 lanthanum hydride
Israel Osmond, Lewis J. Conway, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, Callum Stevens, Tomas Marqueno, Hannah A. Shuttleworth, Andrew Huxley, Chris J. Pickard, Graeme J. Ackland, Ross Howie and Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Physical Review Letters (2025)
Theory-guided discovery of pressure-induced transitions in the fast-ion conductor BaSnF4 DOI
Robin Turnbull, Zhang YingLong, Claudio Cazorla, Akun Liang, Rahman Saqib, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Catalin Popescu, Laura Pampillo and Daniel Errandonea, Physical review B, 112, 18, p. 1-10 (2025)
Close-packed atomic bromine up to 230 GPa DOI
E. Edmund, M. H. Dalsaniya, R. T. Howie, E. Greenberg, V. B. Prakapenka, M. Pena-Alvarez, M. Hanfland, P. Dalladay-Simpson, D. Kurzydlowski and A. Hermann, Physical Review B, 112, 13, p. 1-7 (2025)
High-Pressure Synthesis and Characterization of the Novel Potassium Superhydride KH9 DOI
Tomas Marqueno, Israel Osmond, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, Hannah A. Shuttleworth, Andreas Hermann, Ross T. Howie and Miriam Pena-Alvarez, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16, 37, p. 9701-9707 (2025)