- Associate Department Head for Research, Materials Science & Engineering
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Chevron Professor II
- Presidential Impact Fellow
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow
- Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-5416
- FAX: 979-845-3081
- Email: rarroyave@tamu.edu
- Office: RDMC 216
- Website: Research Webpage

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- B.S., Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Research Interests
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- Primary field: Computational Materials Science
- Methods: computational thermodynamics and kinetics of materials; integration of atomic-scale materials simulations and phenomenological thermodynamic and kinetic models; prediction of thermo-mechanical properties of materials through atomic-scale methods; development of phase field methods to describe the time evolution of microstructures; physics-based materials design; materials data infrastructure; materials informatics; ICME
- Materials: lead-free alloys; high temperature materials (metals and ceramics); light metals; amorphous metals; bulk and thin film functional materials, nuclear materials, high strength structural alloys, Heusler alloys
- Phenomena: thermodynamic stability of materials; interfacial and surface effects on thermodynamics of materials; kinetics of phase transformations; thin film thermodynamics;
Awards & Honors
- FMD Journal of Electronic Materials Best Paper Award - 2014
- Distinguished Service Award, the Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division (EMPMD) of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) – 2014
- Member, Level II. National System of Researchers, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico – 2013-2018
- Select Young Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University – 2012
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation-Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation – 2010
- Young Leader Internship, the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) – 2006
- American Welding Society Graduate Research Fellowship – 2002-2003
- Academic Excellence Award, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), México – 1996
- Second Place Statewide. Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Monterrey, México – 1996
Selected Publications
- Park, M. S.; Gibbons, S. L..; Arróyave, R.. Confinement Effects on Evolution of Intermetallic Compounds during Metallurgical Joint Formation. Journal of Electronic Materials, (2014), 43, pp. 2510-2520
- Junkaew, A.; Ham, B.; Zhang, X.; Arróyave, R. Tailoring the Formation of Metastable Mg through Interfacial Engineering: a Phase Stability Analysis. CALPHAD, (2014), 45, pp. 145-150.
- Chari, A.; Dogan, E.; Talapatra, A.; Chivukula, A.; Garay, A.; Karaman, I.; Arróyave, R. Computational Thermodynamics of the CoNiGa High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy System. CALPHAD, (2014), 45, pp. 167-177.
- Santamarta, R.; Arróyave, R.; Pons, J.; Evirgen, A.; Karaman, I.; Karaca, H. E.; Noebe, R. D. TEM Study of Structural and Microstructural Characteristics of a Precipitate Phase in Ni-rich Ni-Ti-Hf and Ni-Ti-Zr Shape Memory Alloys Acta Materialia (2013), 61(16), pp.6191-6206.
- Li, S.; Zhu, R.; Karaman, I.; Arróyave, R. Development of a Kinetic Model to Predict the Volume Fraction of Retained Austenite after the Two-stage Heat Treatment in TRIP Steels. Acta Materialia (2013), 61(8), pp. 2884-2894.
- Entel, P.; Siewert, M.; Gruner, M. E.; Herper, H. C.; Comtesse, D.; Arróyave, R.; Singh, N.; Talapatra, A.; Sokolowskiy, V. V.; Buchelnikov, V. D.; Albertini, F.; Righi, L.; Chernenko, V. A. Complex Magnetic Ordering as a Driving Mechanism of Multifunctional Properties of Heusler Alloys from First Principles. European Physical Journal B, Special Issue on New Trends in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2013), 86(2), pp. 1-11.
- Park, M.-S.; Arróyave, R. Concurrent Nucleation, Formation and Growth of two Intermetallic Compounds (Cu6Sn5 and Cu3Sn) during Early Stages of Pb-free Soldering. Acta Materialia (2012), 60(3), pp. 923-934.