Eva Zarkadoula, a member of the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution Energy Frontier Research Center, is a R&D associate in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The main focus of her work is the interaction of radiation with matter and the fundamental effects of electronic excitations in the energy deposition, damage creation, and micro-structural alterations, which she investigates with the use of modeling techniques. Eva received her Ph.D. in physics from Queen Mary University and a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Athens. She strongly believes that the combination of modeling and experiments is essential to obtain a fundamental understanding of the processes that take place at the atomistic level during irradiation.