Ph.D. (Chemistry) University of Florida, 2005
GPA: 4.0/4.0 Thesis: ``Ab initio Density Functional Theory'' supervised by Prof. Rodney J. Bartlett
B.S. (Physics) Novosibirsk State University, 1999
GPA: 4.75/5.0 Diploma thesis: ``Semiempirical NDDO method with electron-nuclear attraction integrals evaluated analytically'' supervised by Dr. Igor L. Zilberberg
2007 - current NRC Postdoctoral Fellow with
Dr. Brett Dunlap
Theoretical Chemistry Section, US Naval
Research Laboratory.
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of hypervelocity collisions of high-energy molecules. Electronic structure and dynamics of chemical bond fragmentation.
2005 - 2007 Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Shaul
Mukamel
Department of Chemistry, University of California,
Irvine
Development of theoretical methods for simulation of time-domain nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Design and simulation of novel x-ray coherent nonlinear spectroscopies.
2001 - 2005 Graduate research assistant with
Prof. Rodney J. Bartlett, Quantum Theory Project, Department of
Chemistry, University of Florida.
Development of novel many-body electronic structure methods that combine density-functional and wavefunction-based approaches.
2000 - 2001 Graduate teaching assistant
Department
of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Preparation and evaluation of homeworks and tests for undergraduate course ``Physical Chemistry''
1999 - 2000 Graduate research assistant with
Prof. Georgiy M. Zhidomirov, Boreskov Institute of
Catalysis, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Electronic structure of the nest defect in zeolites.
1998 - 1999 Undergraduate research assistant with
Dr. Igor L. Zilberberg, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis,
Novosibirsk, Russia.
A modification of the semiempirical NDDO approximation.