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Education
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Ph.D. (Physics) 2001 Ohio University, Athens, OH
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M.Sc. (Physics) 1996 St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia
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B.S. (Physics) 1994 St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg,Russia
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Professional Experience
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2001-2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate NC State University
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2004-2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate Rutgers, the State University of NJ
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08/2006 - present Assistant Scientist Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
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Professional Service
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Referee for APL, PRB, PRL, JPCM and other journals.
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Session organizer (Synthesis and characterization of ferroelectric materials: theory and experiment) for the 21st International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics and Functionalities, Colorado Springs, CO, Sep. 27-30, 2009.
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Session organizer (Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Oxides) for the 2010 American Physical Society March meeting, Portland, OR, March 15-19, 2010.
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Research Interests
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Ferroelectric materials
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Electronic structure calculations using density functional theory
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Cooperative Jahn-Teller effect
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Synergistic Activities
Research Collaborations on oxide- and polymer-based electroactive materials:
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(I) Collaboration with ORNL (H. N. Lee) and Univ. Wisconsin-Madison (P. Evans) researchers to study polarization and piezoelectricity enhancement in ferroelectic-oxide superlattices.
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(II) Strategic LDRD collaboration with other ANL researchers to design a growth facility for phason-ferroelectric materials.
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(III) Collaboration with Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic researchers (J. Hlinka, V. Zelezny) to map out the functional properties of strained ferroelectic-oxide superlattices.
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(IV) Collaboration with Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln (S. Ducharme and J.M. Takacs under DoE EPSCoR) on rational design of molecular ferroelectric materials and nanostructures.
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