Interest and Abilities

Interest

My general areas of interest are:

Illustration 1: Oxidized Si nanocrystallite

• Electronic structure and optical properties of semiconductor materials (silicon, silicon oxide, germanium and group-III nitrides) and nanostructures (nanocrystallites, nanowires etc).

• Impurities and native defects in solids and nanostructures.

• Ab initio methods and code implementation based on density-functional theory (DFT), local-density approximation (LDA), and generalized-gradient approximation (GGA)

• Methods on many-body perturbation theory such as Green Function and screened Coulomb potential (GW), Bethe-Salpeter Equations for the polarization function (BSE).

• Software development and integration with experimental setup.

Abilities and Knowledge

• Experience with first-principles (ab initio) codes based on DFT [e.g. Wien 97, Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP)]

• Computer languages: FORTRAN (77 and 90), C, and C++.

• Mathematica®

• Linux and UNIX® (as user and administrator).

• Microsoft Windows® (as user).

• Microsoft Office® (Word®, Excel®, Powerpoint®) and OpenOffice®

• LaTeX (scientific editor).

• More than 30 poster and talk presentations in scientific conferences.

• Referee of journals from the American Physical Society.

Last update  13.09.2007