Anatoli Chkrebtii
PhD

Brief Research Description

Prof. A. Chkrebtii (publications under A.I. SHKREBTII) is internationally renowned for his innovative research that correlate at microscopic level dynamics, electronics, and optics of modern materials and their application. He is a coauthor of four monographs and more than 130 publications in distinguished research journals (Phys. Rev. Lett., Appl. Phys. Lett., Phys. Rev. B and other). Prof. A. Chkrebtii’s “properties of materials in motion" field is based on the most advanced computational techniques in solid state physics. It uniquely combines parameter-free (i) molecular dynamics to track materials’ properties and their evolution at the most detailed atomic level in a wide temperature range; (ii) electronic structure tools to follow distribution of an individual electron, its transitions and related single-electron chemistry; (iii) advanced signal processing techniques that extracts non-equilibrium temperature, pressure, and external radiation dependent properties, (iv) sophisticated computer visualization and (v) comprehensive description of the optical response for various materials characterization and photovoltaics.

His recent focus is on hydrogen-bonding, nanomaterials hydrogenation, ubiquitous in physical, chemical, and biological sciences. Such comprehensive combination represents a turning point in a very accurate description and understanding of the structural, dynamical and chemical properties of hydrogen in confined systems, including nano-composite materials, including extreme conditions. Optimisation of solar-based photovoltaics systems and 2D nanomaterials, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride hBN, In2Se3 and their heterosystems are another topic of recent research