Education:
1993 – 1996     Post-graduate  student at Metal-Polymer Research Institute of Belarus Ac.Sci.
Degree:            Ph. D.   in  Material  Sciences

Dissertation:    Design of thin film metal-polymer materials for optical information carrier
February, 12,  1997, Belarus.  139 p.,  193 references.
Re-defended in Ukraine in 2000.   I have two Ph.D. Diploma.

1975 - 1981       student,     Engineering-Physical Faculty  of   Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Degree:              MS in Physics of Metals, 1981.

Awards:  3 months Fellowship in Potsdam University funded by DAAD
                   1 month NATO Expert visit, NATO CLG Grant
                two BMBF Grants: Ukr 004 and Ukr 009

Work experience:

2004 and 2005  Institute for laser/plasma/optronics, Wildau University, Research Fellow, Temporary Contract.
1999 – present    Department of Optoelectronics of  Semiconductor Molecular Systems,
            Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National  Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
            Senior Research Fellow
1996  - 1999   Thin Film Physics and Technology Department,
 Metal-Polymer Research Institute of Belarus Academy  of Sciences,   Researcher

Subject of research:  Supervising the Lab. for  film of organic dielectrics and semiconductors deposition from gas phase. Choosing the general direction, materials and deposition techniques.
Investigation of structure, composition and optical properties  of  polymer, dye and nanocomposite films deposited  from gas phase: thermal and laser evaporation,  plasma dissociation, pyrolysis. Combined deposition methods for organic molecules with complex chemical structure and for nanocomposites. Ordered and aligned growth of organic films.
Interaction of nanocomposite films with laser radiation, optical induced processes, nonlinear optics, luminescence.
Experimental techniques:  vacuum, pyrolytic, plasma and laser deposition installations, UV-VIS, IRS and Raman spectroscopy, PL, ellipsometry, SEM, TEM,  AFM, XPS, AES, XRD, electrical, adhesion  etc. measurements.

1981 – 1993   Institute for Problems of Information Recording of Ukrainian Academy  of Sciences
Engineer,  Researcher, Head of group

Outline of past and current research

Research activity was started in 1980 in the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
MS project: ‘Nitriding of electrolytic Fe coatings’. Film structure and microhardness before and after nitriding were studied by optical microscopy, SEM and x-ray diffraction.

My work in Institute for Problems of Information Recording was began  by solving the task how to deposit multi-component Te  film in a vacuum. The next task was to develop deposition method for polymer sublayer and dye optical recording media.   I was the head of  group to design materials and technologies of WORM. To deposit optical media onto inner surface of tube both MOC PECVD and thermal evaporation were  used. I was the ideas generator in department. My duties were began from making a decision, what material had to be used and what deposition method had to be used to produce  optical  media. Then I had to decide what control methods during film deposition and what structural-sensitive methods had to be used to study films properties.

After USSR destruction I got a post-graduate studentship in MPRI  in Belarus.  I continued research  for metal-polymer film deposition by  co-evaporation and MOC PECVD.   I was responsible person for this topic in the Department. Later - polyparaxylylene films preparation and characterization by VIS, IRS, ellipsometry, XRD, TEM.  My duty was to unite and explain all experimental data.
With   Inst of Organic Chemistry we studied complex organic compounds polymerization in plasma . The understanding of requirements to chemical structure of compounds was gained and films from some compounds were deposited. Laser evaporation was applied to  dyes.  Evaporation and plasma activation were used for dye and dye+polymer film deposition. Polymer films filled with  dye nanoparticles were deposited.  PTFE, PClTFE, PE, PPS etc. polymers were used. Films have  some structural, optical and termodynamical features which origin have to be studied further.

My work in ISP NASU was began from Lab. building.  Huge organisational efforts were spent to put into operation vacuum etc. equipment.
Computer controlled deposition installations united several deposition methods were made. All technologies were put into operation from zero level. Cooperation with Institutes in Ca, De, Fr, It, PL, UK  in the field of nano-composite films for nonlinear optics and sensors was established.

Metal, dye and dye+metal filled polymer nano-composite film were deposited.  We are  developing both the new dyes and combined deposition tehcnologies for films with optical properties needed for  optoelectronics devices.

Research for the film deposition with oriented structure was began. Squaraine oriented films were succesfully obtained. Organized dye-metal-polymer nanocomposite films are in process of studies.

Research for organized films for optoelectronics and nonlinear optics are carrying out togethre with Group of professor S.Schrader, Wildau University.
My duties at temporary Contract are to create vacuum deposition Lab. for organic functional films in Wildau.