Dr. Oleg Obolensky

Formalism for description of statistical properties of unfolded polypeptides, including residual dipolar couplings in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy [Obolensky, Schlepckow, Schwalbe, Solov'yov, J. Biomol. NMR, 39, 1 (2007)]
Prediction of T-shaped geometry of coronene (C24H12) dimer [Obolensky, Semenikhina, Solov'yov, Greiner, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 107, 1335 (2007)] which has implications on structures of coronene clusters [Obolensky, I.A. Solov'yov, Solov'yov, in preparation, 2007]
Formalism comprehensively describing the kinetics of the catalytically assisted growth of carbon nanotubes [Obolensky, I.A. Solov'yov, Solov'yov, presented at S3C meeting, Brand, Austria, 2007]
Elucidation of the role played by geometrical and statistical factors in fission of atomic clusters [Obolensky, Lyalin, Solov'yov, Greiner, Phys. Rev. B 72, 085433 (2005)]
Development of the class architecture of the Cluster Searcher package; implementation of an original local minimization algorithm based on Powell's conjugate directions method; implementation of building blocks concept; implementation of multidimensional interaction potentials in the package

1990-1996: School of Electronics at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Solid State Optoelectronics department, Saint Petersburg, Russia.Major: solid state theory, theoretical physics.Degrees: Master of Science (1996). (Master of Science diploma work: "Influence of exchange interaction on band gap narrowing in semiconductors". Diploma with honor.)
1996 - 1999: Postgraduate student at the Solid State Optoelectronics department, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.Area of research: bremsstrahlung, collisions of atomic particles.Degree: Candidate of Physical-Mathematical Science degree in theoretical physics, equivalent to Ph.D. degree (2000) (Ph.D. thesis: “Polarizational bremsstrahlung of inner shell electrons”.)

NATO/NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (November 2002 – October 2003), USA
Fellowship in Physics sponsored by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (January 2001 – December 2001), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Prize winner of the Saint-Petersburg City competition of PhD student research (1998), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Graduate student fellowship from Soros Foundation (1998), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Prize winner of the Saint-Petersburg City competition of PhD student research (1997), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Prize winner of the Russian National competition of student research (1995), Russia

January 2008 - present: Research Specialist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
March 2005 - December 2007: Junior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
October 2004 – February 2005: Guest researcher at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
November 2003 – April 2004: Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
November 2002 – October 2003: NATO/NSF Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
April 2000 – November 2001: Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
May 1999-present: Research Fellow at the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
May 1999 – April 2000: Teaching assistant at the Mathematics Department, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia