Last update: 08/19/2023
Nikolay Golubev
Assistant Professor of Physics
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Office: PAS447
Tel: (520)-596-6554
Mail: 1118 E. Fourth St., Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
E-mail: ngolubev.AT.arizona.edu
Education
Doctoral
- Sept. 2013 - Dec. 2017
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
Department of Chemistry. Magna Cum Laude.
Undergraduate
- Sept. 2008 - May 2013
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
Department of Chemistry. Summa Cum Laude.
Research Experience
- since Aug. 2022
University of Arizona, USA.
Department of Physics, Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics group. Assistant Professor. - May 2018 - July 2022
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Laboratory of Theoretical Physical Chemistry (LCPT). Scientist.
Advisor: Prof. Jiri Vanicek - Sept. 2013 - Apr. 2018
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry Group. PhD student.
Advisors: Prof. Lorenz S. Cederbaum and Dr. Alexander Kuleff - Jan. 2013 - Apr. 2013
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD). Visiting Researcher.
Advisor: Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf - Aug. 2012 - Nov. 2012; June 2013 - Aug. 2013
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Department of Chemistry. Visiting Researcher.
Advisor: Prof. Gunnar Nyman and Prof. Magnus Gustafsson - Feb. 2010 - June 2013
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate researcher.
Advisor: Dr. Dmitry Bezrukov
Fellowships, Prizes, and Honors
- Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award, 2023 - 2028
- The Branco Weiss Fellowship - Society in Science, 2018 - 2023
- Dr. Sophie Bernthsen-Fonds Fellowship, 2015
- International Max Planck Research School for Quantum Dynamics (IMPRS-QD) Fellowship, 2013 - 2017
- International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists "Lomonosov", First Prize (2012, 2015)
- Moscow State University Scholarship (for acad. achievement, stipend), 2008 - 2013
PhD Schools and Workshops
- Les Houches WE Heraeus Workshop “Ultrafast phenomena at nanostructures: Attosecond physics meets plasmonics”, Les Houches Physics Center, Les Houches, France. May 8 - 13, 2016
- Kyoto Winter School 2016 “From Materials to Life: Multidisciplinary Challenges”, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. February 15 - 26, 2016
- International Workshop on Atomic Physics, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. November 23 - 27, 2015
- Ultrafast X-ray Summer School 2015, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. June 22 - 26, 2015
- Nordita scientific program on Control of Ultrafast Quantum Phenomena, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden. May 29 - June 12, 2015
- PhD School and Scientific meeting of the INT-network CORINF on Correlated Multi-electron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields, Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica, France. April 27 - May 3, 2014
Talks
- 54th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE), Snowbird, UT, USA.
Characterizing electronic coherence in molecules in phase space, January 2024. - The 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP), Spokane, USA.
Ultrafast electron dynamics in multilayer graphene, June 2023. - The 2022 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science Conference, Rochester, USA.
Efficient Semiclassical Evaluation of Electronic Coherences in Polyatomic Molecules, October 2022. - 8th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology ATTO 2022, Orlando, USA.
Core-valence attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, July 2022. - CECAM Workshop Challenges of molecular spectroscopy: Theory meets experiment, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Core-Valence Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules, June 2022. - NCCR MUST 2022, International Conference on Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology, Grindelwald, Switzerland.
Core-valence attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, June 2022. - The 53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP), Orlando, USA.
Search for long-lasting electronic coherence using on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical dynamics, June 2022. - American Chemical Society's March Meeting 2022, San Diego, USA.
Core-Valence Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules, virtual participation, March 2022. - American Physical Society's March Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA.
Core-Valence Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules, March 2022. - The 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to COVID) International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, organized online.
On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of electronic coherences in polyatomic molecules reveals a simple mechanism of decoherence, December 2021. - Joint Annual Meeting of Austrian Physical Society and Swiss Physical Society, Innsbruck, Austria.
Core-valence attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, September 2021. - The 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP), organized on-line.
Core-valence attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, June 2021. - Deutsch-japanisches Universitätskonsortium HeKKSaGOn meeting, Heidelberg, Germany.
Modelling of laser induced ICD cascade in atomic clusters, September 2019. - Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2019, Zürich, Switzerland.
An approach for calculating the logarithmic derivative of the time-dependent wavefunction, September 2019. - EAS conference, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.
A new approach for calculating the logarithmic derivative of the time-dependent wavefunction, February 2019 - EAS conference, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.
Molecular quantum dynamics based on exact factorization of the wavefunction, February 2018 - EAS conference, Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.
Coupled electron-nuclear dynamics after outer-valence ionization of propiolic acid, January 2017 - IMPRS-QD meeting, Odenwald, Germany.
Controlling charge migration in molecules, October 2015 - International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists "Lomonosov - 2015", Moscow, Russia.
Control of charge migration in molecules by ultrashort laser pulses, Section of Physical Chemistry I, April 2015 - IMPRS-QD interview, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany.
New Statistical Thermodynamics Approach to Molecular Dynamics Analysis, January 2013 - XXX Russian School-Symposium of Young Scientists on Chemical Kinetics, Berezky, Russia.
Theoretical study of radiative association: cross sections and rate constants for the formation of SiP, November 2012 - Second Scientific Conference with International Participation "Advances of synthesis and complexation", The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow.
Theoretical study of the process of adsorption of gas at the surface, Section of Colloidal and Physical Chemistry, May 2012 - International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists "Lomonosov - 2012", Moscow, Russia.
Thermodynamic description of the sorption process by using molecular dynamics, Section of Quantum Chemistry, April 2012 - 9th Kurchatov Youth Scientific School, Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia.
Theoretical study of the adsorption of monatomic ideal gas at the surface", Section of fundamental research, November 2011
Seminars
- Seminar of the Department of Physics, Shanghai University, China. Online talk.
Ultrafast charge migration in atoms, molecules, and solids, July 2023. - Kolloquium für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Control of ultrafast charge migration and charge-directed reactivity, October 2019. - Seminar of LCPT laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Molecular quantum dynamics based on exact factorization of the wavefunction, December 2018 - Seminar of LCPT laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Controlling charge migration in molecules, July 2018 - Seminar of Heidelberg TC-group, Heidelberg, Germany.
Electron-nuclear dynamics and its control by external electromagnetic fields, January 2018 - Seminar of Dr. Vitali Averbukh's group, Imperial College London, London.
Coupled electron-nuclear dynamics in charge migration, July 2017 - Seminar of LCPQ laboratory, Toulouse, France.
Controlling ultrafast charge migration and charge-directed reactivity, March 2017 - Seminar of Heidelberg TC-group, Trifels, Germany.
Control of charge migration in molecules by ultrashort laser pulses, October 2014 - Seminar of Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Quantum Mechanics, Moscow, Russia.
Theoretical study of diatomic radiative association reaction, September 2013 - Master Thesis defense, Moscow, Russia.
Molecular modeling of thermodynamics of sorption, May 2013 - Seminar of Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Quantum Mechanics, Moscow, Russia.
Self-Consistent Implementation of a Density Dependent Dispersion Correction, April 2013 - Seminar of Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design, Lausanne, Switzerland.
New Statistical Thermodynamics Approach to Molecular Dynamics Analysis, March 2013 - Seminar of Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Quantum Mechanics, Moscow, Russia.
Theoretical study of radiative association: cross sections and rate constants for the formation of SiP, December 2012 - Seminar of Prof. Gunnar Nyman's research group, Göteborg, Sweden.
Theoretical study of radiative association: cross sections and rate constants for the formation of SiP, November 2012 - Seminar on "Computational Quantum Chemistry course", Moscow, Russia.
Methods of calculation of molecular integrals on the orbitals with an arbitrary angular momentum, April 2012 - Seminar on "Computational Quantum Chemistry course", Moscow, Russia.
Matrix elements in s-function basis set, April 2011
Posters
- Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society 2021, organized on-line.
Core-valence attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, September 2021. - NCCR MUST Annual Meeting 2021, Grindelwald, Switzerland.
Core-valence attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules, September 2021. - 10th Triennial Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, Tromsø, Norway.
On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of electronic coherences in polyatomic molecules, July 2019. - LACUS DAY 2019, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Molecular quantum dynamics based on exact factorization of the molecular wavefunction, February 2019 - NCCR MUST Annual Meeting 2019, Grindelwald, Switzerland.
Molecular quantum dynamics based on exact factorization of the molecular wavefunction, January 2019 - International Symposium on Ultrafast Science: From the infrared to the X-rays, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Controlling charge migration in molecules, November 2018 - Les Houches WE Heraeus Workshop, Les Houches Physics Center, Les Houches, France.
Control of charge migration in molecules by ultrashort laser pulses, May 2016 - Kyoto Winter School 2016, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Controlling charge migration in molecules, February 2016 - International Workshop on Atomic Physics, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
Controlling charge migration in molecules, November 2015 - CORINF-2014 PhD School, Cargèse, Corsica, France.
Control of populations of two-level systems by a single resonant laser pulse, April 2014 - V Youth Conference, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia.
New approach to the calculation of thermodynamic functions of the adsorption process at surface, April 2012