Selected Professional Activities (Last ten years)

2010 Invited speaker at the XIIIth Tomsk Innovation Forum, Tomsk, Russia, May 20,21, 2010

2010 Invited speaker and Program Committee member of international Nano Technology Education Conference, Moscow, Russia, May 18-20, 2010

2009 Invited speaker at the international school for young scientists in innovations Management, Nozhnij Novgorod, Russia, October 26-30, 2009.

2009 Co-chairman of the of the symposium and summer school on Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy (NGC2009) and 14th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference (CSTC2009), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 10-14

2008 Associate Research Professor, Office of Vice-President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State University

2007 Visiting Professor, Chemical System Engineering, University of Tokyo

2007 Invited talk, MINOS-EURONET meeting, Bucharest, Romania, May 23-25, 2007

2007 General chair of NGC2007 meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, March 12-16, 2007

2006 Invited talk, 209th ECS Meeting, Denver, Colorado, May 7-12, 2006

2006 Invited lecture, Materials Science & Technology Institute (EMPA), Zurich, Switzerland

2006 Invited lecture, University of Luis Pasteur, Srasbourg, France

2006 Visiting Scientist, University of Paderborn, Germany

2005 Co-chairman of the symposium “Combinatorial Methods and Informatics in Materials Science” at the MRS 2005 fall meeting, Boston, MA

2005 Invited lecture in University of California, Berkeley, California

2005 Invited lecture in Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), Menlo Park, California

2005 Invited speaker, Nano Electronics & Photonics Forum, Palo Alto, california

2005 Visiting Senior Scientist, Chemical System Engineering, University of Tokyo

2005 Invited lecture in Florida International University. Hosted by the IEEE chapter

2004 Visiting senior researcher at the Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2004 Visiting senior researcher at the National Microelectronic Research Center, Cork, Ireland

2004 Chairman of the Program Committee of the Symposium and Summer School on Nano and Giga Challenges in Microelectronics (MGCM2004), September 13-17, Krakow, Poland: http://asdn.net/ngcm2004/

2004 Co-chairman of the Atomic Scale Materials Design: Modeling and Characterization symposium at the 2004 E-MRS Spring Meeting, May 24-28, Strasbourg, France

2003 Co-chairman of the Atomic Scale Material Design Modeling & Simulation symposium at the annual Meeting of the Material Research Society, MRS 2003 Fall Meeting, December 1-5, Boston, MA

2003 Co-chairman of the US-Russian Workshop on Software Design: Bridging Atomic and Macroscopic Scales in Materials, Process and Device Design, November 13-15, Tempe, AZ: http://www.atomicscaledesign.net/swn2003/

2002 Co-chairman of the Atomic Scale Materials Design Symposium at E-MRS Spring
Meeting, June 17-21, Strasbourg, France

2002 Co-chairman of the Symposium and Summer School on Nano and Giga Challenges in Microelectronics Research and Opportunities in Russia, September 10-13, 2002, Moscow, Russia: http://www.asdn.net/moscow/

2002 Co-chairman of the Symposium on Software Development for Process and
Materials Design, September 15-16, Moscow Russia: http://www.asdn.net/moscow/software.shtml

2001-2003 International project in modeling high-k materials (HIKE). Funded by European Commission: http://www.nmrc.ie/hike/

2001-2003 Supervisor of the Molecular Dynamics group at the Sarov Open Computing Center, sarov, Russia

2000-2003 Supervisor of the Surface Chemistry group at the Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia