Awards
LANL Fellows Prize (2010)
Slansky Fellow Award (2001)
LANL Director's Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2001)
Arnold Weissberger Fellow (1997-1998)
Graduate Student Award in Computational Chemistry (1996)
Elon Huntington Hooker Fellow (1996-1997)
Sherman Clarke Fellow (1996-1997)
Diploma with Honor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1994)

Research interests:
Relation between optical and chemical properties of organic and semiconductor electronic
functional materials; Charge and energy transfer in biological and artificial antenna complexes;
Energy security and photovoltaic technologies, Development of modern computational methods for
molecular optical properties; time-dependent density functional theory and semiempirical methods;
Nonlinear optical response of organic chromophores; Adiabatic and non-adiabatic molecular
dynamics of electronically excited states; Collective electronic excitations and optical response of
confined excitons in conjugated polymers, carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanoparticles, mixed
halide perovskites and molecular aggregates; Ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy; Nonlinear dynamics
of complex classical and quantum systems.