Dr. Igor Popov
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PROFESSIONAL POSITION: |
Associate Research Professor |
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(may 2015-present) Joined the Graphene group at the Center for Solid State Physics and New Materials of the Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia (2009 - 2014)Research associate at School of Physics and CRANN at Trinity College Dublin (2008 - 2009) Postdoctoral position, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, TU Dresden (2004 - 2008) PhD Student at Technical University Dresden, Germany (1996 - 2003) MSc at Department of theoretical and experimental Physics, University of Belgrade
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: |
- magnetic materials and multiferroics - topological insulators - electronic and spin transport - scanning probe microscopy (SPM) |
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SKILLS: |
- Abinit, GDFTB, DFTB+, DeMon, Siesta, Smeagol -C++, Pascal, x86 assembly, Prolog, SQL, Bash scripting - OpenMP, MPI, Mathematica, Java EE, Evolutionary algorithms, data mining |
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AWARDS AND HONOURS: |
Graduated with Doctorate Summa Cum Laude - with highest honor Professor-Schwabe-Preis of Unuiversity of Technology Dresden SFI grant at CRANN, Trinity Colledge Dublin 300,000 hours of computing time on Kelvin as well as Lonsdale cluster TCHPC |
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS: |
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS: I.Popov, N.Baadji, S.Sanvito Magnetism and antiferroelectricity in MgB 6 Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 , 107205, I.Popov, T.Yang, S .Berber, G.Seifert, D.Tomanek, Unique structural and transport properties of molybdenum chalcohalide nanowires, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 , 085503 , I.Popov, S.Gemming, S.Okano, N.Ranjan, G.Seifert Electromechanical switch based on Mo6S6 nanowires, Nano Lett. 8 , 4093 , I.Popov, M.Mantega, A.Narayan, S.Sanvito Proximity - induced topological state in graphene, Phys. Rev. B 90 , 035418 , A.Enyashin, L.Yadgarov, L.Houben, I.Popov, M.Weidenbach, R.Tenne, M. Bar - Sadan, G.Seifert New route for stabilization of 1T - WS 2 and MoS 2 phases,J. Phys. Chem. C 115 , 24586 E.Erdogan, I.Popov, G.Seifert Robust electronic and transport properties of graphene break nanojunctions, Phys. Rev. B 83 , 245417 , E.Erdogan, I.Popov, C.G.Rocha, G.Cunniberti, S.Roche, G.Seifert Engineering carbon chains from mechanically stretched graphene - based materials, Phys. Rev. B 83 , 041401 , I.Popov, S.Gemming, G.Seifert Structural and electronic properties of Mo 6 S 8 clusters deposited on a Au(111) surface investigated with density functional theory, Phys. Rev. B 75 , 245436 , I.Milosevic, B.Nikolic, E.Dobardzic, M.Damnjanovic , I.Popov, G.Seifert Electronic properties and optical spectra of MoS 2 And WS 2 nanotubes, Phys. Rev. B 76 , 233414 , I.Popov, T.Kunze, S.Gemming, G.Seifert Self - assembly of Mo 6 S 8 clusters on the Au(111) surface, Eur. Phys. J. D 45 , 439 , S.Gemming, I.Popov, M.Lehmann Star - shaped oligobenzoates: non - conventional mesogens forming columnar helical mesophases, Phil. Mag. Lett . 87 , 883 , Polymorphysm in liquid crystals from star - shaped M.Lehmann, M.Jahr, B.Donnio, R.Graf, S.Gemming and I.Popov mesogens, Chem. Eur. J. 14 , 3562 , A.Enyashin, I.Popov, G.Seifert Stability and electronic properties of rhenium disulfide nanotubes, Phys. Stat. Sol. B 246 , 114 , E.Erdogan, I.Popov, A.N.Enyashin, G.Seifert Transport properties of MoS 2 nanoribbons: edge priority, Eur. Phys. J. B 85 , 33 , |
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