Physics
Ivan Oleynik
Ivan Oleynik
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: PHY 0367
Lab: PHY 368 / PHY 225
Phone: 813/974-8186
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Education
Ph.D. physics, 1992, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Research
Research interests: Theory and Simulations of Materials (TSM)
- Energetic materials and matter at extreme conditions
- Materials for information technology including molecular and spin electronics
- Shock synthesis and processing of electronic materials
- Density functional theory, tight-binding, bond-order potentials & molecular dynamics
Dr. Ivan Oleynik is an Associate professor of Physics and is the director of the Materials Simulation Laboratory at the University of South Florida. He is an expert in computational materials physics and nanoscience. Dr. Oleynik received the BSc and MSc degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and technology, and the Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Before coming to USF, Dr. Oleynik was a senior research scientist at University of Oxford, UK. He was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship in 1995 and ONR Senior Summer Research Fellowships in 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Dr. Oleynik's current research focuses on modeling the atomic, electronic and chemical properties of systems of fundamental and technological importance using the powerful arsenal of first-principles density functional theory, tight-binding and classical interatomic molecular dynamics techniques. The research thrusts are (1) energetic materials; (2) materials at extreme conditions; (3) materials for information technology including molecular and spin electronics; and (4) shock synthesis and processing of electronic materials. The ultimate goal is to establish structure-property relationships that are difficult or sometimes impossible to obtain from experiment.
Other areas of interest include graphene nanomechanics, development of analytic bond order potentials for large-scale atomistic simulations, surface and interface science including surface chemistry of CVD diamond, metal-oxide and metal-polymer interfaces in magnetic tunnel junctions, multiscale modeling of thin film growth, new materials for energy applications and massively-parallel materials simulations using Tera- and Peta- Flop computers.
The research program at MSL is supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, and ARO. The total amount of funding brought by Dr. Oleynik for the last four years is $1.6 million.
MSL is one of the major users of the NSF funded Teragrid network of supercomputers. MSL has been recently awarded 1.2 million CPU hours at TACC's Ranger and Lonestar, NCSA's Abe and LSU's Queenbee. Dr. Oleynik has also recently received a highly competitive DURIP award to build a Linux cluster for simulations of matter at extreme conditions.
Dr. Oleynik's group includes five graduate students, one undergraduate student, two postdoctoral associates, and research associate professor. He is running a vibrant REU program supported by NSF that is specifically focused on attracting minority, and female students.
More information can be found at MSL web site: http://msl.cas.usf.edu .
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