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Igor Vasiliev

Igor Vasiliev
Professor
Regular Faculty

Contact Info
vasiliev@nmsu.edu
575-646-3710
Gardiner Hall 259

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Expertise: computational material science

Biography

 

B.S. in Chemical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1991

M.S. in Chemical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1993

Ph.D. in Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2000

Research and postdoctoral positions

• Institute of Chemical Physics, Russia, 1993 – 1994
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2000 – 2002

New Mexico State University

• Assistant Professor, 2002 – 2008
• Associate Professor, 2008 – 2014
• Professor, 2014 – present

Research Interests

Dr. Vasiliev's areas of expertise include solid state physics, chemical physics, and computational materials science. His research interests focus on theoretical studies of the structural, electronic, optical, magnetic, and electrochemical properties of complex functional materials. Examples of such materials include metal oxides and hydroxides, perovskites, nanostructured and amorphous materials, glasses, and composites. Dr. Vasiliev’s calculations are carried out using a wide range of computational techniques with the emphasis on ab initio methods based on density functional theory.

Publications (link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=21mj4u4AAAAJ&hl=en )