Oleksiy L. Kapitanchuk (PhD) is a Senior Researcher at the Department for Theory of Quantum Processes in Nanosystems of the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyiv), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Born in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1976, received his B.Sc. (hons) and M.Sc. (hons) diplomas from the Department of Physics of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. He obtained a post-graduate degree (candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, equivalent to a PhD) in Theoretical Physics from the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, NAS of Ukraine in 2004. Afterwards, he spent the next few years doing his postdoctoral research at CEA-Saclay (Laboratory of Orgаnic Nanostructures & Semiconductors, Paris, France) and Nanyang Technological University (School of Materials Science & Engineering, Singapore); later he was a visiting researcher at Linköping University (Sweden).
The research of Oleksiy Kapitanchuk is focused on the quantum mechanics of nanostructures, the molecular kinetics, the dynamics of quantum systems in condensed phase environment, namely:
• quantum chemical study of structural and (opto)electronic properties of novel organic nanostructures (single molecules, self-assembled arrays, molecular and liquid crystals etc.), non covalent interactions, pi-stacking, excited and ionized states, absorption and emission spectra etc;
• stochastic processes, fluctuation phenomena, cooperativity and competitiveness of nonstationary states in open quantum systems;
• ab initio modeling of the morphology of self-assembled organic monolayers;
• conductance mechanisms, charge-transfer and energy-transfer processes in organic electronic materials.