Current Appointment

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Middle Tennessee State University (2017)

Past Appointments

2015-2017 Simons Collaboration Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

2014 - 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, Ames Laboratory

2011 - 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Louisiana State University

2006 - 2011 Research Assistant, NHMFL and Florida State University

Education

2011 Ph. D. in Physics, Florida State University

Thesis: Unconventional transport around metal-insulator transitions.

Advisor: Prof. Vladimir Dobrosavljevic

2005 M.Sc. Minnesota State University, Mankato

2003 B.Sc. in Physics (summa cum laude), Drohobych State Ivan Franko University, Ukraine

Awards and Honors

• 2020-2025 NSF CAREER Award

• 2019-2023 NSF OAC grant

• 2018, 2020 ORNL CNMS User proposal grant

• 2018 MTSU FRCAC grant

• 2019, 2020 NSF XSEDE grant

• 2018-2020 KITP Scholar award (2017)

• Dirac-Hellman Award in Theoretical Physics, awarded by Physics Department of Florida State University (2011)

• Second Place Award, Theory Division Poster Session, International School & Symposium on Multifunctional Molecule-based Materials, Argonne National Laboratory (2011)

• Distinguished Thesis Award, Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (2005)

• Summa cum laude completion of undergraduate studies, Drohobych State Ivan Franko University, Ukraine (2003)

• Ukrainian Government Stipend for excellence in undergraduate study (1997-2003)

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