My basic scientific interests are connected with the hydrogen bond studies and structure - properties relationships. I have started my research at Tyumen University (USSR). My Master thesis was concerned with electro optic characteristics of anilines studied by IR spectroscopy based on determination of integrated intensities of stretching N-H bands. In 1990/1991 during my scientific stay at Leningrad State University I studied interferrometric methods. In four years period 1993-1997 I performed my Ph.D. studies at Wroclaw University (Poland). I studied there the integrated intensities of OH stretching vibrations in intermolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bonds. I also use the NMR and UV-Vis techniques as well as fluorescent methods. I perform quantum mechanical calculations. I have the experience in chemical synthesis of fluorescent dyes, photo chromic Schiff bases and Mannich bases.

            In 1999 – I had 3- months scientific stay in Antwerp University (Belgium) in the group of Prof. B.J. vander Veken, where I carried out studies of IR cry spectroscopy. In 1999/2000 – 1 year scientific stay in Roskilde University (Denmark) in the group of Prof. P.E. Hansen, where I investigated isotope effect in Schiff bases by NMR spectroscopy. In 2006-2010 – 14 - months scientific stays in Leuven Catholic University (Belgium), where I collaborated with professors N. Boens, W. M. DeBorggrave and W.Dehaen. I made synthesis of BODIPY and investigated exited state (steady state and time resolved measurements) of these compounds.

            Since October 2009 I have got a position of professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of Wrocław University (Poland). I regularly supervise Ph.D. (4 persons) and Master students (25 persons).

Index Hirsch “h” = 23 (according to Web of Science); 1450 citations, Sum of Times Cited without self-citations 1100.

The main goal of my investigations is the hydrogen bond noteworthy for some physicochemical aspects: proton and electron transfer and related processes; tautomeric equilibrium describing state of a molecule; the steric effect impact on intermolecular hydrogen bonding; extra short OHN hydrogen bonds; influence of the environment on the potential of proton transfer, calculated by local and continuous model interactions; photophysical processes in strong chromophore (BODIPY), as well as synthesis. To solve these tasks I have used the following methods: IR, IINS, Raman, NMR, X-ray, UV and Fluorescence spectroscopy as well as quantum-mechanical calculations.

Dr. Wei Zhao is a scientist in the field of surface science, expertise in XPS, STM and calorimetry. He earned his Ph.D. in 2013 in Physical Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. After that, he worked at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2014 to 2015and has worked in the department of chemistry at University of Washington as research associate since 2015. His doctoral studies on functionalization of graphene and post-doctoral work on catalytic surface reactions produced highly regarded journal articles in flagship publications of the discipline, and have amassed more than 400 citations (Google scholar). His excellent work on surface science appears in Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS catalysis, Chemical Communications, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and other prominent journals. His current work is focusing on the energies of adsorbed catalytic intermediates on transition metal and oxide surfaces and other basic experimental research concerning environmental and energy-related.

Energies of adsorbed catalytic intermediates on transition metal and oxide surfaces by calorimetry

Supramolecular self-assembly at solid surfaces and on-surface coupling reactions

 Chemistry functionalization of graphene and tuning the electronic properties

Dr. Karthick Thangavel is working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher (Dr.D.S.Kothari Fellow) in Department of Physics, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India. His current research is mainly focusing on the vibrational spectroscopic signatures and theoretical spatial conformations of anti-cancer drugs, pharmaceutical co-crystals, and liquid crystals. He interested in the study of the intramolecular interactions and the interactions of the molecule with protein complexes through combined experimental studies and theoretical computations. He has completed his Ph.D. in Physics from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India. He has nine years of teaching and seven years of research experience in the above-mentioned field of interest. He has published 20 publications in reputed peer-reviewed journals. He has attended many international conferences in India and as well as in aboard as oral and invited speaker. He is a Life Time member of Indian Society for Technical Education since August 2013. He is acting as an Editorial board member of EC Toxicology and Pharmacology Journal since January 2017. He has been a peer reviewer in reputed journals like Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (Elsevier) and JSciMed Central- JSM Chemistry.  

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical co-crystals, liquid crystals, virtual screening, quantum chemical computations

Dr. Zhang received his PhD in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry at New York University in 2005. After 3 years in NYU Langone Medical Center as a postdoctoral fellow and an assistant research scientist, he joined Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2016, he moved back to China and joined Henan University of Science and Technology as a Distinguished Professor. 

Dr. Zhang’s main research focusis in computational study of biomolecules, with special emphasis on (1) developing novel computational methods for accurate and efficient study of biological systems, (2) incorporating quantum mechanics to study protein structure, dynamics and protein-ligand interaction, and (3) developing quantum-based polarized protein force field for protein dynamics simulation.

His secondary research is to explore the anti-obesity benefits of tropical fruits, especially parts that are usually thrown away after consuming the flesh. These parts that are often regarded as waste are in fact treasures and contain much goodness in the form of phytochemicals which could possibly be an alternative therapy for obesityand its associated metabolic diseases. With modern techniques of cellular and molecular biology including cell culture, PCR, Gel shift, RNA and DNA technology in addition to theoretical and computational chemistry, the effect of the extracts on the modulation of adipogenesis and lipodystrophy, and molecular mechanism of action can be addressed. 

Dr. Oday A. Al-Owaedi oday alowaedi successfully completed PhD studies recently, under the supervision of Professor Colin J. Lambert, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK). His PhD studies were concerned with the theory of electronic and thermoelectric properties of nano and molecular quantum devices, and have given his experience in the use of different theoretical methods such as Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Electronics Methods, and sophisticated calculation programs such as GOLLUM, SIESTA and Gaussian, to address questions in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. In addition he familiar with technical computing languages (MATLAB and FORTRAN). His research work has been published in 8 peer reviewed articles in high quality international journals (Nature Commun., JACS, Inorg. Chem., Chem. Eur. J., Organometallics).

His PhD, MSc and BSc studies have given a great opportunity to cooperate and communicate with diverse academic teams drawn from theoretical and experimental groups from different countries and universities around the world. These collaborations required interaction and close cooperation with researchers at all career stages, from experienced full professors, to PhD and undergraduate students with different levels of background in chemistry and physics. 

Nanoelectronics, single-molecule electronics, quantum transport, carbon nanotubes, graphene, materials, density functional theory, quantum scattering theory, molecular dynamics, Laser Physics, Silicon nanostructure techniques.

Dr. P.Deepa research interest is Molecular Quantum Mechanics and Computational Biophysics. Her research carrier started during her M. Sc degree on the topic “DFT studies on Molecular properties of 4-pyrone”, further she acquired I ^st rank (Gold medal) in her Master degree. Further she joined for M. Phil and Ph.d degree under Prof. P. Kolandaivel, Department of Physics, Bharathiar University.  Her M.Phil thesis title “Studies on Tautomeric Forms of Guanine- Cytosine Base pairs of Nucleic acids- A Density Functional Theory Approach “ She was awarded Ph.D degree for her thesis on Interaction studies of Anticancer Drugs and Metal ions with DNA base pairs”. She has published several papers in reputed international journals with good citation and h-index. Further she published one Book Chapter (Characteristics of a σ-hole and the Nature of a Halogen Bond, Halogen Bonding II ( Impacts on Materials Chemistry and Life Sciences), Top Curr Chem (Book Chapter). During her Ph.D. programme she was awarded Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, INDIA.

Further she worked as a post doctoral fellow under the topic “In silico Drug design and Halogen Bonding” at Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, v.v.i. Czech Republic under Prof.Pavel Hobza Group. She gained knowledge in the theoretical quantum chemical methods especially in C, C++ language, ab initio, DFT methods, Molecular Docking, Protein-ligand Interactions, MD simulations. She worked as a Temporary assistant Professor in Department of Physics, Manaonmaniam Sundaranar University. Subsequently she was awarded the young scientist project entitled on “Understanding the Potency of Inhibitors toward CK2 from Quantum Mechanics / Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) study” under  the scheme “Start Up Research Grant (Young Scientist)” by DST-SERB in the broad area of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at a total cost of Rs. 2892000/-. Now she is working as a Young Scientist in the Manaonmaniam Sundaranar UniversityDepartment of Physics. She has qualified TNSET (Tamilnadu State Eligibility Test for Lectureship) she was a critical reviewer for few journals and reviewed more than 25  international papers

Drug design is a multidisciplinary research field covering several aspects of chemistry and biology together with strong and fruitful interfaces with physics is the focus of our research.

The exploration on molecular structure, structural properties and interactions of various significant intercalators (drug molecules) with DNA base pairs essential for drug design are one among our research activity.

Hydrogen bond studies -We have analysed the behavior of hydrogen bonds,  based on bond length, interaction energy, localized molecular orbital energy decomposition analysis, potential energy surface scan, electron density, laplacian of electron density and stabilization energies.

I was born in Budapest, Hungary on 4 January. I have been mostly in chemical research that I started at the Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Budapest, then in 1961 I joined the research network of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and I have been associated ever since with that organization. My field of specialization is molecular spectroscopy.

I have a Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Budapest (1965), a D.Sc.degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1982), and posses "venia legendi" as a habilitated, titular professor at the Technical University of Budapest (1995).

I held several grants and stipends enabling me to do research and teaching abroad. Thus I visited in Great Britain the University College of Wales,Aberystwyth and the University of Reading in the years 1964-65. In 1972-73 I had a Dozentenstipendium for 14 months from the German Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for work at the University of Kiel, Germany , later I was reactivated for three months in 1982 as Humboldt-Fellow at the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. In 1985 I had a visiting scientist's position at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada,Ottawa, for 3 months and a state professorship in France (granted by the French Ministry of Education) at Villeneuve d'Ascq (Universite de Lille), for three months, in 1986. In 1990 I spent three months in Holland, at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Laboratory of Molecular and Laser Physics, with the support of the Dutch Science Foundation. Between November 1990 and November 1991I was appointed Visiting Research Scientist at the Chemistry Department,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. I was also invited to the University of Waterloo, Department of Chemistry, Canada to do spectroscopic research in the Centre for Molecular Beams and Laser Chemistry in the Summer of 1992 and 1993,with the support of the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

 I have spent a year as guest research professor of the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. In 1996 I spent two month as W.F. James Professor of Pure and Applied Science at the St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Since 1980 I was active in the field of laser induced chemistry and the emission spectroscopic studies of laser generated plasmas. This activity brought me into close cooperation with the group of Professor Christian Parriger at the University of Tennessee. We have published a number of common papers in this field. Another of my special field has been the theory and spectroscopy of carbon clusters, especially fullerenes.

In 2006 I retired but remained active at my former Institute, the Central Research Institute of Chemistry as science advisor emeritus. Since 3 years I am associated with the Research Center of Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, as emeritus science advisor.

My abbreviated CV has been published by several international biographical organs, first in 1981 in the Whos's Who in the World, 5th edition, 1980-81, Marquis Whos's Who Inc.,Chicago, USA, then in several other published works, e.g. in the UK.

Raman Spectroscopy,Molecular Quantum Mechanics,Physical Chemostry,Laser

I received my Ph. D. in Biophysics from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in 2010. After that I worked at the Center for High Temperature Studies, Foundry Research Institute, Krakow as postdoctoral researcher.

Since 2013 I have been working in Department of Physics at University of Agriculture in Krakow, firstly as a research assistant and then as an Assistant Professor

My research interests are mainly focused on water investigations in dry biological systems, especially in extremophilic organisms as lichenized Antarctic fungi. The analysis of bound water fractions at different steps of rehydration process is important to understand the molecular mechanisms of desiccation and frost resistance and is performed using such methods as: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and relaxometry, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, sorption isotherm and hydration kinetics.

The scientific contributions of Dr. Christian Parigger focus on fundamental and applied spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, ultrafast phenomena, ultrasensitive diagnostics, lasers, combustion and plasma Physics, optical diagnostics, biomedical applications, and in general, atomic and molecular and optical (AMO) Physics. His Mag. rer. nat. degree shows work on optical bistability at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, with guidance by Dr. Peter Zoller. The PhD degree studies are on the subject of polarization spectroscopy and magnetically induced switching at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, with guidance by Drs. Wes Sandle and Rob Ballagh. He also holds the Dr. rer. nat. degree in Physics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Since 1987, his work encompasses experimental, theoretical and computational research together with teaching, service, and outreach at the Center for Laser Applications at The University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA.

Research interest in experimental and theoretical physics, particularly electromagnetic interactions, quantum optics, non-linear optics, atomic and molecular physics; experience with argon-ion and narrow-line dye lasers, high vacuum physics, digital electronics, sub-picosecond laser systems, optical pico-second amplifiers, nano-second pulsed excimer and dye lasers, time-resolved spectroscopy, high power phenomena, laser induced plasma physics, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, laser induced fluorescence thermometer, laser fluorescence velocimeter, optical bistability, laser interaction with droplet fields, optical breakdown, image analysis, ultrafast photography, photon counting; combustion diagnostics; spectroscopic temperature measurements using atomic lines and molecular spectra.

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences. 

Bionanotech

Jian-Min Yuan is a professor of Department of Physics at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.He received his Ph. D. degree from University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Florida and an Instructor at University of Rochester.  He has been at Drexel since 1978.  He was elected a fellow of American Physical Society in 1998.  He was an NWO Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht and over the years has been a visitor for research collaboration at University of Kansas, University of New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania, and Institute of Theoretical.Atomic and Molecular Physics at Harvard University, University of Kaiserslautern, National Taiwan University, National Chiao Tung University, National Central University, National Chi-Nan University, University of Science and Technology of China, Lanzhou University. He was an Honorary Professor and gave lecture series at Hunan Normal University and Xiangtan Normal University.  For more than 20 years he has visited and collaborated with staffs at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences and Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica.He was a Co-organizer of several International Conferences and Workshops and Co-editor of a monograph: Quantum Nonintegrability, 'Directions in Chaos', Volume IV (World Scientific, Singapore, 1992) as well as Quantum Dynamics of Chaotic Systems (Gordon  and Breach, 1993). With Huan-Xiang Zhou has has edited “Biophysics and Biochemistry of Protein Aggregation” to be published by World Scientific later this year. 

Current interests in Biophysics, particularly in protein aggregation related to neurodegenerative diseases, effects of molecular crowding on protein reactions and properties; cellular signaling pathways related to cancers and diabetes; systems biology and bio-networks. I have also worked on laser-molecular interactions, molecular reaction dynamics, nonlinear dynamics,chaos and quantum chaos. 

Professor A.J. Aller received his Master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Valladolid. In 1981 he finished his PhD thesis under the direction of Professor Jose Luis Bernal and received his degree with the greatest honors from the University of Valladolid. After a period of four years working in the P/M industry, in 1984 he joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Area of Analytical Chemistry) of the University of León as an assistant professor. Later in 1987 he became Lecturer in analytical chemistry in the same Department, while in 2003 he became Professor in analytical chemistry in the Department Applied Chemistry and Physics in the University of León. In 1985 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and next became head of the atomic absorption spectroscopy group at the University of León. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals, three books and 8 book chapters. He is a member of the Spanish Society for Analytical Chemistry, Society for Applied Spectroscopy and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also a member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (EEUU) and Grupo Espectroquímico de la Real Sociedad Española de Química.

Most of his research focuses on the development of analytical spectroscopies. One of his primary interests is in the nature of interference mechanisms and their consequences in ETAAS applications. One of the most exciting findings from his work on atomization processes has been its impact on theoretically involved fundamental aspects.

Other research field is focused on the use of bacterial cells as analytical tools replacing mono-elemental detection by a multi-detection system, particularly Fourier transform infrared spectrometry.

Professor Aller is also heading a research group dealing with the spectroscopic characterization of natural and synthetic nanoparticles. Main techniques for this research include atomic spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, Raman spectroscopy, FT-IR spectroscopy and luminescent techniques.

Dr. Sreenivasulu Gollapudi is a research scientist at Virginia Tech. I received myMaster’s in 2002 and PhD in 2010 from Indian Institute of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. I worked at defense metallurgical research laboratory India from 2002 to 2004. Before joined at Virginia Tech in 2015, I conducted my postdoc research at Oakland University, Michigan. His research interests include Dielectric, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Piezomagnetic materials and Magnetoelectric composites (Bulk, thick and thin films). These materials can be used in ultrasensitive multiferroic magnetic field sensors, memory devices, and high frequency tunable devices. I have been significantly contributed to the field of magnetoelectric composites through 55 high quality research papers (675 citations and h-index: 16, i10 index: 23; report from scholar.google.com) in reputed peer reviewed journals(APL-11, JAP-9, PRB-4…).

I am an editorial board member for a Material Science and Engineering with Advanced Research journal at Verizona Publisher. I am also a critical reviewer for about 20 different journals and reviewed more than 60 peer reviewed research articles. I was a successful reviewer from last 5 years (>95%), my review recommendations and feedback was very much helpful to the editorial office in final decision. Several editorial offices provided appreciation certificates in improving the quality of their journals.

Magnetoelectric composites for picotesla magnetic field sensors and energy harvesting. Magnetodielectrics for high frequency tunable miniature antennas. Ferroelectric, ferromagnetic materials for memory and data storage devices. Tunable dielectrics, inductors and MLCCs. Magnetoelectric core-shell nanoparticles and nanowires for medical applications. Structure and property correlations.

Dr. Shabbir Muhammad received his Ph.D. degree with distinction (Nomination for National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China) from Northeast Normal University, China through a joint scholarship of MOE of Pakistan and CSC of China. He is presently an assistant professor in King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. His major academic milestones include the award of JSPS Fellowship, Global COE (Center of excellence) Fellowship, Young Researcher Award ISTCP-VII from Osaka University, Japan and IBM-Lowdin 2013 Award from university of Florida USA. His research interests include study of advanced functional materials and carbon nanomaterials.

We are working in the field of advanced functional materials designing. Over the past several years, we have used first principles calculations and density functional theory methods to explore the fundamental structure property relationship among different types of materials including organic and organic-inorganic hybrid materials and carbon nanomaterials (graphenes, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes). Among different electronic properties of molecules, we are calculating optical properties, polarizability, first hyperpolarizability (Nonlinear polarizability), second hyperpolarizability (a signature of two photon absorption), diradical character and extensive spectroscopic (UV-Visible, IR, Raman and emission) characterization of novel compounds

Dr. Mohd. Shkir was born in Pilibhit, India 1982. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics,from M.J.P. Rohilkhand University (MJPRU), Bareilly, India. He received his doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) from Jamia Millia Islamia (a central university), GOI. He did is postdoctoral (PDF) research from Crystal Growth Lab (CGL), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid(UAM), Madrid, Spain in the laboratory of Prof. E. Diegues, investigating "System For Manufacturing Solar Cells For Multilayer And Procedure For Making These" and have patent on it. He worked in University of Delhi (DU) and Manav Rachna College of engineering (MRCE) as an Assistant Professor of Physics. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in Physics, at King Khalid University, Abha, KSA. Dr. Shkir has published over 95 research papers in high impact national and international journals with over 1000 citations and also published one patent [ES2527976 (A1) ― 2015-02-02].

My scientific interest focused on nonlinear optics, nanotechnology and thin film fabrications for Optoelectronic device applications which combines experimental and theoretical techniques.

Fabrication of new systems and devices for future applications. I am working on determination Of various electro-optical properties using computational techniques. I am currently working on nano synthesis of different kind of materials for biomedical, Optoelectronic and radiation detection applications.

Ferdi Akman obtained his PhD from Atatürk University in Turkey, while working in Bingöl University as a research assistant. Since 2013 he has been working as a Assistant Professor in Bingöl University. Professor Akman’s research interest is focused on photon interaction with matter, X-ray fluorescence, and spectroscopy.

X-ray fluorescence; cross sections; Atomic and Molecular Physics; Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence; Wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence; Spectroscopy