Olexandr Isayev

 

Current appointment:

Department of Chemsitry,
Case Western Reserve University
Millis Science Center,10900 Euclid Ave,
Cleveland, OH 44109


 

Educational Background

2008
Ph. D.
Jackson State University, Department of Chemistry, USA
2002
M.S. with the Highest Honor (summa cum laude)
Dnepropetrovsk National University, Department of Chemistry, Ukraine


 

Professional Experience

2009–
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH
2002–2008
Graduate Research Assistant
Chemical Materials and Computational Modleing (CMCM) Project, Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions, Jackson State University
2003–2008
System Administrator
Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions, Jackson State University
2006
Visiting Research Fellow
Equipe de Chimie et Biochimie Théoriques, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France
2004
Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University


 

Awards & Honors

  • IBM-Lowdin Memorial Fellowship 49th Sanibel Symposium; 2009
  • NBCR Summer Institute Scholarship UCSD, San Diego, CA; 2008
  • 2nd Best Professional Oral Presentation. 70th Annual Meeting, Mississippi Academy of Sciences; 2006
  • Honor for Outstanding Academic Leadership. Jackson State University; 2003
  • Special Recognition Award. 10th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry; Jackson, 2001
  • Prize Winner of Ukrainian Chemical Olympiad for Students. Kharkov, Ukraine, 2001
  • Award of Ministry of Education (Ukraine). Competition for Research Project of Young Scientists; Kiev, 1997


 

Research & Professional Activities


 

Skills

Computational Chemistry & Molecular Modeling

  • Wavefunction based codes: Gaussian, GAMESS, NWChem, ACES II, AIM2000.
  • Plane?waves & hybrid codes: CPMD (including GROMOS QM/MM), Quantum Espresso, CP2K Materials Studio.
  • Molecular modeling: NAMD, AMBER, GROMACS, Sybyl


 

IT & High Performance Computing (HPC)

  • Linux cluster design, construction, optimization and maintenance.
  • System administration under Windows 2000/XP/2003 and Linux environment.
  • Basic C/C++, Shell scripting, TCL, MPI.
  • Libraries: BLAS, ATLAS, LAPACK, MKL, ACML.
  • Math IDE: MATLAB, Origin, MathCAD.


 

Graphic & Design

  • Chemical Viz: VMD, gOpenMol, Molekel, Molden, Pymol, GaussView, ChemOffice, etc.
  • Scientific Viz: AVS/Express, POVRay, MATLAB.
  • Graphic/Design workflow: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw.
  • Web: (x)HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, MySQL, file, web and mail servers.
  • Publishing/Typography: Adobe InDesign, Post Script, Acrobat.