Olexandr K. Isayev


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Edu­ca­tional Background

2008

Ph. D.
Jack­son State Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Chem­istry, USA

2001 – 2002

M.S. with the High­est Honor (Red Diploma)
Dne­propetro­vsk National Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Chem­istry, Ukraine

1997 – 2001

B.Sc. with the High­est Honor
Dne­propetro­vsk National Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Chem­istry, Ukraine

Pro­fes­sional Experience

2009 – present

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

Sum­mer 2006

Vis­it­ing Research Fel­low
Equipe de Chimie et Biochimie Théoriques, Uni­ver­sité Henri Poin­caré, Nancy, France

2004

Teach­ing Assis­tant
Depart­ment of Chem­istry, Jack­son State University

Sum­mer 2002

Sum­mer Intern­ship
Com­pu­ta­tional Cen­ter for Mol­e­c­u­lar Struc­ture and Inter­ac­tions, Jack­son State University

2000 – 2002

Research Asso­ciate
Dne­propetro­vsk National Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Chem­istry, Ukraine

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 & 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, TCLMPI.
  • Libraries: BLAS, ATLAS, LAPACK, MKLACML.
  • 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.

Misc

  • Lan­guages: Eng­lish – flu­ent, Russ­ian and Ukrainian – native
  • Cit­i­zen­ship: Ukraine
  • Fam­ily Sta­tus: Mar­ried
  • Ref­er­ences: Avail­able upon request
  • hobby: Pho­tog­ra­phy, graphic and web design, info­graph­ics, typog­ra­phy, hik­ing, rafting