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Curriculum Vitae
Olena V. Uskova
(Elena Ouskova)
Institute of Physics,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU),
Prospect Nauki 46, Kyiv, 03028 Ukraine
Phone:
(38044) 525 0779 (office)
(38067) 783 2568 (mobile)
Fax:
(38044) 525 0830
e-mail: ouskova@iop.kiev.ua
Current and previous institutional affiliations
2005 – Present
Senior research Fellow in Department of Physics of Crystals,
Institute of Physics, NASU, pr. Nauki 46, Kyiv, 03028 Ukraine
1999 – 2005
Research Fellow in Department of Physics of Crystals,
Institute of Physics, NASU, pr. Nauki 46, Kyiv, 03028 Ukraine
1996 – 1999
Ph.D. Student (physics, molecular and liquid crystals physics) under supervision of Prof. Yu. Peznikov,
Department of Physics of Crystals, Institute of Physics, NASU, pr. Nauki 46, Kyiv, 03028 Ukraine
1991 – 1996
Student of Physics Department,
Kyiv National University named Taras Shevchenko, pr. Glushkova 2, Kyiv, 03022 Ukraine
Degrees
14 June 2007 - academic status of Senior research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
9 January 2002 - Ph.D. (Physical-mathematical science), Institute of Physics, NASU. Thesis title “Light-induced orientation of liquid crystal doped with photosensitive dye on a polymer surface”.
28 June 1996 - M.S. (Physics), Kiev National University Taras Shevchenko.
Diploma with honor – “Ellipsometric characterization of structural transformation of amorphous metal alloys ribbons based on CoxFeyNiz on temperature”.
Area of expertise
Light-induced effects in liquid crystals.
Surface phenomena in liquid crystals.
Heterogeneous systems on the liquid crystal base.
Liquid crystals colloids with nano-particles.
Optics, nonlinear optics and electro-optics of liquid crystals.
Optical recording, processing and storage of information.
Responsibilities
- carrying out an internationally recognized research program;
- supervising of undergraduate students;
- managing of some grants, research programs, and projects, in which I was involved;
- participation in preparing of proposals of research programs and projects;
- writing annual scientific reports of Department of Physics of Crystals and reports for all grants, research programs, and projects, in which I was involved.
- member of organizing committee of annual Christmas Conference on Liquid Crystals held in Institute of Physics, NASU during last six years;
- member of organizing committee of American-Korean-Ukrainian Workshop "New Horizons of Liquid Crystals: Science and Application".
Honors, awards, scholarships
2008 – The decoration of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists “Talent, inspiration, labour”.
2008-2009 – Scholarship of President of Ukraine for young scientists.
2008 – Scholarship of Mayor of Kiev city for talented and gifted youth.
2001 – winning of the first prize of young scientists contest conducted by International Liquid Crystal Society “Sodruzhestvo” of New Independent States.
Research Abroad
November 2009, «Laboratoire des Colloides, Verres et Nanomateriaux», University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France - in the frame of Joint Ukrainian-French project (NASU and CNRS) "Ferromagnetic nano-colloids of nematic liquid crystals" as Principal Investigator (PI) of the project (2008-2009).
April 2009, Complex Matter Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia – investigation of dynamic light scattering properties of LC suspension of ferromagnetic nano-particles.
September 2008, «Laboratoire des Colloides, Verres et Nanomateriaux», University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France - in the frame of Joint Ukrainian-French project (NASU and CNRS) "Ferromagnetic nano-colloids of nematic liquid crystals" as PI of the project (2008-2009).
May 2007, «Laboratoire des Colloides, Verres et Nanomateriaux» of the University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France - in the frame of NATO COLLABORATIVE LINKAGE GRANT "Colloids of ferroelectric nano-particles in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals" (2006-2008).
November 2003, Frounhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Golm, Germany - in a frame of NATO project.
October 2002, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany – investigation of dielectric properties of nematic LC doped with ferroelectric nano-particles in a frame of INTAS project No 99-00312.
September – October 2002, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy – visit of LC lab of Prof. A.Strigazzi.
May 2001, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany – investigation of dielectric properties of porous LC and salted LC in a frame of INTAS project No 99-00312.
Participation in international conferences
2009 – 13th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Erice (TP), Italy.
2009 - 10th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colmar, France.
2008 - American-Korean-Ukrainian Workshop "New Horizons of Liquid Crystals: Science and Application II", Jeonju, Korea. Oral presentation.
2008 - 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, Korea.
2007 - American-Korean-Ukrainian Workshop "New Horizons of Liquid Crystals: Science and Application", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007 – 9th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Lisbon, Portugal. Oral presentation.
2006 – 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Keystone (CO), USA.
2005 – 11th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Clearwater Beach (FL), USA.
2005 – 8th European Conference of Liquid Crystals, Sesto (Bz), Italy. Oral presentation.
2004 - 20th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2003 - 10th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Aussois (Modane), France.
2002 - 9th International Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals Conference, Crimea, Ukraine
2001 – 9th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Sorrento, Italy.
2000 - 8th International Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals Conference, Crimea, Ukraine.
1998 - Conference of Society for Information Display, Anaheim, CA, USA.
Grants, Research Programs, Projects
2008–2009 – PI of Joint Ukrainian-French Project (NASU and CNRS) "Ferromagnetic nano-colloids of nematic liquid crystals" with Laboratoire des Colloides, Universite Montpellier II, (France)
2008-2010 - Joint Ukrainian-Turkish (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey and NAS of Ukraine) "Investigation of Electro-optical Properties of Nano-particles in Liquid Crystals" with Yuzuncu Yil University, (Turkey).
2006-2008 - Project of Israel-Ukraine Collaborative Program "Development of advanced photosensitive materials for alignment of liquid crystals and their application in adaptive micro-lens array technology" with Jerusalem College of Technology-Machon Lev, (Israel)
2006-2008 - NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant "Colloids of ferroelectric nano-particles in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals"
2006-2007 - Ukrainian-Korean Research Program "Surface modification of photosensitive polymers at reorientation of liquid crystals”
2005-2006 - PI of Research Project Agreement of NAS of Ukraine for young scientists No. 2MB/231-05-13 “Dynamic Photo-Induced Orientation of Liquid Crystals for Integrated Microelements”
2003-2005 - Korean Governmental Project “Development of Advanced Bistable Cholesteric Mode for Plastic LCDs”.
2002-2003 – NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant "Photorefractivity in liquid crystals and their application for optical processing".
2002-2004 – INTAS Grant No 01-0170
2000-2002 – INTAS Grant No 99-00312
2000-2001 – CRDF grant No UP1-2121A
2000-2001 – personal INTAS Grant YSF 00-4178 for young scientists
1999 – INTAS Grant No 96-0359
Professional Societies
Society for Information Display,
International Liquid Crystal Society.
Additional
- member of organizing committee of International conference “Modern Problems of Condensed Matter Optics” devoted to Centenary of birthday of academician of NASU, Hero of Socialist Labour, Laureate of Lenin’s Premium, State Premium of Ukraine, Honoured Fellow of Science of USSR A.F.Pryhot'ko, by Institute of Physics, NASU, April 26-28, 2006, Kyiv, Ukraine;
- member of organizing committee of annual Christmas Conference on Liquid Crystals held in Institute of Physics, NASU during last six years;
- member of organizing committee of American-Korean-Ukrainian Workshop "New Horizons of Liquid Crystals: Science and Application".
Languages
Russian, Ukrainian – native, English – fluent.
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Publications
E.Ouskova, N.Aryasova, D.Fedorenko, K.Slyusarenko, and Yu.Reznikov, Asymmetry peculiarities of surface-mediated liquid crystals gratings recorded due to light-induced anchoring, submitted to MCLC (2009).
E.Ouskova, O.Buluy, C.Blanc, H.Dietsch, A.Mertelj, Enhanced magneto-optical properties of suspensions of spindle type mono-dispersed hematite nano-particles in liquid crystal, accepted to MCLC (2009).
D.Fedorenko, K.Slyusarenko, E.Ouskova, V.Reshetnyak, K-R.Ha, R.Karapinar, and Yu.Reznikov, Light-induced Gliding of Easy Orientation Axis of Dye-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystal. Phys.Rev.E 77, 061705 (2008).
D.Fedorenko, E.Ouskova, K.Slyusarenko and Yu.Reznikov, Light-induced Anchoring Evolution in Nematic Phase of Liquid Crystal Doped with Azo-dye, Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 478, 203/[959]–210/[966], (2007).
O.Buluy, Yu.Kurioz, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, I.Gerus, K.-R.Ha, S.-B.Kwon, M.Nobili, S.-K.Park, juvenated Photoalignment of Liquid Crystal on Cinnamoil-Containing Polymers, ID`07, Digest of Technical Papers, XXXVII, book 1, 691-694, (2007).
O.Buluy, A.Iljin, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, C. Blanc, M. Nobili, K. Antonova. Anchoring and gliding of easy axis of 5CB on photoaligning PVCN-F Surface. Journal of the SID 14/7, 603-610 (2006).
O.Kurochkin, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, Yu.Kurioz, O.Tereshchenko, R.Vovk, D.-H.Kim, S.-K.Park, S.-B.Kwon. Light-controlled alignment of cholesteric liquid crystals on photosensitive materials. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 453, 333–341 (2006).
D.Fedorenko, E.Ouskova, V.Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov. Evolution of light-induced anchoring in dye-doped nematics: Experiment and model. Phys.Rev.E 73(3), 031701 (2006).
D.Fedorenko, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov. Light-induced alignment of liquid crystals on dye-deposited film. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 438, 67–75 (2005).
Yu.Reznikov, O.Buluy, Yu.Kurioz, A.Iljin, E.Ouskova, K.Antonova, M.Nobili. Director gliding on photoaligning surfaces. SPIE Proceed. - IMID`05, 764-767 (2005).
O.Buluy, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, P.Litvin. Preparation and Properties of a Ferromagnetic Suspension. Ukr.Journ.Phys. 49(12A), A48-A50 (2004).
D.Fedorenko, E.Ouskova, V.Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov, L.Lucchetti, F.Simoni. Dynamic of Surface-Mediated Director Reorientation in a Cell with Dye Doped Liquid Crystal. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 421, 235-242 (2004).
O.Buchnev, E.Ouskova, V.Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov, H.Kresse, A.Grabar. Enhanced Dielectric Response of Liquid Crystal Ferroelectric Suspension. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 422, 47-55 (2004).
E.Ouskova, O.Buchnev, V.Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov, H.Kresse. Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of a nematic liquid crystal doped with ferroelectric nano-particles of Sn2P2S6. Liq.Cryst. 30(10), 1235–1239 (2003).
V.Boychuk, E.Ouskova, V.Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov. Electrically-driven Light-induced Control of Liquid Crystal in a Cell with Fullerene-containing Layer. Proceeding of SPIE 5257, 58-64 (2003).
O.Buluy, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, A.Glushchenko, J.West, V.Reshetnyak. “Magnetically Induced Alignment of FNS”. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 252, 159-161 (2002).
O.Buluy, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, V.Reshetnyak, A.Glushchenko, John West. Magnetically Controlled Anchoring of Ferro-Nematic Suspension. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 375, 81-87 (2002).
E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, B.Snopok, A.Tereshchenko. Light-Induced Anchoring and Transient Memory-Effect in Doped 5CB. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 375, 97-105 (2002).
Oriano Francescangeli, Liana Lucchetti, Francesco F. Simoni, Sergei Slussarenko, E. Ouskova, Yuri A. Reznikov, S. Shiyanovskii, and John L. West. Light-induced anchoring and reorientation effects in dye-doped liquid crystals. Proc. SPIE 4799, 83 (2002).
E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, S.V.Shiyanovskii, L.Su, J.L.West, O.V.Kuksenok, O.Francescangeli, and F.Simoni. Photo-orientation of Liquid Crystals Due to Light-induced Desorption and Adsorption of Dye Molecules on Analigning Surface. Phys.Rev.E 64, 051709 (2001).
E.Ouskova, A.Iljin, Yu.Reznikov. Light-induced Anchoring of Dye Doped Liquid Crystal on ITO and Polyvinyl-Cinnamate Aligning Surfaces. Proceeding of SPIE 4418, 65-71 (2001).
D.Fedorenko, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, L.Su, S.Shiyanovskii, O.Kuksenok, J.West, O.Francescangeli, F.Simoni. Hidden Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals in Isotropic Phase. Phys.Rev.E 63, 021701-021705 (2001).
D.Fedorenko, E.Ouskova, Yu.Reznikov, V.Reshetnyak, S.Shiyanovskii, O.Francescangeli, F.Simoni. Properties of Bulk-mediated Photoalignment of Doped Liquid Crystal. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 359, 137-145 (2001).
D.Andrienko, D.Fedorenko, O.Uskova, V.Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov, S.Slussarenko, D.Voloshchenko, O.Lavrentovich. Light-induced Alignment and Reorientation Effects in Liquid Crystals Doped with Azo-dyes. Ukr.Jorn.Fiz. 44(1-2), 149-157 (1999).
D.Andrienko, Yu.Reznikov, D.Fedorenko, O.Uskova. Light-induced Spatially Modulated Orientation of Liquid Crystal. Ukr.Jorn.Fiz. 43(4), 459-462 (1998).
D.Andrienko, O.Francescangeli, E.Ouskova, F.Simoni, S.Slussarenko, Yu.Reznikov. Laser Beam Modulation Freezing on a Liquid Crystal Surface. Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst. 320, 69-76 (1998).
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