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Igor Popov

PhD in physical sciences

Research Associate Professor

Department of Materials Science

Telephone: +381 63 7527702

E-Mail:

popov@ipb.ac.rs
popov@imsi.rs

Links:

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2030-3530

ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Igor_Popov

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2030-3530

Research area

Structural, electronic, magnetic and transport properties of graphene and 2D materials, nanotubes, nanowires, multiferroics, topological insulators, etc.

Skills

Density functional theory (DFT), semiempirical method (density functional-based tight binding method – DFTB), molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, group symmetry analysis, etc. Development of codes in C, C++, python. Uses scientific software for atomistic simulations including Siesta, DFTB+, ASE, Abinit, Smeagol, etc.

  • Biography
  • Projects
  • Selected publications

1.Work experience:

  • 2016 – present Associate research professor at the Institute of Physics Belgrade and the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research.
  • 2016 – present associate research scientist at the Texas A&M University in Doha, Qatar.
  • 2014 – 2015 Web development at an IT company
  • 2009 – 2013 Postdoctoral position at the School of Physics and CRANN Institute, Trinity College Dublin
  • 2008 – 2009 Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, TU Dresden

2.Education:

  • 2004 – 2008 PhD studies at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany under supervision of Gotthard Seifert. Thesis:”Molybdenum Chalcohalide and Sulfide Nanowires as New Building Blocks of  Electromechanical Nanodevices”.

Mark: Summa Cum Laude

  • 1996 – 2003 Sc. degree at the Department of theoretical and experimental physics, Faculty of physics, Belgrade University. Thesis:”Realization of Characteristic Quantum Circuits on Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices”. GPA: 9.25 out of 10
  • 1992-1996 High school of mathematics in Belgrade

3.Awards and certificates:

  • Professor-Schwabe-Preis of Dresden University of Technology “for outstanding achievements in preparing his thesis on the topic Molybdenum chalcogenide nanowires as building blocks of nanodevices”
  • SFI grant at CRANN, Trinity College Dublin
  • DFG grants for PhD scholarshi

4.Other professional activities

Editorial and Reviewer’s activity (journals, books, projects):

  • Reviewer in many journals including Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Nanotechnology, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Carbon, etc.

Memberships

  • Physics society of Serbia

Current: 

  • Participant of the national project number OI 171005 (principal investigator Radoš Gajić)
  • Principle investigator of the bilateral Serbia-German project titled Engineering electronic properties of thin-films of transition metal dichalcogenides for applications in solar cells – a combined theoretical-experimental approach
  • Principal investigator of the bilateral Serbian-France project titled MXene nanostructures for clean energy storage devices.
  • Participant of the project funded by Qatar National Research Fund, cycle eleven, (QNRF) the grant number NPRP11S-1126-170033, principle investigator Milivoj Belić
  1. Carbon 162, 497 (2020), Superior hardness and stiffness of diamond nanoparticles
  2. Surf. Sci. 458, 446 (2018), Reducing sheet resistance of self-assembled transparent graphene films by defect patching and doping with UV / ozone treatment
  3. Nanoscale 9, 19337 (2017), Fortune teller fermions in two-dimensional materials
  4. 28, 495706 (2017), Designing topological defects in 2D materials using scanning probe microscopy and a self-healing mechanism: a density functional based MD study
  5. Rev. B 90, 035418 (2014), Proximity-induced topological state in graphene
  6. Rev. Lett. 108, 156802 (2012), Designing electrical contacts to MoS2 monolayers: a computational study
  7. Rev. Lett. 108, 107205 (2012), Magnetism and antiferroelectricity in MgB6
  8. Phys. Chem. C 115, 24586 (2011), New route for stabilization of 1T-WS2 and MoS2 phases
  9. Nano Lett. 8, 4093 (2008), Electromechanical switch based on Mo6S6 nanowires
  10. Rev. Lett. 99, 085503 (2007), Unique structural and transport properties of molybdenum chalcohalide nanowires
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