Eugene KOTOMIN

Professor, Dr.habil.phys. Eugene KOTOMIN Head of  Department for Theoretical Physics and Computer Modelling, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, 8 Kengaraga str., LV-1063 Riga, Latvia Phone: +371 6718 7480 Fax: +371 6711 2583 E-mail: kotomin@latnet.lv http://teor.cfi.lu.lv/index.php?slab=staff

Born: September 20, 1949, Vilnius, Lithuania

Total citations: 7100
Citation H-index: 43
Number of papers in refereed journals: 470
Number of communications/poster at scientific meetings: 470
Number of books and book chapters - 17, 12 review articles
Number of invited talks at International Conferences: 45

Main interest

• Theoretical materials science based on first principles calculations
• Theory of radiation-induced effects and defects in solids, kinetics of reactions with a focus on
• Self-organisation phenomena in diffusion-controlled reactions
• Quantum chemistry of defective solids and surfaces

Current research activities are focused on:

• Functional materials and devices for new energy applications including solid oxide fuel cells, Li batteries, sensors
• Nanomaterials and confinement effects in advanced perovskites
• Defects and surface-related processes in advanced complex oxides and nitrides,
• Physics and chemistry of actinides and nuclear fuels, new materials for fusion and fission reactors
• Radiation physics and chemistry, self-organisation in non-equilibrium systems

Education (degrees, dates, universities)

• 1966-1971 B.S.+M.S. degrees: Dept. of Physics, Latvian State University, 19 Rainis blvd., Riga LV-1058, Latvia
• 1973-1974 Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Quantum Chemistry, Leningrad University. Advisor: Prof. R.A. Evarestov
• 1975 Ph D degree: Institute of Physics, The Latvian Academy of Sciences. Advisor: Prof. I. Tale
  Title of Thesis: "Role of electron tunnelling in radiation- induced defect accumulation and in diffusion-controlled reactions of defects"
• 1988 Dr Sc. (Soviet Doctor of Sciences) degree in Solid State Physics.
  Title of Thesis: "Theory of defect accumulation and recombination in ionic crystals controlled by electron tunnelling".
• 1992 Dr.habil.Phys., University of Latvia, Riga

Career/Employment (employers, positions and dates)

• 1971-1974 Engineer and Research Associate, Institute of Solid State Physics, Latvian State University, 8 Kengaraga Str., LV-1063, Riga, Latvia
• 1975-1979 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Semiconductor Physics, Latvian State University, Riga
• 1980-1985 Scientist and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Solid State Physics
• 1986 Senior Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry, Turin University, Italy. Advisor: Prof. C.Pisani
• 1987 Associate Professor, Dept. of Semiconductor Physics, Latvian State University
• 1987-1991, a lecturer in general physics, University of Latvia, Riga
• 1988-present Leading Research Scientist and head of the theoretical laboratory at the Institute of Solid State Physics attached to the University of Latvia, Riga
• 1995-Visiting Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 1998-DFG Professor, Osnabrueck University,Germany
• 2000- DAAD Professor, Osnabrueck University,Germany
• 2001-2005- Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
• 2005-2007- Visiting Professor, EC Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 1996-2000 Full Professor of the University of Latvia
• 2008-2012- Visiting Professor, Astana University, Kazakhstan

Member of the organising committees of the following International conferences:

• Quantum Chemistry of Solids; Riga 1985, 1990,
• Radiation Effects in Insulators (REI): since 1995 up to now (9 meetings)
• European Materials Research Society Meeting, Strasbourg, 1993, 1994, 1995
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Defects and Surface-Induced Effects in Advanced Perovskites, Riga, 1999
• co-director of the NATO schools on computational chemistry, Italy, September 2001 and Radiation Physics, Erice, Italy, July 2004

  Research support and agency

• 1992 International Science Foundation (ISF) grant
• 1993, 1994,1997 ISF travel grants for conferences
• 1994-96 Two-year ISF research grant
• 1994-96 European Community Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) Network Grant on Polarons and Bipolarons in New Materials
• 1994-96 European Community HCM Network Grant on Large Scale Computer Simulations of Solids
• 1996-1998 Volkswagen research grant Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
• 1999-2000 NATO research grant for senior visitors (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• 1999-2000 British-Latvian UK Royal Society Joint grant (University College London)
• 1999-2000 Swedish-Latvian Joint research grant with Uppsala University
• 2004-2006 NSF collaborative grant at Northwestern University, USA
• 2008-2011 EC FP7 project F-Bridge on development of new generation of nuclear fuels
• 2009-2011 EC FP7 project NASA-OTM on innovation of new ceramic permeation membranes
• 2006-2010 3 service contracts with the EC JRC Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2012-2015 EC COST project CM1104 on chemistry of oxides of reducible oxides 2014-2018 EC FP7 project GREEN-CC on ceramic membranes for gas separation

• 2011 Full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences
• 2009 Corresponding member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences
• 1997 F. Cander’s prize in Physics from Latvian Academy of Sciences
• Invited expert for research project evaluations at the US Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF) and PNNL laboratory: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015

Books

1. Evarestov R.A., Kotomin E.A., Ermoshkin A.N. Molecular models of point defects in wide-gap solids. -Riga: Zinatne, 1983. -287 p.

2. Kantorovich L.N., Kotomin E.A., Kuzovkov V.N., Tale I.A., Shluger A.L., Zakis Yu.R. Models of defect processes in wide-gap solids. -Riga: Zinatne, 1991. -320 p.

3. Kotomin E.A. and Kuzovkov V.N. Modern Aspects of Diffusion-Controlled Processes: Cooperative Phenomena in Bimolecular Reactions, North Holland, Elsevier Publ. (vol. 34 in a series of Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics),1996.620 p.

4. Catlow C.R.A. and Kotomin E.A. (eds.) Computational Materials Science, IOS press, Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington, DC, 2003, 420 pp. (NATO Science series III: Computer and Systems Sciences, vol. 187).

5. Sickafus K. and Kotomin E.A. (eds.). Radiation Effects in Solids, 2006, NATO ASI Science Series II. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, Vol. 235.

6. Kuzovkov V.N., Kotomin E.A., Zvejnieks G., Li K.D., Ding T.H., Wang L.M. Void Superlattice Formation in Electron Irradiated Insulating Materials.—Book chapter II in: Advances in Materials Science Research , vol. 2, 2011, pp. 191-216 (Nova Science Publishers, ed. Maryann C. Wythers).

7. Heifets E., Kotomin E.A., Mastrikov Yu., Piskunov S., and Maier J. Book chapter Thermodynamics of ABO₃ perovskite surfaces. -- In: Thermodynamics-Intective study (InTech Open Access Publishers), 2012, p.491-518.

8. E.A. Kotomin, R. Merkle, Yu.A. Mastrikov, M.M. Kuklja, and J. Maier, Energy Conversion: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. First-Principles Modeling of Elementary Processes. - Chapter 6 in book: Computational Approaches to Energy Materials (eds. A.Walsch, A.Sokol, C.R.A. Catlow, Wiley), 2013, p. 149-186.

8. Doktorov A.B., Kotomin E.A. Theory of Tunnelling Recombination of Defects Stimulated by Their Motion. (I). General formalism. -Phys. Stat. Solidi (b), 1982, 114, No.1, p.9-14.

9. Kotomin E.A., Doktorov A.V. Theory of Tunnelling Recombination of Defects Stimulated by Their Motion. (II). Three Recombination Mechanisms. -Phys. Stat. Solidi (b), 1982, 114, No.2, p.287-318.

10. Kalnin Yu.H., Kotomin E.A. Radiation-induced aggregation of immobile Frenkel defects in solids. -Probl. of atom. Sci. and techn., Kharkov phys.-techn. Inst., 20, 1984, p.18-34.

11. Kuzovkov V.N., Kotomin E.A. Kinetics of bimolecular reactions in condensed media. -Rep. on Progr. in Physics, 1988, 51, No.12, p.1479-1524.

12. Millers D.K., Grigorjeva L.G., Kotomin E.A., Artjushenko V.G. Butvina L.N. Radiation-induced processes in crystals and fibers made of silver halides. Latv.St.Univ. Preprint. 1988. P.70.

13. Vinetsky V.L., Kalnin Yu.R., Kotomin E.A., Ovchinnikov A.A. Radiation-induced Frenkel defect aggregation in solids. -Sov.phys.-uspekhi, 1990, 33, No.10, p.793-811.

14. Kotomin E.A., Kuzovkov V.A. Phenomenological theory of the recombination and accumulation kinetics of radiation defects in ionic solids. -Rept. Progr. Phys., 1992, 55, p.2079-2202.

15. Eglitis R., Kotomin E.A., Borstel G. Large scale computer modeling of point defects, polarons and pervoskite solid solutions. – Defects and Diffusion Forum, 2004, 226-228, p. 169-180.

16. Zhukovskii Yu., Kotomin E.A., Evarestov R.A., Ellis D.E. Periodic Models in Quantum Chemical Simulations of F Centers in Crystalline Metal Oxides. - Int. J. Quantum Chem., 2007, 107, p.2956-2985.

17. Kotomin E.A. and Popov A.I. The kinetics of radiation-induced point defect aggregation and metallic colloid formation in ionic solids. In: Radiation Effects in Solids, NATO ASI Science Series II. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (Eds. K. Sikafus and E.A. Kotomin), 235, p. 153-192.

18. M.M. Kuklja, E.A. Kotomin, R. Merkle, Yu.A. Mastrikov, and J. Maier, Combined theoretical and experimental analysis of processes determining cathode performance in solid oxide fuel cells. - Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, p. 5443-5471.

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