Contact details

Dr. E. Penev
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510, U.S.A.
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Education

• Ph.D. in Computational Materials Science
  Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany
  Thesis: On the theory of surface diffusion in InAs/GaAs(001) heteroepitaxy (graduated summa cum laude)
• M.S. in Solid State Physics
  St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  Thesis: Persistent currents and interference effects in multichain mesoscopic rings

Work Experience

• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Project scientist
  -- coarse-grained models of lipid bilayers
  -- hydrogen bonding and polypeptide energetics: force fields vs. DFT
• Department of Physics and Astronomy, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
  Postdoctoral Assistant
  -- Minima search algorithms
  -- Protein folding
  -- Empirical force fields, Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics
• Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
  Postdoctoral researcher
  Graduate student (computational materials science, surface physics, density-functional theory)
  -- Effect of strain on surface diffusion in semiconductor heteroepitaxy
  -- Reconstructions of III-V (001) semiconductor surfaces
  -- Surface stress and phase equilibria in InGaAs surface alloys
  -- Quantum dot growth kinetics
  -- Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations
  -- H₂ adsorption/desorption on Si(001)
• Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  Research Assistant
  -- Parameterization of model Hamiltonians
  -- First-principles electronic structure calculations of metal-oxide clusters
  -- Electronic structure of high-T_c superconducting materials
• Center for Space Research & Technologies, St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  Research Fellow
  -- Persistent currents in disordered mesoscopic rings
  -- Electronic structure of high-T_c superconducting materials

Computing Skills

• Codes & libraries: LAMMPS , NAMD , TINKER , DYNAMO , fhi98md, fhi98PP
• Operating Systems: UNIX (Linux, AIX, UNICOSm/k, IRIX, HP-UX), MacOS, MS Windows
• Hardware Systems: IBM SP4, BlueGene, Cray T3E, HP, PCs and UNIX workstations
• Programming Languages: Fortran 90/95, MPI, UNIX Shell scripts, C/C++, Tcl, Python
• Software Applications: Most of the ultimate scientific visualization tools (Mathematica, Matlab, etc.); vector graphics editors (CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, etc.); basic web design tools

Awards

• Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, Germany
• Gold Medal for academic achievement, Mathematics and Natural Sciences High School, Shumen, Bulgaria