Curriculum Vitae

Volodymyr Turkowski

Department of Physics
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
Phone 407-823-2325
Email Volodymyr.Turkowski@ucf.edu

PROFESSIONAL CARRIER

Research Assistant Professor: Physics Department, University of Central Florida (since 2011)

Postdoctoral/Research Associate:

  • Physics Department and NTSC, University of Central Florida, 2008-2011
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2006-2008
  • Physics Department, Georgetown University, 2003 – 2006
  • Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 2001 – 2003
  • Physics Department, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, 1998 – 2001

EDUCATION

  • Mr.Sc. (Diploma with Honor) June 1995. Department of Physics, Kiev University, Ukraine. Thesis title: “Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in (2+1)-Dimensional Gauge Field Theories”. Advisor: Prof. V.P. Gusynin.
  • Ph.D. March 1998. Department of Physics, Kiev University, Ukraine. Thesis title: “Two-Dimensional Fermion-Boson Models of Superconductivity at Arbitrary Charge Carrier Density”. Advisor: Prof. V.M. Loktev

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

  • American Physical Society
  • Editor: ISRN Condensed Matter Physics (Hindawi)
  • Referee: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Chemical Physics Letters, Solid State Sciences, Bioelectromagnetics, Condensed Matter Physics (Ukraine)

AWARDS AND SCHOOLARSHIPS

  • Best poster presentation award, NanoFlorida 2009 (co-author)
  • World Laboratory Scholarship, University of Salerno, Italy, 1998-1999
  • Special Award for the Best MrSc Thesis Presentation, National University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1995
  • George Soros Grant, National University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1995
  • Special University Scholarship for excellence in studies, National University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1993-1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Strongly Correlated Electrons
  • Ultrafast Processes
  • Nanooptics
  • Nanomagnetism
  • Superconductivity

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (total 62 papers)

  • V.M. Loktev and V.M. Turkowski, “On the theory of pseudogap formation in 2D attracting fermion systems”, JETP 87, 329 (1998).
  • V.M. Turkowski, J.K. Freericks, “Spectral moment sum rules for strongly correlated electrons in time-dependent electric fields”. Phys. Rev. B 73, 075108 (2006); Erratum: Phys. Rev. B 73, 209902 (2006).
  • J.K. Freericks, V.M. Turkowski, and V. Zlatic, “Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266408 (2006).
  • V. Turkowski, A. Leonardo, C.A. Ullrich, “Time-dependent density-functional theory approach for exciton binding energies”, Phys. Rev. B 79, 233201 (2009).
  • V. Turkowski, A. Kabir, N. Nayyar, and T.S. Rahman, “A DFT+DMFT approach for Nanosystems”, Journ. of Phys.: Cond. Mat. (Fast Track) 22, 462202 (2010).
  • V. M. Loktev, V. Turkowski, “Possible high-temperature superconductivity in multilayer graphane: can the cuprates be beaten?”, Journ. of Low Temp. Phys. 164, 264 (2011).
  • S. Kahle, Zh. Deng, N. Malinowski, Ch. Tonnoir, Alicia Forment-Aliaga, N. Thontasen, G. Rinke, D. Le, V. Turkowski, T.S. Rahman, S. Rauschenbach, M. Ternes, and K. Kern, “Addressing the Quantum Magnetism of Individual Manganese-12-Acetate Molecular Magnets Anchored at Surfaces”, Nano Letters 12, 518 (2012).
  • V. Turkowski, S. Babu, D. Le, M. K. Haldar, A.Wagh, Zh. Hu, A. S. Karakoti, A. Gesquiere, B. Law, S. Mallik, T.S. Rahman, M.N. Leuenberger, S. Seal, “Linker-induced anomalous emission of organic molecule-conjugated metal oxide nanoparticles”, ACS Nano 6, 4854 (2012).
  • N. Nayyar, V. Turkowski and T.S. Rahman, “Optical Generation of Collective Plasmon Modes in Small Gold Chains Induced by Doping Transition-Metal Impurities”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 157404 (2012) .
  • V. Turkowski, T.S. Rahman, “Nonadiabatic Time-Dependent Spin-Density Functional Theory for strongly correlated systems”, Journ. of Phys.: Cond. Mat. J. 26, 022201 (2014) (Fast Track Communication).

INVITED TALKS (total 40 presentations)

  • August 13, 4014 – International Conference on Computational Physics 2014, Boston, MA
  • June 26, 2013 — Workshop “Advances in Photoreactions: When spin-orbit coupling, optical excitation and motion of nuclei are of equal importance?”, Telluride, CO
  • February 26, 2011 — The 51th Sanibel Symposium, St. Simons Island, GA
  • October 2010 — Department of Physics and Engineering, Columbia University (Prof. Tony F. Heinz’s group)
  • October 2008 — Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia
  • January 30, 2008 — Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
  • May 9, 2006 — Physics Department, Rutgers University