CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Victor (Viktor) Yuriyovych Reshetnyak
Address Office:
Physics Faculty
National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
Volodymyrs'ka street 64,
Kyiv, 01601,
UKRAINE
Phone Office: 380(44) 526 44 77, Fax: 380(44) 235 31 13
E-mail: VReshetnyak@univ.kiev.ua
ACADEMIC DEGREES
1980, MSc., First Class Diploma, Kiev State Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine
1985, PhD., Kiev State Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine
1991, Senior Research Fellow Diploma, High Attestation Committee at the Council of Ministers of USSR
1994, Doctor Science, Kyiv University, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998, Associate Professor Diploma, Ministry of Education of Ukraine
2002, Professor of Theoretical Physics Diploma, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION:
1975 -1980 Kiev State Taras Shevchenko University, theoretical physics department, Kyiv, Ukraine
1980 - 1984 Kiev State Taras Shevchenko University, postgraduate student supervisor Prof. I.P.Pinkevich
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
1982 - 1986 Junior Research Fellow, Theoretical physics department, Kiev State Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev Ukraine
1986 - 1995 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Surface Chemistry Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine and Assistant professor (1987-1990), Associate professor (1990 -1995) theoretical physics department, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
1995 - 1997 Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton Research Fellow
1997 - 1998 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Surface Chemistry Ukrainian Academy of Sciences,and Associate professor, theoretical physics department, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
1998 - 1999 Associate professor, theoretical physics department, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
1999 - present Professor, theoretical physics department, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Physics of liquid crystals: polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC), in-plane switching mode (IPS), anchoring effects, photoalignment of LCs, light scattering, nonlinear optics, photorefraction, phase transitions.
Effective electro-dynamical parameters of a heterogeneous media.
Teaching undergraduate students: ordinary differential equation and calculus of variations, analytic geometry and linear algebra, mathematical analysis, classical mechanics, classical electrodynamics.
Teaching graduate students: introduction to theory of liquid crystals, Pade approximations, fractional derivatives, Lie groups and differential equations
PUBLICATIONS: more than 180 papers in scientific journals, patents and books:
Professional activity
- Member of the board of International Liquid Crystal Society (1998-2002);
- Member of the Ukrainian physical society. Referee for INTAS projects;
- Member of two specialized councils for doctor science degrees (Ukraine)
RESEARCH ABROAD
February 1995 - February 1997, University of Southampton,Southampton, United Kingdom. Research Fellow with Prof. T.J. Sluckin, Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Financed by Grant GR/J88111, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom). July-August 2004, Rioyal Society Grant (UK)
November - December 1997, June 1999 Visiting Professor at Institut fur Phys.Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universitaet, Halle (S), Germany Invited by Prof.G.Pelzl, Research was partially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
October - November 1999, September - October 2000, October – November 2003, July 2004, Visiting Professor at Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079 U.S.A. Financed by National Research Council and NATO Program Grantee: Prof. Kenneth Singer
International grants I am involved recently: CRDF (USA) UÅ1-315 (1997-99), UP1-2121A (2000-2001);
Twinning Programme for Ukraine (USA), 1999-2000;
INTAS grants (EU) 1997-0635, 2000-312, 2001-170
Royal Society Joint Project Grant to Prof. T J Sluckin (University of Southampton) and myself, 1.01.2004 - 30.06.2006,
NATO Linkage grant 2006-2007,
ECO-NET grant France-Hungary-Bolgaria-Armenia-Ukraine 2008-2009.
The European Office of Aerospace Research & Development Grant (EOARD) 2007-2010
U. S. Army International Technology Center-Atlantic (USAITC-A) Grant 2008-2009
ECO-Net Grant for joint France-Armenia-Bulgaria-Ukraine, 2008-2009
Joint Slovenia Ukraine Grant with Prof. I. Drevensek-Olenik, 2009-2010
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action MP0902: Composites of Inorganic Nanotubes and Polymers (2009-2013)
SEMINARS, SUMMER SCHOOLS, CONFERENCES
- 1. European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Flims, Switzerland 1993
2. 15th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Budapest, Hungary 1994
3. VIth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals Le Toque, France 1995
4. Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, San Jose, USA 1995
5. British Liquid Crystal Conference, Exeter, UK 1995
6. British Liquid Crystal Conference, Preston, UK 1996
7. 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Kent, Ohio, USA 1996
8. VIIth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals Heppenheim, Germany 1997
9. Spring college on Statistical mechanics and dynamics of soft condensed matter, Trieste, Italy 1998
10. Bianisotropics'98, Braunschweig, Germany 1998
11. 17th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Strasbourg, France 1998
12. IXth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals Sorrento, Italy 2001
13. 19th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Edinburgh, UK 2002
14. International Conference on Theoretical Physics, UNESCO, Paris, France 2002
15. Xth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals 2003 Aussois, France
16. 20th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004
17. XIth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals 2005 Florida, USA
18. International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, Gent, Belgium 2006
19. 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, Colorado, USA 2006 20. Photorefractive Workshop sponsored by AFRL/MLPJ Florida, USA 2006
21. 2nd Annual NoE-PHOREMOST Workshop on Advances 2006 in Nanophotonics, Vilnius, Lithuania
22. SPIE European Symposium on Optics and Optoelectronics, Liquid Crystals and Applications in Optics, Prague, Czech Republic 2007
23. Photorefractive Workshop sponsored by AFRL/MLPJ Florida, USA 2007
24. XIIth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals Puebla, Mexico 2007
25. Korean-Ukrainian-American Joint Symposium, Kyiv, Uktaine 2007
26 II meeting "Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields",. Bonn, Germany, 2008
27 Six Photorefractive Workshop sponsored by AFRL/MLPJ South Carolina, USA 2008
28 Korean-Ukrainian-American Joint Symposium New Horizons of Liquid Crystals Science and Application II, Korea, 2008
29 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Jeju, South Korea, 2008
30 2nd International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2008
31. Six Photorefractive Workshop sponsored by AFRL/MLPJ South Carolina, USA, 2009
32 37th German Liquid Crystal Meeting, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009
33 Eurodisplay 2009, Rome Italy, 2009
34 XIIIth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Erice, Italy 2009
35 12th International Symposium on Colloidal and Molecular Electro-optics, Waldthausen Castle / Mainz, Germany 2010
36 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland 2010
37 Seventh Photorefractive Workshop sponsored by AFRL/MLPJ, Florida, USA 2010
My kids (2001)
