Curriculum vitae of Yaroslav Filinchuk, January 2010

 

                        www.filinchuk.com                        Office tel.: +33 47 688 27 75                        Yaroslav.Filinchuk@esrf.fr

                        Born in October 1978 in Lviv, Ukraine

Education

1992-1995       student of Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum

1995-2000       student of the Faculty of Chemistry, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine.

                        Graduated with distinction in June 2000. Diploma work:

                        “Crystal chemistry of Cu(I) p-complexes with allyl derivatives of guanidine”

2000-2002       Ph.D. student (extra-mural position) at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry,

                        Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ukraine

Oct. 2002        Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry: “Synthesis and stereochemistry of copper(I) p-complexes

                        with allyl derivatives of azomethynes and thiosemicarbazide”

Employment

2000-2002       assistant (70%) at the Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Geneva, Switzerland

2002-2005       assistant (100%) at the Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Geneva, Switzerland

2006-2007       scientist at the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility,

                        Grenoble, France. Temporary contract (CDD)

2008-now        scientist at the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility,

                        Grenoble, France. Permanent contract (CDI)

2010                invited associate professor at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and iNANO,

                        University of Aarhus, Denmark (visiting the group of Prof. T. R. Jensen)

Awards

1995                silver medal at the 27th International Chem. Olympiad (Beijing), ranked 36th in the world

1995-1998       individual awards from International Scientific and Education Program (ISEP) and

                        International Soros Science Education Program (ISSEP)

Scientific publications

107 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 1 in Science, 6 in Angew. Chem., 3 in JACS, 1 in PRL and 1 in Adv. Mater. They received 371 citations during the year 2009, the h-index is 13.

Visibility in scientific and mass media

My research activity was covered by EuroNews (3 min 47 sec video, May 2009), in three press releases of the European Synchrotron and the University of Geneva (2007, 2008), in Chemical Science News, Science Daily and many other internet resources, in regional newspapers and on TV (France 3, 2007; EuroNews, 2009).

I gave ~10 oral and 5 invited presentations at international conferences, was a member of a panel discussion at a major conference on hydrogen economy (Richmond, USA, 2007).

Teaching

I taught chemistry to high school students ("Small Academy of Sciences", University of Lviv, 1995-2000); served as a member of a jury and an organizer of the Ukrainian Chemistry Olympiads (1999-2000); gave a number of lectures and seminars in Geneva, Grenoble, Lviv, Umea (course on powder diffraction, 2009), at Erice school on high-pressure crystallography (lecture and two workshops, 2009); organized two practical workshops for the users of SNBL (European Synchrotron, 2007), accepted an invitation to lecture at the Erice school on powder diffraction (2011).

Administrative experience

1996-2000           member of the academic councils of the Chemical Faculty and the University of Lviv

2001-now        member of the Swiss Society for Crystallography

Languages      Ukrainian (native), Russian (excellent), English (fluent), French

Family           My wife, Maria Roudakova Filinchuk, is Swiss. She is part-time employed as a jeweller (joaillier-bijoutier) in a small company located in Geneva.