Curriculum vitae		March 2011
www.filinchuk.com		Office tel.: +32 10 47 28 13	Yaroslav.Filinchuk@uclouvain.be
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 Dept. Inorganic Chemistry, Ivan Franko Lviv National University. Ph.D. in inorg. chemistry “Synthesis and stereochemistry of copper(I) p-complexes with allyl derivatives of azomethynes and thiosemicarbazide” in Oct. 2002
now	preparing a habilitation "Solid-state chemistry of metal hydrides", University of Lyon 1
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
2006-2010	scientist at the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France. 2006-2007: Temporary (CDD), 2008-2010 Permanent contract (CDI)
Jan-Feb 2010	invited associate professor at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and iNANO, University of Aarhus, Denmark (visiting the group of Prof. T. R. Jensen)
2011-now	professor of structural chemistry, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Awards
1995	silver medal at the 27^th International Chem. Olympiad (Beijing), ranked 36^th in the world
1995-1998	individual awards from International Scientific and Education Program (ISEP) and International Soros Science Education Program (ISSEP). Base: grant application + competition
2010	laureate of the ESRF Young Scientist Award "for the outstanding work on the chemistry of solid state hydrides"
Scientific publications
138 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 1 in Science, 7 in Angew. Chem., 4 in JACS, 2 in PRL and 1 in Adv. Mater. Currently they receive ~2 citations per day, the h-index is 22.
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). ESRF published March 2010 issue of "ESRFnews" largely highlighting my activity. I have given ~11 oral and 11 invited presentations at international conferences and schools, ~20 invited seminars, was a member of a panel discussion at a major conference on hydrogen economy (Richmond, USA, 2007), am an invited keynote speaker (1 hour lecture) at the IUCr congress in Madrid, August 2011 (~2000 participants).
Teaching
Taught chemistry to high school students ("Small Academy of Sciences", University of Lviv, 1995-2000); 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 (ESRF, 2007); in the beginning of 2010 gave a lecture course on crystallography at the University of Aarhus (3 ECTS-credit), and accepted an invitation to lecture at the Erice school on powder diffraction (June 2011).
Administrative experience and professional memberships
1995-1998	member of the Academic Councils of the Chemical Faculty and of the University of Lviv
1998-2000	member of a jury and an organizer of the Ukrainian and Soros Chemistry Olympiads
2001-now	member of the Swiss and since 2008 of the European Crystallographic Societies
Languages	Ukrainian (native), Russian (excellent), English (fluent), French
Family	My wife, Maria Roudakova Filinchuk, is a Swiss jeweller (joaillier-bijoutier). Our daughter Anna was born in February 2011.