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Dr. Golibjon Berdiyorov
Senior Scientist
Dr. Golibjon Berdiyorov
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Computational Physics
Honored Diploma in Physics
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Golibjon Berdiyorov is currently a senior scientist at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained his Diploma in Physics at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan in 1998. He defended his PhD thesis in 2007 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His thesis was about computational study of parameters of superconducting materials under external electrictromagnetic fields. After his PhD he did postdoctoral research for several years, where he learned different computer simulation methods starting from first-principle density functional theory to continuum models for large scale simulations.
His current research interest is in theoretical materials science for energy, wqater and environmental applications. In particular he is interested in predicting novel and functional materials for photovoltaics, water desalination and carbon capture and storage applications.
During his Assistant Professor position at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, he was heavily involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.
PhD in Computational Physics
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Sept. 2007
Honored Diploma in Physics
Tashkent State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
June 1998
- Theoretical aspects of rectenna-based solar cell development: predictive modelling for i) geometry diodes made of low-dimensional materials (e.g., graphene), ii) CNT-based diodes and iii) molecular diodes.
- Materials screening for molecular electronics: revealing the effects of anchoring groups, molecular backbone and intermolecular interactions on the electronic, optical and transport properties of molecular junctions from the first-principles calculations.
- Atomistic simulations for molecular self-assembly-based anticorrosive layer deposition/development.
- Exploring the gas sensing properties of low-dimensional functional materials (e.g., graphene, CNT, MXene).
- Metal-ion battery research: predictive modeling for electrodes.
- Thermoelectric properties of low-dimensional materials: predictions from the first-principles calculations.
- Spin-dependent quantum transport calculations for spintronics applications.
- Perovskite solar cell development: prediction from the first-principles simulations to improve the operational stability and efficiency of the devices.
- Exploring the potential of low-dimensional materials (graphene, CNT and MXene) for water purification applications using computer simulations.
- Catalytic water splitting using nanostructured systems.
- Density functional theory (DFT) for structural, electronic, and optical properties of low-dimensional and molecular systems.
- Phonon calculations for structural stability.
- Nudged elastic band calculations and transition state analysis.
- Quantum transport calculations using nonequilibrium Green’s functional formalism in combination with DFT.
- DFT-based molecular dynamics calculations.
- Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics calculations.
- Adaptive Kinetic and time-stamped force-bias Monte Carlo simulations for potential landscape analysis.
- Classical and Reactive force-field based molecular dynamics simulations.
- Home-made parallel codes for solution of coupled differential equations from mean field theories (time-dependent Ginzburg-landau equations combined with heat transfer equation, Sine-Gordon equations).
Senior Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
July 2019 - Present
Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
July 2014 – July 2019
Assistant Professor of Physics
College of Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
August 2013 – July 2014
Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Department of Physics
Loughborough University, UK
October 2012 – August 2013
Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
October 2007 - September 2012
Visiting Scholar
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
August 2011 - August 2012
Visiting Scholar
Northern Illinois University, USA
March 2009 - May 2010
Visiting Scholar
Atomic Center of Bariloche, Argentina
October 2009
Research Assistant
Institute of Applied Physics, National University of Uzbekistan.
June 1998 - September 2002
- An estimation on the mechanical stabilities of SAMs by low energy Ar+ cluster ion collision, Scientific reports 11, 12772 (2021).
- Photoinduced Vibrations Drive Ultrafast Structural Distortion in Lead Halide Perovskite, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, 16569-16578 (2020).
- Enhancing the electronic dimensionality of hybrid organic-inorganic frameworks by hydrogen bonded molecular cations, Mater. Horiz. 6, 1187-1196 (2019) (SIF 13.183).
- Single-step strategy for the fabrication of GaON/ZnO nanoarchitectured photoanode their experimental and computational photoelectrochemical water splitting, Nano Energy 44, 23-33 (2018).
- Cation Effect on Hot Carrier Cooling in Halide Perovskite Materials, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 4439–4445 (2017).
- Large CO2 uptake on a monolayer of CaO, J. Mater. Chem. A 5, 2110-2114 (2017).
- Solar Cell Materials by Design: Hybrid Pyroxene Corner-Sharing VO4 Tetrahedral Chains, ChemSusChem 10, 1931-942 (2017).
- Realization of Artificial Ice Systems for Magnetic Vortices in a Superconducting MoGe Thin Film with Patterned Nanostructures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 067001 (2013).
- Unconventional vortex states in nanoscale superconductors due to shape-induced resonances in the inhomogeneous Cooper-pair condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 107001 (2012).
- Mesoscopic field and current compensator based on a hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet structure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 147004 (2005).
- Listed in Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientist list in the cathegory of Physics and Astronomy (Applied Physics) [J. P. A. Ioannidis, K. W. Boyack, J. Baas (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918].
- CHEM SUS CHEM “Cover image”, Issue 9, 2017: Solar Cell Materials by Design: Hybrid Pyroxene Corner-Sharing VO4 Tetrahedral Chains.
- Superconducting Science and Technology “Cover image”, Vol. 28, Number 2, February 2015: Effect of pinning on the response of superconducting strips to an external pulsed current.
- Awarded Intra-European Marie-Curie Fellowship for postdoctoral research, Loughborough University, UK, 2012-2013.
- Prise of the Research Council of University of Antwerp for the best research activity in natural sciences for the period 2009-2011.
- Postdoctoral research grants of Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) (www.fwo.be) for the periods 2007-2010 and 2010-2012 (only the best two applications in each subject are funded).
- Award for the best poster presentation in the 13th International Workshop on Vortex Matter in Superconductors, July 31 – August 5, 2011, Chicago, USA.
- Applied Physics Letters “Cover image”, November issue, 2007: Fluxonic cellular automata.
- Award for the best poster presentation in Workshop on “Nanosensors and Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions for space applications”, 1-8 April 2006, Bjorkliden, Sweden.
- Honored Diploma in Physics, Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan 1998.