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Pavel Borisovich Sorokin

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WOS Research ID:  C-9749-2011

Scopus Author ID: 9277558700

ORCID: 0000-0001-5248-1799

Date of birth: August 19, 1982, Krasnoyarsk, USSR.

Nationality: Russian

Citation Index: 8454, H-index: 40

 

Education:

  • 2003 - Bachelor of Physics * - Krasnoyarsk State University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

  • 2005 - Master of Physics ** - Krasnoyarsk State University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

  • 2007 - PhD of Physical and Mathematical Sciences *** - Physics Institute named after P.N. Lebedev RAS (FIAN), Moscow, Russia

  • 2014 - Habilitation of Physical and Mathematical Sciences **** - Physico-Chemical Institute named after V.I. L. Ya. Karpova, Moscow, Russia

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* First-principle calculations of the structure and properties of carbon nanostructures

** Study of new non-carbon structures based on beryllium oxide and silicon dioxide

*** Modeling of new nanostructures by the density functional method (specialty 01.04.07 physics of condensed matter). The defense took place on May 28, 2007.

**** Theoretical studies of the physicochemical properties of low-dimensional structures (specialty 01.04.07 physics of condensed matter). The defense took place on December 03, 2014.

Expert in the fields of nanostructures, nanotechnology, composite materials, quantum-chemical calculations from first principles, density functional theory, semiempirical and empirical calculation methods.

Reviewer in scientific journals: Nature Nanotechnology, Materials Today, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Physica Status Solidi, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Nanoscale, Carbon, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Computational Materials Science

Member of the editorial board of the journal "Frontiers in Materials: Computational Materials Science" (since 2014)

Expert of the Federal Register of Scientific and Technical Sphere (certificate No. 04-01147)

Editor in scientific journals:

Spesial issue «Novel Low-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics Application» in journal Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991)

Awards and grants:

Awards:

  • 2015 - Prize of the Russian Club of the European Academy (Academia Europaea) for young scientists in the field of physics

  • 2015 - Scopus Award Russia 2015

  • 2021 - Moscow Government Prize for Young Scientists (Physics and Astronomy nomination)

  • 2021 - Badge "Young Scientist" (departmental award of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation)

Project management:

  • 2012-2013 - Project research and development FTP 14.V37.21.1645. Investigation of ways to create and properties of a single-crystal diamond film of nanometer thickness

  • 2012-2013 - RFBR 12-02-31261-mol_a. Investigation of the features of the electronic, elastic and mechanical properties of materials based on nanosized diamond clusters

  • 2015-2016 - MK-6218.2015.2. Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists - candidates of science

  • 2015-2017 - Infrastructure project "Theoretical materials science of nanostructures". Competitiveness Enhancement Program of NUST MISIS among the world's leading research and educational centers (No. К2-2015-033)

  • 2016-2018 - RFBR 16-32-60138-mol_a_dk. Features of the properties of new two-dimensional materials

  • 2017-2018 - Infrastructure project "Theoretical materials science of nanostructures". Competitiveness Enhancement Program of NUST MISIS among the world's leading research and educational centers (No. К2-2017-001)

  • 2017-2020 - Russian Science Foundation 17-72-20223 Investigation of new classes of nanomaterials with an unusual structure: films of monoatomic thickness based on d-metals and quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals nanowires and nanoribbons of composition M2X3 and M2X3Y8

  • 2018 - RFBR 17-33-50125 Nanosensors based on one-dimensional nanoribbons Ta2X3Y8 (X = Pd, Pt; Y = S, Se)

  • 2019-2020 - RFBR 18-32-20190 Investigation of the connection of Heusler alloys and a number of low-dimensional materials for use in spintronics

  • 2019-2020 - Infrastructure project "Search and prediction of new low-dimensional structures and study of their physical and chemical properties." Competitiveness Enhancement Program of NUST MISIS among the world's leading research and educational centers (No. К2-2019-016)

  • 2019-2020 - MD-1046.2019.2 Study of the formation of new quasi-two-dimensional nanostructures during a chemically induced phase transition, Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists and for state support of leading scientific schools of the Russian Federation

  • 2020-2022 - RFBR 20-32-90049 Theoretical study of spin effects in new magnetic heterocompounds

  • 2021-2022 - RFBR 20-52-76018 ERA_t (international project ERA.Net RUS plus). Ion-Implanted 2D Materials for Single-site Catalysis

  • 2021-2023 - Russian Science Foundation 21-12-00399 Chemically-induced phase transition in low-dimensional structures

  • 2022-2024 - Grant for the establishment of a laboratory within the framework of implementation of the strategic academic leadership program "Priority-2030" and activities aimed at conducting breakthrough research and creating knowledge-intensive products and technologies, building human resources capacity of the research and development sector (№ K6-2022-041)

 

Participation in projects:

  • 2004-2007 - Participant of the joint Russian-German grant DFG / RAS (N 436 RUS 113/785)

  • 2006-2008 - RFBR 06-02-16132. Investigation of the process of complex chemical adsorption of hydrogen occurring on the surface of carbon nanostructures due to attached clusters of metal catalysts for hydrogen decomposition (PI A.S. Fedorov)

  • 2008-2010 - RFBR 08-02-01096-a. Graphene-based nanostructures: modeling of structure, electronic and transport properties (PI L.A. Chernozatonskii)

  • 2008-2010 - RFBR 08-03-00420-a. Graphene-based nanocomposite materials: synthesis and physicochemical properties (PI A.A. Berlin)

  • 2009-2010 - RFBR 09-02-92107-YaF_a. Study of the formation mechanisms, structure and properties of nanoparticles of complex composition by the methods of quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics (PI S.G. Ovchinnikov)

  • 2011-2013 - RFBR 11-02-01453-a. Materials and components for nanoelectronics based on modified graphenes (graphane, diamane, graphene oxide and fluoride) modeling of structure and properties (PI L.A. Chernozatonski)

  • 2014-2016 - Russian Science Foundation 14-12-01217. Modeling the structure and properties of new multilayer nanomaterials based on transition metal dichalcogenides and BN-graphene layers (PI L.A. Chernozatonskii)

  • 2017-2019 - RFBR 17-02-01095-a. New graphene-like bilayer structures as elements of electronics and optics: modeling geometry and physical properties (PI L.A. Chernozatonskii)

  • 2018-2020 - RFBR 18-58-53034-GFEN_а. Far UV photodetectors based on BN nanoheterostructures of the core-shell type and quantum dots (PI D.V. Shtansky)

  • 2019-2022 - Russian Science Foundation 19-72-10046. Experimental and numerical study of nanostructured materials based on graphene and its compounds (PI N.A. Nebogatikova)

  • 2019-2022 - RFBR 19-29-03050. Nonvolatile multilevel photoresist memory based on graphene oxide and related low-dimensional materials (PI G.N. Panin)

Teaching activities:

Lecturer:

"Physics of semiconductors and dielectrics" (2009, Siberian Federal University)

"Nanostructures, nanomaterials and nanotechnology" (2009, Siberian Federal University)

"Quantum-chemical modeling of the structure and properties of solids" (2014-present, MIPT)

"Principles of organizing effective scientific work" (2022-present, MIPT)

"Mathematical simulation of materials" (2022-present, MISIS)

"Computer and Information Technologies in Science and Production" (2022-present, MISIS)

Seminar teacher :

"Computer methods in physics" (2008, Siberian Federal University)

"Quantum-chemical modeling of crystal properties" (2008, Siberian Federal University)

Student guidance:

Undergraduate:

A.A. Zaitsev (2009), K.R. Ostapenko (2013), S.V. Erokhin (2014), E.Yu. Pashkin (2015), K.V. Larionov (2016), S.V. Bondarenko (2017), A.I. Khabibrakhmanov (2018), E.V. Sukhanova (2018), V.A. Prenas (2021), V.V. Svetlichnov.

Master's degree:

Yu.A. Kvashnina (2012), A.G. Kvashnin (2012), S.V. Erokhin (2016), K.V. Larionov (2018), E.Yu. Pashkin (2018), S.V. Bondarenko (2019), A.I. Khabibrakhmanov (2020), E.V. Sukhanov (2020), V.V. Zhukov (2021), J.J.P. Pereda (2021), K.V. Stepanova (2022), V.A. Prenas (2023)

Postgraduate studies:

A.G. Kvashnin (defense at NUST MISIS, 03/17/2016, Ph.D.), Yu.A. Kvashnina (defense at MIPT, 27.12.2018, Ph.D.), S.V. Erohin (defense at MIPT, 15.10.2021, Ph.D.), K.V. Larionov (defense at MIPT, 25.11.2022, Ph.D.), V.V. Zhukov, L.A. Varlamova, J.J.P. Pereda.

 

Work experience:

  • 10.11.2005-04.10.2007 - Junior Researcher - Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia

  • 05.10.2007-01.01.2010 - Senior Lecturer - Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

  • 07.01.2010-18.01.2011 - Postdoc - Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (group of Prof. B.I. Yakobson)

  • 07.02.2011-31.12.2014 - Senior Researcher - Technological Institute for Superhard and New Carbon Materials, Moscow Region, Troitsk, Russia

  • 01.01.2015-01.10.2015 - Leading Researcher - Technological Institute for Superhard and New Carbon Materials, Moscow, Troitsk, Russia

  • 01.10.2015-01.09.2016 - Head of the Laboratory for Modeling New Materials - Technological Institute for Superhard and New Carbon Materials, Moscow, Troitsk, Russia

  • 09.01.2016-31.08.2022 - Leading Research Fellow - NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia

  • 31.08.2022-present - Laboratory Head - NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia

Guest researcher:

  • 03/15/2006 - 05/15/2006 and 06/18/2007 - 07/19/2007 - University of Mathematics. Humboldt, Berlin, Germany

  • 28.06.2012-28.09.2012 - Japan Nuclear Energy Agency, Japan

  • 03.08.2013-03.09.2013 - Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany (group of Prof. G. Seifert)

  • 17.08.2015-31.08.2015 - Japan Nuclear Energy Agency, Japan

  • 16.01.2017-24.02.2022 - National Institute of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Quantum Beam Research Directorate, Japan

 

Social activity:

  • 23.04.2008-24.04.2008 - Secretary of the seminar - Interdisciplinary seminar "Measuring and analytical equipment for nanotechnology: modern view and development trends"

  • 24.08.2009-28.08.2009 - Scientific secretary of the conference - International conference "Trends in nanomechanics and nanoengineering"

  • 12/13/2013 - Deputy. Chairman - International Seminar "New Approaches in Material Design"

  • 2014-2015 - Deputy. Chairman - All-Moscow Seminar "Modern Theoretical and Experimental Materials Science"

  • 2021 - Chairman - International Conference "New Carbon Nanomaterials: Ultrathin Diamond Films"

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