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Position
Post Doctoral Fellow
Qualifications
Engineer-physicist (M.Sci) in experimental physics
(Specialization – Electronics and automation of physical plants), Urals State Technical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
PhD in Physics of condensed matter, Urals State Technical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Room
601, Physics and Astronomy
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 (Auto Attendant) + Ext Number 3781Internal Phone: 3781
Email: konstantin.ivanovskikh@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch, 8140
New Zealand
Background
Konstantin graduated from Urals State Technical University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) in 2002 with specialization in experimental physics. His PhD research (2002-2006) dealt with time-resolved luminescence and optical VUV spectroscopy of fluoride crystals doped with trivalent lanthanide ions using VUV and X-ray synchrotron radiation facilities. In 2007 he started his postdoctoral research at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) where he was involved in a project devoted to synthesis and characterization of new fast emitting scintillators for medical imaging. Particularly, the research was focused on dynamics and spectroscopy of processes responsible for a fast matrix-to-impurity energy transfer, radiative relaxation of lanthanide 5d states, crystal structure defects and intrinsic electronic excitations in inorganic materials. At the end of 2009 he moved to Lyon (France) where he spent one year working at CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. This work dealt with VUV spectroscopic and photoconductivity study of lanthanide doped bulk and nanostructured materials.
Research
- Excited state absorption spectroscopy and dynamics of lanthanide ions.
- Time-resolved luminescence and optical spectroscopy of condensed matter with using VUV and X-ray synchrotron radiation;
- Dynamics and energy transfer of electronic excitations in lanthanide doped luminescence materials, dynamics of defect formation and relaxation.
- Working on the Phosphor Marsden Project with Mike Reid, Jon-Paul Wells and Roger Reeves.