Konstantin Neyman

Konstantin Neyman is a Member of the recently created Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis AvanÇats (ICREA), Spain. He is also affiliated to the Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTC UB) and the Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, where he leads the group Reactivity of Nanostructures of the Computational Materials Science Laboratory. Neyman is an expert in theoretical and computational chemistry. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia and completed his Habilitation degree in 2003 at the Technische Universität München, Germany. Dr. Neyman coauthors about 110 articles in highly ranked scientific journals and 8 reviews in books. His work contributed to such areas of research as interactions at oxide and metal surfaces, nonclassical geometry of adsorption complexes, oxide and zeolite catalysts, reactions of metal complexes of biological and environmental relevance, and relativistic approaches to calculate EPR parameters. Among his current main scientific interests are first-principles theoretical/computational investigations of advanced nanostructured materials relevant to heterogeneous catalysis and of chemical reactions catalyzed by them. In these studies, he successfully employs and develops the modeling approach proposed by him and coauthors to realistically describe catalysts using moderately large nanoparticles instead of common models relying on idealized single crystal surfaces.

Biography Updated on 20 July 2009

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