"CURRICULUM VITAE

Name Nikita D. Arnold
Date and place of birth April 5, 1965, Moscow, Russia
Citizenship Austrian, Russian
Languages Russian (native) English (fluent) German, French (read with dictionary)
Personal Information Married, one son
Work Address: J. Kepler University, Institute of Experimental Physics/Department of Soft Matter Physics
Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
Phone: +43-732-2468-9293, Fax: +43-732-2468-9273
http://www.somap.jku.at/SoMaP-Dateien/home-Dateien/people-Dateien/NArnold/NArnold.html
E-mail: nikita.arnold@jku.at

Education
1981- Moscow Specialized School N91 (Physical-Mathematical class)
1987- M. Sc. in Physics (diploma with honor), Moscow Physics and Technology Institute,
Master thesis: "Thermokinetic processes in gas media, induced by cw-laser radiation"
Supervisor: Doctor of Sciences Nikolai A. Kirichenko
1990- Ph.D. in Physics (radiophysics), Moscow Physics and Technology Institute.
Ph.D. Thesis: "Peculiarities of structures formation with inhomogeneous infrared laser heating of condensed media"
Supervisors: Professor, corr. member of Russian AS, Nikolai V. Karlov,
Doctor of Sciences Nikolai A. Kirichenko

Positions

1993-pres. Scientific coworker, Institute of Experimental Physics, University Assistant, Institute of Applied Physics, J. Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
2004,05,06 Visiting research scholar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA, Computer Science and Mathematics Division
1997-98, Visiting Professor in the Institute of Applied Physics, J. Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
95/96 WS
1992 Staff associate in Columbia University, NY, USA, Department of Ophthalmology, Eye Research Division.
1991,1992 Visiting Scientist, Institute of Applied Physics, J. Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
1991 Research Fellow, Institute of General Physics, Moscow, Russia, Department of Wave Phenomena.
1990 Junior Research Fellow, Institute of General Physics, Moscow, Russia, Department of Wave Phenomena.
1987 Postgraduate student in the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute, Department of Problems of Physics and Energetics.

Research Interests



- Possibility of sub-wavelength focusing of surface plasmons.

- Modeling of focusing and transmission properties of arrays of transparent colloidal microspheres.

- Modeling of laser cleaning.

- Modeling of laser plume expansion in pulsed laser deposition.

- Modeling of polymer ablation and modification by short high intensity laser pulses.

- Non-coherent structure formation, oscillations and bistabilities in laser CVD and laser direct writing.

- Theoretical study and computer simulation of non-linear phenomena in distributed systems (especially inhomogeneous) due to the non-linear coupling between temperature, chemical kinetics, diffusion and optical properties of the media, illuminated with laser radiation.

- Modeling of non-linear dynamics in biological systems, neural networks, spin glasses, and their use as model systems for protein folding and time dependent behavior.

- Diffusion processes in gas-phase laser material operation, mutual influence of heat and mass fluxes.

- Pattern formation and development due to hydrodynamic and chemical instabilities during laser processing.

Refereeing experience
Since 1994 reviewed scientific papers for Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics A&B, Applied Surface Science, Thin Solid Films, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Headed Research Projects
FWF (Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich) Project # P10406-PHY "NON-COHERENT STRUCTURE FORMATION AND BISTABILITY IN LASER PROCESSING" 1994-1996

FWF (Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich) Project # P14700-TPH “MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF LASER CLEANING” 2001-2003

Active participation in European TMR project #ERBFMRXCT98 0188 “Laser Cleaning”


Summary of Major Scientific Accomplishments



04-06 Theoretical description of focusing and transmission properties of single transparent dielectric spheres and their arrays. Its application to different types of laser material processing.

01-03 Theoretical description of dynamics and dry laser cleaning of nano-particles. Suggestions on resonant dry laser cleaning, humidity cleaning and cleaning with steep fronts.

99-00 Analytical consideration of spherical plume expansion into the ambient atmosphere in pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The model describes on the unified basis free adiabatic expansion -- spherical shock wave -- plume stopping transitions. Optimization of multiple-pulse laser ablation for pulsed laser deposition.

95-98 Development of volume thermal ablation models to explain peculiarities in polymer ablation as opposed to ablation of non-polymeric materials. Derivation of simplified equations for the surface and volume thermal ablation processes, which take into account arbitrary temporal dependence of laser pulse, thermal properties of the material and shielding of the laser radiation by ablation products.

93-94 Explanation and modeling of oscillations, discontinuous deposition and hysteresis with respect to the laser power and scanning velocity observed in laser direct writing from different gas phase precursors. Analysis of the growth of rods initiated by laser beam. Development of the fast algorithm for the calculation of temperature distributions in microprocessing which is dozens of times faster than conventional ones.

1993 Analytical modeling of a chain-ball model of an ion channel locker on the basis of diffusion in a potential field. The modeling of the switching between two conformations of a molecule as time-dependent behavior of Hopfield type neural network.

91-92 Investigation of temperature distribution in thermally thin deposit of arbitrary shape, formed as a result of laser pyrolytic decomposition of the precursors on insulating substrate, and computer modeling of laser direct writing on this basis.

89-90 Explanation and phenomenological description with computer simulation of spiral waves, observed in liquid layer of vanadium oxides during laser heating of vanadium. These waves are due to inhomogeneous distribution of surface tension coefficient in the plane of the layer. Investigation and computer modeling of oscillations, observed in cw-laser heating of metals due to gas phase diffusion limitation of oxygen supply and exothermic reaction of oxidation.

86-88 Theoretical description of traveling waves arising in chemically active gas or liquid mixture while irradiated with CW-laser beam, due to the difference in absorption of the constituents, their propagation and generation. Study of oscillations in inert gas mixture, illuminated with CW-laser radiation, due to the diffusion and temperature dependence of absorption.



Conference Presentations

- 8th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-07), September 24-28, 2007, Tenerife, Spain

- International Workshop on Laser-Interface Interactions and Laser Cleaning (LIILAC 2006), June 04-07, 2006, University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany)

- 7th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-03), October 5-10, 2003, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, Invited talk

- 3rd International Workshop on New Trends in Laser Cleaning (LASCLEAN III), October 3-4, 2003, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece

- Meeting of European TMR project #ERBFMRXCT98 0188 Laser Cleaning, November 14-17, 2002, J. Kepler University, Linz, Austria

- Advanced Laser Micro/Nano Processing meeting, September 30 -- October 01, 2002, Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany.

- 2002 European Material Research Society Spring meeting. Symposium D: Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Laser Materials. Strasbourg, France, June 18-21, 2002, Invited talk

- International Workshop on New Trends in Laser Cleaning II (NeToLaC2), June 13-14, 2002, Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Madrid (Spain) Invited talk

- Meeting of European TMR project #ERBFMRXCT98 0188 Laser Cleaning, November 30-December 1, 2001, University of Aix-Marseilles #2, Aix, France

- 6th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-01), October 1-5, 2001, Tsukuba, Japan

- Laser Cleaning Workshop within Laser Precision Micromanufacturing Conference (LPM2001), Data Storage Institute, May 16-18, 2001, Singapore, Invited talk

- Meeting of European TMR project #ERBFMRXCT98 0188 Laser Cleaning, May 4-6, 2001, BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung (Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing), Berlin, Germany

- SFB (Special research field) 345 Seminar, December 18, 2000, II Physical Institute, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

- 5th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-99), July 19-23, 1999, Göttingen, Germany

- 1998 European Material Research Society Spring meeting. Symposium G: Surface Processing: Laser, Lamp, Plasma. Strasbourg, France, June 16-19, 1998, Invited talk

- 2nd INTAS Workshop, Lecce, Italy, May 9-13, 1998

- Solid State Physics Seminar, September 4, 1997, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

- 4th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-97), July 21-25, 1997, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, USA

- III IUVSTA Workshop. Lasers in Surface Science and Thin Films. Kitzsteinhorn, Austria, May 26-30 1996.

- 1994 European Material Research Society Spring meeting. Symposium B: Photon-Assisted Processing of Surfaces and Thin Films. Strasbourg France, May 24-27 1994. Invited talk.

- Mathematics in biology meeting. Stony Brook, NY, USA, May 1993

- 5th all union Conference "Laser radiation and surfaces", Ovsiannoe, 1989, Invited talk

- 3rd all union Conference "LASERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS", Shatura, 1989

- 7th all union Conference "INTERACTION OF LIGHT WITH MATTER", Leningrad, 1988

- 5th all union Conference "LASER OPTICS", Leningrad, 1986



Presentations by co-authors

- 5th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-99), July 19-23, 1999, Göttingen, Germany

- 2nd Asian Photochemistry Conference, June 28-July 1, 1999, Yusong Learning Center of Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, Taejon, Korea

- 1998 CLEO-Europe meeting. Symposium 14: Lasers in Material Processing. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, September 13-18, 1998

- 4th International Conference “HIGH POWER Laser Ablation”, May 25-30, Santa Fe, CA, USA (1998)

- 6th International Workshop on Laser Physics (LPHYS-97), Prague, August 4-8, 1997

- 4th International Conference on Laser Ablation (COLA-97), July 21-25, 1997, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, USA

- IX International Conference-"Non-resonant Laser-Matter Interaction" (NLMI-9), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 1-3, 1996.

- 1996 European Material Research Society Spring meeting. Symposium K: Nanometric Phenomena Induced by Laser, Ion and Clusters Beams. Strasbourg (France), June 4-7, 1996.

- MRS Fall Meeting, 27-30 Oct. 1995, Boston, Mass. USA. Symposium: Advanced Laser Processing of Materials and Applications.

- 2nd International Conference on Photo-excited Processes and Applications (ICPEPA-95). Jerusalem, Israel, September 1995"
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