Biographie

Prof. Oleg Yazyev (Олег Язев) was born in Simferopol, Crimean peninsula. He obtained his degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 2003. He then joined Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) completing his PhD thesis in chemistry and chemical engineering in 2007. Next two years he has spent as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) and the Institute for Numerical Research in the Physics of Materials (IRRMA) of the same institution. In 2009-2011 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In September 2011 he started an independent research group supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation professorship grant. In 2012 he was awarded an ERC Starting grant. His current research focuses on theoretical and computational physics of the recently discovered Dirac fermion materials with strong emphasis on their prospective technological applications.
 
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RESEARCH

 Condensed matter theory research in graphene and topological insulators
 
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

O. V. Yazyev and S. G. Louie, "Electronic transport in polycrystalline graphene", Nature Materials 9, 806 (2010) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev, J. E. Moore, and S. G. Louie, "Spin Polarization and Transport of Surface States in the Topological Insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 from First Principles", Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 266806 (2010) [web link::arXiv]

C. Tao, L. Jiao, O. V. Yazyev, Y.-C. Chen, J. Feng, X. Zhang, R. B. Capaz, J. M. Tour, A. Zettl, S. G. Louie, H. Dai, and M. F. Crommie, "Spatially resolving edge states of chiral graphene nanoribbons", Nature Physics 7, 616 (2011) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev and S. G. Louie, "Topological defects in graphene: Dislocations and grain boundaries", Phys. Rev. B 81, 195420 (2010) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev, "Emergence of magnetism in graphene materials and nanostructures", Rep. Prog. Phys. 73, 056501 (2010) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev and L. Helm, "Defect-induced magnetism in graphene", Phys. Rev. B 75, 125408 (2007) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev, "Magnetism in Disordered Graphene and Irradiated Graphite", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037203 (2008) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev and M. I. Katsnelson, "Magnetic Correlations at Graphene Edges: Basis for Novel Spintronics Devices", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047209 (2008) [web link::arXiv]

O. V. Yazyev, "Hyperfine Interactions in Graphene and Related Carbon Nanostructures", Nano Lett. 8, 1011 (2008) [web link::arXiv]