Iurii TimrovProfessional employment
Postdoctoral researcherFebruary 2016 - presentAdvisor: Prof. Nicola MarzariPlace: STI IMX THEOS, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)Postdoctoral researcherJuly 2013 - January 2016Advisor: Prof. Stefano BaroniPlace: Condensed Matter Sector, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italy)Postdoctoral researcherApril 2013 - June 2013Advisor: Dr. Nathalie VastPlace: Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)
Education
PhDSeptember 2009 - March 2013Advisor: Dr. Nathalie Vast Place: Laboratoire des Solides Irradi'es, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, FranceTitle: Ab initio study of plasmons and electron-phonon coupling in bismuth: from free-carrier absorption towards a new method for electron energy-loss spectroscopyDate of defense: 27.03.2013Honors: PhD degree in physics with honors ("Tres honorable")Master in PhysicsSeptember 2008 - June 2009Place: Department of Theoretical Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)Honors: Master's degree with honorsBachelor in PhysicsSeptember 2004 - June 2008Place: Department of Theoretical Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)Honors: Bachelor's degree with honorsHigh School StudiesSeptember 1994 - June 2004Place: Collegium 11 (Chernigov, Ukraine)Honors: Honors degree with a Gold medal
Patrick MayorPatrick Mayor conducted his doctoral research on soft condensed matter physics at the Institute of Physics of Complex Matter at EPFL. His PhD thesis, entitled "Fluid and glassy phases of vibrated granular matter studied with a torsion oscillator", focused on the central concept of temperature in out-of-equilibrium systems, developing a method to probe these systems based on fundamental statistical mechanics theory. The experiment has become well known in the field and the research yielded several publications in major journals (including the cover page of Nature), a lot of Swiss and international media coverage, and won the EPFL doctorate award for the best thesis of year 2005 as well as the Charles Haenny prize.
As a post-doctoral fellow for 2 years at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, Patrick Mayor worked on impact phenomena in granular materials, supported by an SNSF grant. In parallel to his research activities, Patrick Mayor has taken an active role in teaching, and collaborated on various mathematics and physics classes.
In 2009, Patrick Mayor became the scientific coordinator Nano-Tera.ch, one of the largest Swiss federal programs funding research in engineering sciences, supporting 188 projects with a total budget of ~260 MCHF. He was in charge of the coordination, technical writing, dissemination and communication until the program's conclusion in 2018.
He is now the program manager for the MARVEL NCCR. He is in charge of internal communication within the MARVEL community, and deals with education and knowledge transfer activities.
