Information
Membership Number: FCA2120
Membership Type: Fellowship
Division: Natural Sciences
Corresponding Email: A.Oganov@skoltech.ru
Homepage(s): https://uspex-team.org
https://faculty.skoltech.ru/people/artemoganov
"I am delighted to have been elected as a Fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities. This is a recognition of not only my own works, but also of the whole field of crystal structure prediction that my works helped to advance to a new level, making it an essential tool for predicting new materials with unique properties. In recent years I had extended this to variable-composition systems, surfaces, nanoparticles and molecules, and proteins. An important direction of my research deals with explanations of chemistry at normal and extreme conditions. This includes new scales of electronegativity and chemical hardness (also extended to high pressures)."
Present and Previous Positions
2024-now: Distinguished Professor, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
2015-2024: Professor, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
2021-2024: Head of Laboratory of Crystal Chemistry, Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2020-2024: Professor, MISIS University, Moscow, Russia (from 2021 – Head of Department of Semiconductors and Dielectrics).
2017: Founded and directed (until 2020) the International Center for Materials Discovery, Northwestern Polytechnical University (China)
2013-2020: Head of Laboratory and Professor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
2008-2017: Professor (2010-2017) and Associate Professor (2008-2010), Dept. Geosciences & Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences, Stony Brook University, U.S.A.
2007: Habilitation, Dept. Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - in 2016 accepted as equivalent to Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Russian highest degree)
2003-2008: Senior scientist (2003-2007) and Privatdozent (2007-2008), Dept. Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2002-2003: Research Fellow, University College London, U.K.
2002: PhD in Crystallography, University College London, U.K.
1997: M.Sc. in Crystallography, Moscow State University, magna summa cum laude.
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Mineral physics and high-pressure behavior of minerals
Crystal structure prediction and computational materials discovery
Quantum-mechanical simulations
High-pressure chemistry
Earth's mantle and core. Planetary interiors
Prof. Oganov’s most important works are in the fields of computational materials discovery, in particular the effects of pressure on chemical bonding, and the state of matter at extreme conditions (e.g. inside the Earth and other planets). He has developed novel and highly efficient methods of crystal structure prediction that became the basis of the USPEX code. used by more than 10000 researchers worldwide. Among the highlights are the discovery of the structure of a superhard phase of boron, gamma-B, transparent phase of sodium, new carbon allotrope, prediction of MgSiO3 post-perovskite and its stability in the Earth's mantle, prediction of other planet-forming minerals, prediction and synthesis of "forbidden" compounds (e.g., Na3Cl), the discovery of helium chemistry under pressure, and creation of borophene - a 2D-monolayer of boron atoms, with great promises for future technologies. Oganov has proposed new scales of electronegativities and chemical hardnesses of the chemical elements, extended to high pressures. Oganov and colleagues were able to explain many unusual phenomena of high-pressure chemistry, as well as predict new phenomena and compounds. Prediction of the new high-pressure hydrous compound Mg2SiO5H2 has inspired a new hypothesis on the origin of the Earth's hydrosphere. Oganov and colleagues have predicted and studied (theoretically and experimentally) a number of novel superconductors, which are among the highest-temperature superconductors known to date: ThH10 and ThH9, YH6, (La, Y)H6 and (La, Y)H10. Computational methods developed by Oganov open up the way to the discovery of materials with desired properties, thus laying the foundation of computational materials discovery – a new booming field of science.
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
2024: Fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2024: Znanie Award in two nominations (1 - for popularizing science and technologies, 2 – for general contribution to education)
2023: “For the commitment to science” National Award for popularization of science
2022: Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
2020: Fellow of the American Physical Society
2020: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2019-: every year after 2019 ranked in the top 2% of most cited scientists (Elsevier)
2019: Friendship Award of the Chinese government
2017: George Gamow award
2017: Concord award
2017: Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E.)
2017: Russian Highly Cited Researcher in Physics (Clarivate Analytics)
2017: Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidential Visiting Fellowship
2017: Paper (J. Chem. Phys. 2006) declared citation classic by Google Scholar
2016: Russian Highly Cited Researcher Award (Chemistry), by Clarivate Analytics
2015: Japan Society for Promotion of Science Invitation Fellow
2015: Professor of Russian Academy of Sciences
2013: Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
2013: Megagrant of the Russian government
2012: 1000 talents professor of People’s Republic of China
2012: Honorary Professor, Yanshan University, China
2007: Research Excellence Medal of the European Mineralogical Union
2006: University Latsis Prize
2004: European High-Pressure Research Group Award
2003: Young Scientist Award of the European Union of Geosciences
2002: President's Award of the Geological Society of London
Selected Publications
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Artem-Oganov
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1aqQ8ioAAAAJ&hl=en
Three selected papers:
[1] Oganov A.R., Glass C.W. (2006). Crystal structure prediction using ab initio evolutionary techniques: principles and applications. J. Chem. Phys. 124, 244704.
[2] Dong X., Oganov A.R., Cui H., Zhou X.-F., Wang H.-T. (2022). Electronegativity and chemical hardness of the elements under pressure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119, e2117416119.
[3] Lepeshkin S.V., Naumova A.S., Baturin V.S., Oganov A.R. (2022). “Magic” molecules and a new look at chemical diversity of hydrocarbons. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 7600-7606.
Other Information
https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Oganov_Artem