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Links through Dr. Pakoulev's Curriculum Vitae:
Education
Research and Professional Positions
Other Professional Activities and Memberships
Areas of Research Interest and Professional Experience
Patents and Publications
Press Releases
e-mail: pakoulev@chem.wisc.edu
Education:
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1999 Ph. D.,
Department of Physics,
Supervisors: Prof. N.I. Koroteev, Dr. A.P. Shkourinov, Dr. A.V.
Sharkov.
Thesis
title:
Femtosecond
Laser Spectroscopy of
Photochromic Compounds: Temporal Dynamics of the Amplitude Nonlinear
Response.
1984 M. Sc.,
Department for Problems of Physics and Power Engineering,
Supervisor: Dr. A.V. Sharkov.
Thesis
title: Subpicosecond Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin.
Research
and Professional Positions
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2007 – Present Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2003
– 2007 Research
Associate, University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
2000
– 2003
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
1992
– 2000 Research
Scientist,
1999 Visiting Scholar,
Institute for Spectroscopy and Applied Spectrochemistry,
1995
– 98
Visiting Scholar, multiple
visits.
1994 – 99
Instructor,
Practical Course on Electronics,
1990 – 91
Chief Engineer, Quantum Optics
Division, Center for Business and Social Initiatives,
Russian
1989
– 90
Senior Engineer, Scientific
Producer’s Cooperative ‘Vector’,
1984
– 89
Research Engineer, Central
Institute for Machine-Building, Korolev,
1981 – 84
Research Assistant, Institute for Spectroscopy,
Other
Professional Activities:
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Reviewer for Biochemistry (
Scientific Consultant for Optodot
Corporation,
Scientific Consultant for TriD Store,
(Russian Branch),
Students:
3 M.Sc.
Graduate Students supervised and theses completed (
Professional
Society Memberships:
American Physical Society.
Optical
Society of
Areas
of Research Interest and Professional Experience:
Nonlinear spectroscopy:
--ultrafast coherent
multidimensional
spectroscopy: doubly and triply resonant mixed frequency-time domain
approach;
--picosecond time and frequency resolved infrared-Raman spectroscopy;
--femtosecond pump-probe
spectroscopy: transient
absorption, time-resolved fluorescence;
--second harmonic and sum frequency
generation
in chiral media and at the surface.
Chemical physics and
biophysics:
--coherent intramolecular vibrational
and
electronic coupling;
--vibrational energy transfer in
polyatomic
molecules;
--photo-physics and photochemistry of
photochromic compounds in UV/visible and near-IR region;
--primary events, charge transfer and
nonlinear
properties of photochromic proteins.
Material
science:
--electron transfer in artificial
photosynthetic
systems and photovoltaic sells;
--electro-optical properties of
organic
semiconductors and self-assembled monolayers;
--nonlinear optical spectroscopy of
molecular
nanostructures.
Laser physics:
design and development of femtosecond and picosecond laser systems,
diode laser
systems, sources of
ultrashort IR
and microwave (THz) pulses.
Linear spectroscopy: UV/visible
absorption and luminescence; FTIR spectroscopy, Raman and microwave spectrometers, polarization
spectroscopy.
Theoretical research and
computer simulations:
--nonlinear optical phenomena and
spectral
dynamics (FORTRAN, MatLab, Mathcad);
--ab-initio calculations of molecular
isomerization and vibrational dynamics (GAUSSIAN).
Patents:
1.
Magnitskii, S.;
Magnitskii, N.; Malkin, J.; Levich, E.; Tarasishin, A.; Pakulev,
A.;
Angeluts, A.; Malakhov, D.V.; Shubin, V.; Kozenkov, V.;
Kvasha, M.;
Binjukov, V.; Sokoljuk, N.; Chernobrod, B.; Lezhnev, A.;
Dorozhkina, G.;
Pebalk, D.
Apparatus for information retrieval from a multilayer fluorescent
optical clear
card.
2.
Magnitskii, S.;
Magnitskii, N.; Malkin, J.; Levich, E.; Tarasishin, A.; Pakulev,
A.;
Angeluts, A.; Malakhov, D.V.; Shubin, V.; Kozenkov, V.;
Kvasha, M.;
Binjukov, V.; Sokoljuk, N.; Chernobrod, B.; Lezhnev, A.;
Dorozhkina, G.;
Pebalk, D.
Medium for fluorescent read-only multilayer optical information carrier
and its
manufacturing method.
3. Alexeev,
А.А.; Belyaev, V.S.; Komissarov, A.V.; Pakulev,
A.V.
Source of Ultra-Short Optical Pulses.
Patent of
4. Alexeev,
А.А.; Belyaev, V.S.; Komissarov, A.V.; Pakulev,
A.V.
Method for Determination of Laser Pulse Duration.
Patent of
Publications:
1. Pakoulev, A. V.; Rickard, M. A.; Mathew, N. A.; Kornau,
K. M.; Wright,
J. C.
Spectral Quantum Beating in Mixed
Frequency/Time-domain Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A,
111 (30): 6999-7005, 2007.
2.
Pang, Y.; Deak, J. C.; Huang, W.
T.; Lagutchev, A.; Pakoulev, A.;
Patterson, J. E.;
Sechler, T. D.; Wang, Z. H.; Dlott, D. D.
Vibrational
Energy in Molecules Probed with High Time and Space Resolution.
International
Reviews in Physical Chemistry 26 (1): 223-248, 2007.
3.
Rickard,
M. A.; Pakoulev, A. V.;
Mathew,
N. A., Kornau, K. M.; Wright, J. C.
Frequency- and Time-Resolved Coherence
Transfer Spectroscopy.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111 (7):1163-1166, 2007.
4.
Rickard, M. A.; Pakoulev,
A. V.; Kornau, K.; Mathew, N. A.; Wright, J. C.
Interferometric Coherence Transfer Modulations in Triply Vibrationally
Enhanced
Four-Wave Mixing.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 110 (40): 11384-11387, 2006.
5.
Pakoulev, A. V.; Rickard, M. A.; Meyer, K.A.;
Kornau, K.;
Thompson, D.C.; Wright J. C.
Mixed
Frequency/Time Domain Optical
Analogues of Heteronuclear Multidimensional NMR.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 110 (10): 3352-3355, 2006.
6.
Wang, Zh.; Pakoulev, A.;
Pang, Y.; Dlott, D.-D.
Vibrational Substructure in the OH Stretching Transition of Water and
HOD
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108 (42): 9054
– 9063, 2004.
7.
Zaslavsky
D.; Pakoulev,
A.; Burtman, V.
Free Energy Driven Transfer of Charge in Dense Electrochemically Active
Monomolecular Films.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108 (40): 15815-15819, 2004.
8.
Wang Zh.; Pakoulev,
A.; Pang, Y.; Dlott, D.-D.
Three-dimensional spectroscopy of vibrational energy relaxation in
liquids.
Femtochemistry and Femtobiology: Ultrafast Events in Molecular
Science. /
Eds M.M. Martin, J.T. Hynes. Elsevier Science,
2004, pp.169-176.
9. Pakoulev, A.; Wang, Zh.; Pang, Y.; Dlott, D.-D.
Reply to: Comment on 'Vibrational relaxation and spectral diffusion
following
ultrafast OH stretch excitation of water', by H.J. Bakker, A.J. Lock,
D.
Madsen.
Chemical Physics Letters, 385 (3): 332-335, 2004.
10. Pakoulev A.; Wang Zh.; Pang Y.; Dlott D.-D.
Vibrational energy relaxation pathways of water.
Chemical Physics Letters, 380 (3-4): 404-410, 2003.
11.
Wang Zh.; Pakoulev,
A.; Pang, Y.; Dlott, D.-D.
Vibrational substructure in the OH stretching band of water.
Chemical Physics Letters, 378 (3-4): 281-288, 2003.
12. Pakoulev, A.; Wang Zh.; Dlott, D.
Vibrational relaxation and spectral evolution following ultrafast
OH-stretch
excitation of water.
Chemical Physics Letters, 371 (5-6): 594-600, 2003.
13.
Wang, Zh.; Pakoulev,
A.; Dlott, D.
Watching vibrational energy transfer in liquids with atomic spatial
resolution.
Science, 296 (5576): 2201-2203, 2002.
14.
Margetic, V.; Pakulev,
A.; Stockhaus, A.; Bolshov, M.; Niemax, K.; Hergenroder R.
A Comparison of Nanosecond and
Femtosecond Laser-Induced Plasma Spectroscopy of Brass Samples.
Spectrochimica Acta Part B - Atomic Spectroscopy B55 (11):
1771-1785, 2000.
15.
Belyaev, V.S.; Vinogradov, V.I.;
Kurilov, A.S.;
Matafonov, A.P.; Pakulev, A.V.; Yashin, V.E.
Measurement of Ultrashort-Radiation Parameters by the Method of
Chirped-Pulse
Spectral Interferometry.
Quantum Electronics, 30(3): 229-235, 2000.
16.
Alfimov, M.V.; Balakin, A.V.;
Gromov, S.P.;
Zaushitsyn, Y.V.; Fedorova, O.A.; Koroteev, N.I.; Pakulev, A.V.;
Resnyanskii A.Y.; Shkurinov, A.P.
Femtosecond Spectrochronography of the Reverse Photochromic Transition
in
Derivatives of Spiro Compounds.
Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry 73 (10): 1685-1694, 1999.
17.
Angeluts, A.A.; Balakin, A.V.;
Boucher, D.; Il'ina,
I.G.; Koroteev, N.I.; Masselin, P.; Mikhalev, O.V.; Pakulev, A.V.;
Fertein, E.; Shkurinov, A.P.
Second Harmonic Generation upon Reflection of Light from the Surface of
Solution of Mirror-Asymmetric Molecules: A New Tool for Studies of
Molecular
Chirality.
Optics and Spectroscopy, 87(1): 151-156, 1999.
18.
Pakoulev, A.V.
Femtosecond Laser Spectrochronography of Photochromic Compounds:
Temporal
Dynamics of the Amplitude Nonlinear Response. Ph.D. Thesis.
19.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher,
D.; Fertein, E.;
Koroteev, N.I.; Masselin, P.; Pakulev, A.V.;
Shkurinov, A.P.
Spectral Dependence of the Excitation of the "Forbidden" Second
Optical Harmonic in an Aqueous Suspension of Purple Membranes by
Femtosecond
Laser Pulses under the Electronic Resonance Conditions.
JETP Letters, 67(4): 269 – 274,
1998.
20.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher, D.; Dunin,
A.S.; Fertein, E.;
Koroteev, N.I.; Masselin, P.; Pakulev, A.V.;
Shkurinov A.P.
Even-Order Nonlinear Interaction of Focused Femtosecond Beam with the
Bulk of
Chiral Media.
Ultrafast Phenomena XI. / Eds T. Elsaesser,
J.G. Fujimoto,
D.A. Wiersma, W. Zinth.
Springer-Verlag,
Springer Series in
Chemical Physics, v. 63, pp.124-126, 1998.
21.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher, D.;
Fertein, E.; Masselin, P.;
Pakulev, A.V.; Resniansky, A.Yu.; Shkurinov, A.P.;
Koroteev, N. I.
Experimental Observation of the Interference of Three- and Five-Wave
Mixing
Processes into the Signal of Second Harmonic Generation in
Bacteriorhodopsin
Solution.
Optics Communications 141 (5,6):
343-352, 1997.
22.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher, D.;
Fertein, E.; Masselin, P.;
Pakulev, A.V.; Shkurinov, A.P.; Koroteev, N.I.
“Forbidden” Second
Harmonic Generation in Bacteriorhodopsin: Stedy-State and Time-Resolved
Studies.
Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules: Modern Trends. / Eds
P. Carmona,
R. Navarro, A. Hernanz.
23.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher, D.;
Fertein, E.; Koroteev,
N.I.; Masselin, P.; Pakulev, A.V.;
Shkurinov, A.P.
Polarization Characteristics of the "Forbidden'' Second Optical
Harmonic
of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in a Bacteriorhodopsin Solution.
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics 85(1): 52-60,
1997.
24.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher D., Fertein
E., Koroteev N.I.,
Masselin, P.; Pakulev, A.V.; Shkurinov A.P.
Forbidden Second Harmonic Generation in Bacteriorhodopsin: Steady-State
and
Time-Resolved Studies.
OSA Technical Digest Series, 12: 197‑198, 1997.
25.
Balakin, A.V.; Boucher, D.;
Fertein, E.; Koroteev,
N.I.; Masselin, P.; Pakulev, A.V.; Shkurinov A.P.
Experimental Observation of the Interference of Three‑ and Five‑Wave
Mixing
Processes in Optical Second Harmonic Generation in a Solution of
Bacteriorhodopsin.
JETP Letters 64 (10): 718‑723, 1996.
26.
Angelutc, A.A.; Balakin,
A.V.; Koroteev,
N.I.; Ozheredov, I.A.; Pakulev, A.V.; Resniansky,
A.Yu.;
Shkurinov A.P.
Optical Harmonic Generation from Chiral Surfaces with Femtosecond Laser
Pulses.
Ultrafast Processes in Spectroscopy. Eds O. Svelto,
S. De Silvestri,
G. Denardo. Plenum Press, 391-394, 1996.
27.
Koroteev, N.I.; Makarov, V.A.;
Shkurinov, A.P.; Pakulev,
A.V., Angelutc, A.A.; Resniansky, A.Yu.; Balakin A.V.
Nonlinear Optical Effects in the Bulk and at the Surface of Acentric
Liquids
Demonstrating Natural Optical Activity.
OSA Technical Digest Series, 12: 197‑198, 1997.
28. Angelutc, A.A.; Kobelev, D.Yu.;
Krindach, D.P.; Pakulev,
A.V.
Self-Modulation of the Unsaturated Gain in a Femtosecond Ti :Sapphire
Laser.
Quantum
Electronics 25(11):
1063-1066, 1995.
29.
Angeluts, A. A.; Krindach, D. P.; Pakulev,
A.V.;
Surmii, V.I.
Modulation Processes and Characteristics of Radiation of a Femtosecond
Ti:Sapphire Laser.
Bulletin of the
30.
Angelutz, A.A.; Krindach, D.P.; Pakulev
A.V.;
Surmii V.I.
Kerr-Lens Modulation Processes in Femtosecond Ti-Sapphire Laser.
SPIE Proceedings Series 2095:
73-76,
1993.
31.
Sharkov, A.V.; Pakulev,
A.V.; Chekalin, S.V.;
Matveets, Yu.A.
Primary Events in Bacteriorhodopsin Probed by Subpicosecond
Spectroscopy.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 808(1): 94-102, 1985.
32.
Sharkov A.V.;
Matveets Yu.A.; Chekalin S.V.; Pakulev A.V.
Subpicosecond Spectroscopy of Bacteriorhodopsin.
Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 281(2), 466-70, 1985. (Written in
Russian)
1.
Spectroscopy Tracks Vibrational
Energy in Liquids.
Photonics Spectra. September 2002, p. 25-26.
2.
Vibrational Energy Flows through
Bonds.
Chemical&Engeneering News. V.80, Number 25 (
3.
Shaking molecules by their tails.
Science. Highlights of research in this issue. V.
296, No. 5576,
4. UI Researchers Taking the Mystery
out of Molecules.
The News-Gazette.