Dr. Artem Bakulin

Biography

Artem Bakulin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the photophysics of organic optoelectronic materials and nanodevices. He develops state-of-the-art ultrafast laser spectroscopy tools to observe and control molecular-scale dynamics in plastic solar cells, flexible transistors, quantum-dot photodetectors, and functional nanosystems. His prospective work includes investigating charge-transport properties in proteins, ultrafast switching in organic transistors, and time-resolved spectroscopy at the single-molecule scale. Bakulin completed his undergraduate degree at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2005 and earned his PhD from the University of Groningen in 2009. He was awarded a Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2010 and joined the University of Cambridge, later receiving the NWO Veni fellowship carried out at the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam. He returned to Cambridge in 2014 and moved to Imperial College in 2016 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and ERC Starting Grant holder. Bakulin has received notable awards, including the Marlow Award in 2018 from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2019 from the Leverhulme Trust. He welcomes enthusiastic students and postdocs interested in exploring frontier problems in nanoscale physics and physical chemistry.

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