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Affiliation

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University

Qualifications

MEng, Zaporozhye State Technical University, Ukraine (1997)
PhD in Material Science, Zaporozhye State Technical University, Ukraine (2001)
Professional Engineer, Ontario (2015)

Research interests

Our group contributes to development, implementation, and application of atomistic parameter-free models that establish a relation between atomic structure and material properties of interest using minimal or no experimental input. The objective is to further advance microscopic approaches to simulation and invention of advanced functional materials including optoelectronic and quantum materials. Our current developments can be found on GitHub. They assist in the characterization of a material's effective band structure as perturbed by disorder, effective masses, electronic polarization, and topological properties.

Current openings in the group: see open vacancies.

Materials	Properties	Applications	Techniques
semiconductors (incl. lead-halide perovskites) 2D materials (transition metal dichalcogenides, group III-V) materials for chemical energy storage (e.g., rechargeable batteries) topological materials (characterization of Weyl semimetals, Z2 topological insulators, Chern number, Berry curvature)	formability and stability band structure conductivity impurity and defect levels photoluminescence surface structure adsorption of molecules at solid surfaces piezoelectricity	LED lasers solar cells rechargable batteries	density functional theory post DFT approximations (many-body GW) linear combination of atomic orbitals kinetic Monte Carlo

Former affiliations

2008 - 2014	Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute and Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Canada
2003 - 2008	Central Technology Laboratory, Material Science Center and Department of Physics, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
2000 - 2003	Dept of Aircraft and Manufacturing Engineering, Zaporizhzhya National Technical University, Ukraine

Contact

Address:	Dr. Oleg Rubel
	Department of Materials Science and Engineering
	McMaster University
	JHE 359, 1280 Main Street West
	Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8
	CANADA
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Tel:	+1-905-525-9140, ext. 24094
URL:	https://rubel75.github.io
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