• B. S. in physics, Moscow institute of Physics and Technology, 1992
• M. S. in physics, Institute of Spectroscopy, Russia, 1994
• M. S. in chemistry, University of Rochester, NY, 1996
• Ph.D. in chemistry, University of Rochester, NY, 1998
• Postdoctoral Research:
  • University of Rochester, 1998-1999
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1999-2001
• Employment:
  • Technical Staff Member, T-12, 2001-present

Research Interests:

• Relation between optical and chemical properties of organic and semiconductor materials
• Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
• Molecular dynamics of the excited states
• Charge and energy transfer in biological and artificial antenna complexes
• Ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy; Nonlinear dynamics of complex classical and quantum systems

Selected Recent Publications:

1. A.M. Masunov, S. Tretiak Prediction of two-photon absorption properties for organic chromophores using time-dependent density-functional theory, J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 899 (2004).
2. I. Franco and S. Tretiak Electron-vibrational dynamics of photoexcited polyfluorenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 12130 (2004).
3. S. Tretiak, A. Saxena, R.L. Martin, A.R. Bishop Photoexcited breathers in conjugated polyenes: An excited-state molecular dynamics study, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 2185 (2003).
4. S. Tretiak, A. Saxena, R.L. Martin, A.R. Bishop Conformational dynamics of photoexcited conjugated molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 097402 (2002).