• M.A. (1996) M.Sc., Belorasion State University, Belarus
• Ph.D. (2007) University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US
• Employment:
  • 2003-2007 Graduate student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • 2005-2007 GRA, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM
  • 2008-present Director's PostDoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM

Research Interests:

• Photoexcitation in nanostructures: excitonic and vibronic effects;
• Nonadiabatic dynamics in nanostructures: elctron-phonon interactions;
• Selfassembly of bio- and nano-materials;
• Transport properties in amorphouse and selfassembled materials;

Selected Recent Publications:

1. S. Kilina, E. Badaeva, S. Tretiak, A. Saxena, A. Piryatinski, and A. Bishop Bright and Dark Excitons in Semiconductor Carbon Nanotubes Chem. Phys. Phys. Chem., in press (2009).
2. S. Kilina and O. Prezhdo Breaking the Phonon Bottleneck in PbSe and CdSe Quantum Dots: Time-Domain Density Functional Theory of Charge Carrier Relaxation ACS Nano,  3, 93 (2009).
3. D. Yarotski, S. Kilina, S. Tretiak, A. Balatsky, O. Prezhdo, and A. J. Taylor Scanning tunneling microscopy of DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes , Nano Lett.,  9, 12 (2009) .
4. S. Kilina, E. Batista, P. Yang, S. Tretiak, A. Saxena, R.L. Martin, and D. Smith Electronic Structure of Self-assembled Amorphous Polyfluorenes , ACS Nano,   2, 1381 (2008) .
5. S. Kilina, S. Tretiak, S. K. Doorn, Z. Luo, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, A. Piryatinski, A. Saxena, R.L. Martin, and A. R. Bishop Cross-polarized Excitons of Carbon Nanotubes Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA,   105, 6797 (2008).
6. S. Kilina, S. Tretiak, D. Yarotski, Jian-Xin Zhu, N. Modine, A. Taylor, and A. Balatsky Electronic Properties of DNA Base Molecules Adsorbed on a Metallic Surface J. Phys. Chem. C,   111, 14541 (2007) .
7. S. Kilina and S. Tretiak Excitonic and vibrational properties of single-walled semiconducting carbon nanotubes Adv. Func. Mat.,   17, 3405 (2007) .
8. S. Tretiak, S. Kilina, A. Piryatinski, A. Saxena, R. Martin, and A. Bishop, and S. Doorn Excitons and Peirls distortion in conjugated carbon nanotubes Nnao Lett.,   7, 86 (2007) .
9. A. Shreve, E. Haroz, S. Bachilo, R. Weisman, S. Tretiak, S. Kilina, and S. Doorn Determination of Exciton-Phonon Coupling Elements in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Raman Overtone Analysis Phys. Rev. Lett.,  98, 037405 (2007) .
10. P. Araujo, S. Doorn, S. Kilina, S. Tretiak, E. Einarsson, S. Maruyama, H. Chacham, M. Pimenta, and A. Jorio Third and fourth optical transitions in semiconducting carbon nanotubes Phys. Rev. Lett.,  98, 067401 (2007).