• Ph.D. (2012) Applied Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
• M.Sc. (2006) Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
• B.Sc. (2003) Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
• Employment:
  • 2013 - Present Postdoc, T-1/CNLS/CINT, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA
  • 2012 - 2013 Postdoc, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
  • 2012 - Internship, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Naboratory, Upton, NY, USA
  • 2006 - 2007 Junior Guest Researcher, Physics Department, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2003 - Research Assistant, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine

Research Interests:

• Electronic and Optical Properties of Organic Matter
• Graphene and Related Compounds
• Molecular Electronics

Selected Recent Publications:

1. L. Adamska, G. V. Nazin, S. K. Doorn, and S. Tretiak Self-Trapping of Charge Carriers in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes: Structural Analysis , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. XX, XX (2015). (link)
2. J. Liu, L. Adamska, S. K. Doorn, and S. Tretiak Singlet and triplet excitons and charge polarons in cycloparaphenylenes: a density functional theory study , Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 14613 (2015). (link)
3. Z. Ji, R. Wu, L. Adamska, S. K. Doorn, and S. Tretiak In-Situ Synthesis of Graphene Molecules on TiO2. Application in Sensitized Solar Cells , ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6, 20473 (2014). (link)
4. X. Ma, L. Adamska, H. Yamaguchi, S. E. Yalcin, S. Tretiak, S. K. Doorn, and H. Htoon Electronic Structure and Chemical Nature of Oxygen Dopant States in Carbon Nanotubes , ACS Nano 8, 10782 (2014). (link)
5. L. Adamska, I. Nayyar, H. Chen, A. K. Swan, S. K. Doorn, and S. Tretiak Self-trapping of excitons, violation of Condon approximation and efficient fluorescence in conjugated cycloparaphenylenes , Nano Lett. 14, 6539 (2014). (link)
6. L. Adamska, Y. Lin, A. J. Ross, M. Batzill, I. I. Oleynik Atomic and Electronic Structure of Simple Metal/Graphene and Complex Metal/Graphene/Metal Interfaces , Phys. Rev. B 85, 195443 (2012). (link)
7. L. Adamska, R. Addou, M. Batzill, I.I. Oleynik Atomic and Electronic Structure of Graphene/Sn/Ni(111) and Graphene/Sn/Cu(111) Surface Alloy Substrates , Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 051602 (2012). (link)
8. J. Lahiri, T. S. Miller, A. J. Ross, L. Adamska, I. I. Oleynik, and M. Batzill Graphene growth and stability at nickel surfaces , New J. Phys. 13, 025001 (2011). (link)
9. J. Lahiri, T. Miller, L. Adamska, I. I. Oleynik, and M. Batzill Graphene Growth on Ni(111) by Transformation of a Surface Carbide , Nano Lett. 11, 518 (2011). (link)
10. L. Adamska, M. A. Kozhushner, I. I. Oleynik Electron-Plasmon Interaction in Resonant Molecular Tunnel Junctions , Phys. Rev. B 81, 035404 (2010). (link)
11. I. Díez-Pérez, J. Hihath, Y. Lee, L. Yu, L. Adamska, M. A. Kozhushner, I. I. Oleynik, and N. J. Tao Rectification and stability of a single molecular diode with controlled orientation , Nat. Chem. 1, 635 (2009). (link)
12. J. S. Hummelshøj, D. D. Landis, J. Voss, T. Jiang, A. Tekin, N. Bork, M. Dulak, J. J. Mortensen, L. Adamska, (other co-authots), T. Bligaard, K. W. Jacobsen, J. K. Nørskov, and T. Vegge DFT based screening of novel alkali-transition metal borohydrites – a computational materials design project , J. Chem. Phys. 131, 014101 (2009). (link)
13. L. Adamska, M. B. Silva Neto, and C. Morais Smith Competing impurities and reentrant magnetism in La2-xSrxCu1-zZnzO4: The role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and XY anisotropies , Phys. Rev. B 75, 134507 (2007). (link)
14. L. V. Adamska, and A. M. Gavrilik Multi-Particle Correlations in qp-Bose Gas Model , J. Phys. A 37, 4787 (2004). (link)