Oleg Prezhdo
Professor of Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy, and Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California
Oleg Prezhdo obtained Diploma in Theoretical Chemistry from Kharkiv University, Ukraine, in the theory group dating back to Fock. He completed PhD within 4 years with Peter Rossky at UT-Austin. After a 1-year postdoc with John Tully at Yale, he joined University of Washington in 1998, achieving Associate and Full Professor in 2002 and 2005. In 2010 he was offered Senior Professorship at U. Rochester, and in 2014 moved to U. Southern California. He served as Editor in Journal of Physical Chemistry and Surface Science Reports. Currently, he is Executive Editor for Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Recipient of multiple national and international awards, he held invited professorships in France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Japan, and China. With over 450 papers and 400 invited talks, and H-index of 77, his research interests range from semiclassical physics and time-dependent DFT, to quantum dynamics and non-equilibrium processes in nanoscale, condensed matter and molecular systems.