Faculty Profile
Vassiliy Lubchenko
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Office: Fleming, 212D
Contact: vas@uh.edu - 832-842-8853
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002; M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1995; M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1994
Our research concerns phase transitions and a variety of strongly non-equilibrium phenomena, with applications to materials science and biology. We are interested in the basic aspects of the structural glass transition in intermetallic compounds, the metal-insulator transition, strongly correlated electron fluids, and triboelectricity. Our biomedicine-related project focuses on the poorly understood phenomenon of mesoscopic aggregation in protein solutions, during which long-lived domains of a metastable protein-rich phase form, in conflict with standard notions of thermodynamics. Also, we have developed a free-energy based method of machine learning, with potential applications to structure prediction for complex inorganic solids and beyond.
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2011-2013
- NSF CAREER Award, 2010
- Beckman Young Investigator Award, 2008Postdoctoral Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2005
- Hovorka Fellowship, University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-1998