Biographie
Artem Abakumov graduated from the Department of Chemistry at Moscow State University in 1993 and obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the same University in 1997. He spent about three years as a postdoctoral fellow and invited professor in the Electron Microscopy for Materials Research (EMAT) laboratory at University of Antwerp and joined EMAT as a research leader in 2008. Since 2015 he holds a Full Professor position at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow. His research is focused at crystal and defect structures of inorganic solids and linking this knowledge to designing new materials and getting deeper insight into their functional properties. His interests comprise materials for metal-ion batteries, magnetic and ferroelectric complex oxides, incommensurately modulated and composite structures, conventional and multidimensional crystallography, structure analysis using a combination of transmission electron microscopy, synchrotron X-ray and neutron powder diffraction.