Golibjon Berdiyorov | Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Golibjon Berdiyorov

Dr. Golibjon Berdiyorov (PhD)


Senior Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

  • Phone+974 4454 67 04
  • Office locationB2-0460, HBKU Research Complex

Biography

Golibjon Berdiyorov is currently a senior scientist at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained his Diploma in Physics at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan in 1998. He defended his PhD thesis in 2007 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His thesis was about computational study of parameters of superconducting materials under external electrictromagnetic fields. After his PhD he did postdoctoral research for several years, where he learned different computer simulation methods starting from first-principle density functional theory to continuum models for large scale simulations. 

His current research interest is in theoretical materials science for energy, wqater and environmental applications. In particular he is interested in predicting novel and functional materials for photovoltaics, water desalination and carbon capture and storage applications.

During his Assistant Professor position at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, he was heavily involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. 

 


Research Interests

  • Theoretical aspects of rectenna-based solar cell development: predictive modelling for i) geometry diodes made of low-dimensional materials (e.g., graphene), ii) CNT-based diodes and iii) molecular diodes.
  • Materials screening for molecular electronics: revealing the effects of anchoring groups, molecular backbone and intermolecular interactions on the electronic, optical and transport properties of molecular junctions from the first-principles calculations.
  • Atomistic simulations for molecular self-assembly-based anticorrosive layer deposition/development.
  • Exploring the gas sensing properties of low-dimensional functional materials (e.g., graphene, CNT, MXene).
  • Metal-ion battery research: predictive modeling for electrodes.
  • Thermoelectric properties of low-dimensional materials: predictions from the first-principles calculations.
  • Spin-dependent quantum transport calculations for spintronics applications.
  • Perovskite solar cell development: prediction from the first-principles simulations to improve the operational stability and efficiency of the devices.
  • Exploring the potential of low-dimensional materials (graphene, CNT and MXene) for water purification applications using computer simulations.
  • Catalytic water splitting using nanostructured systems.
  • Density functional theory (DFT) for structural, electronic, and optical properties of low-dimensional and molecular systems.
  • Phonon calculations for structural stability.
  • Nudged elastic band calculations and transition state analysis.
  • Quantum transport calculations using nonequilibrium Green’s functional formalism in combination with DFT.
  • DFT-based molecular dynamics calculations.
  • Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics calculations.
  • Adaptive Kinetic and time-stamped force-bias Monte Carlo simulations for potential landscape analysis.
  • Classical and Reactive force-field based molecular dynamics simulations.
  • Home-made parallel codes for solution of coupled differential equations from mean field theories (time-dependent Ginzburg-landau equations combined with heat transfer equation, Sine-Gordon equations).

Experience

Senior Scientist

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

July 2019 - Present
  • Scientist

    Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

    July 2014 – July 2019
  • Assistant Professor of Physics

    College of Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

    August 2013 – July 2014
  • Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Department of Physics

    Loughborough University, UK

    October 2012 – August 2013
  • Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Postdoctoral researcher

    Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

    October 2007 - September 2012
  • Visiting Scholar

    Argonne National Laboratory, USA

    August 2011 - August 2012
  • Visiting Scholar

    Northern Illinois University, USA

    March 2009 - May 2010
  • Visiting Scholar

    Atomic Center of Bariloche, Argentina

    October 2009
  • Research Assistant

    Institute of Applied Physics, National University of Uzbekistan.

    June 1998 - September 2002

Education

PhD in Computational Physics

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Sept. 2007
  • Honored Diploma in Physics

    Tashkent State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    June 1998

Selected Publications

  • Y. Tong, G. R. Berdiyorov, A. Sinopoli, M. E. Madjet, V. A. Esaulov, H. Hamoudi

    An estimation on the mechanical stabilities of SAMs by low energy Ar+ cluster ion collision, Scientific reports 11, 12772 (2021).

    2021
  • H.-G. Duan, V. Tiwari, A. Jha, G. R. Berdiyorov, A. Akimov, O. Vendrell, P. K. Nayak, H. J. Snaith, M. Thorwart, Z. Li, M. E. Madjet, R. J. D. Miller

    Photoinduced Vibrations Drive Ultrafast Structural Distortion in Lead Halide Perovskite, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, 16569-16578 (2020).

    2020
  • F. El-Mellouhi, M. E. Madjet, G. R. Berdiyorov, E. T. Bentria, S. N. Rashkeev, S. Kais, A. Akande, C. Motta, S. Sanvito, and F. H. Alharbi

    Enhancing the electronic dimensionality of hybrid organic-inorganic frameworks by hydrogen bonded molecular cations, Mater. Horiz. 6, 1187-1196 (2019) (SIF 13.183).

    2019
  • I. Khan, A. Qurashi, G. Berdiyorov, N. Iqbal, K. Fuji, and Z. H. Yamani

    Single-step strategy for the fabrication of GaON/ZnO nanoarchitectured photoanode their experimental and computational photoelectrochemical water splitting, Nano Energy 44, 23-33 (2018).

    2018
  • M. E. Madjet, G. R. Berdiyorov, F. El-Mellouhi, F. H. Alharbi, A. V. Akimov, and S. Kais

    Cation Effect on Hot Carrier Cooling in Halide Perovskite Materials, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 4439–4445 (2017).

    2017
  • G. R. Berdiyorov, M. Neek Amal, I. A. Hussein, M. El Amine Madjet, and F. M. Peeters

    Large CO2 uptake on a monolayer of CaO, J. Mater. Chem. A 5, 2110-2114 (2017).

    2017
  • F. El‐Mellouhi, A. Akande, C. Motta, S. N. Rashkeev, G. R. Berdiyorov, M. El‐Amine Madjet, A. Marzouk, El Tayeb Bentria, S. Sanvito, S. Kais, F. H. Alharbi

    Solar Cell Materials by Design: Hybrid Pyroxene Corner-Sharing VO4 Tetrahedral Chains, ChemSusChem 10, 1931-942 (2017).

    2017
  • M. L. Latimer, G. R. Berdiyorov, Z. L. Xiao, W. K. Kwok, and F. M. Peeters

    Realization of Artificial Ice Systems for Magnetic Vortices in a Superconducting MoGe Thin Film with Patterned Nanostructures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 067001 (2013).

    2013
  • L. -F. Zhang, L. Covaci, M. V. Milošević, G. R. Berdiyorov, and F. M. Peeters

    Unconventional vortex states in nanoscale superconductors due to shape-induced resonances in the inhomogeneous Cooper-pair condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 107001 (2012).

    2012
  • M. V. Milošević, G. R. Berdiyorov, and F. M. Peeters

    Mesoscopic field and current compensator based on a hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet structure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 147004 (2005).

    2005