Dr. Peter G. Vekilov

Department of Chemistry and Center for Microgravity and Materials Research
University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
phone: (256) 824-6892 (6050), fax: (256) 824-6944, e-mail: peter@cmmr.uah.edu

Personal

• born: March 10, 1963 in Sofia, Bulgaria; wife: Roumy, daughters: Elena, Dessy

  US Permanent Resident

Education

• Ph.D.	Chemistry	1991	Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
  	Dissertation title: Elementary processes of growth of the (101) face of ADP* crystals Adviser: Prof. Dr. Alexander A. Chernov
  M.S. with Honors	Chemistry	1985	Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  	Valedictorian, School of Chemistry (class of 180)}}

Employment

• 1998 -	Assistant Professor	Department of Chemistry, UAH
  1997 - 98	Research Scientist	Center for Microgravity and Materials Research, UAH
  1993 - 97	Research Associate	Center for Microgravity and Materials Research, UAH
  1992	Post-doctoral Fellow	Res. Inst. for Polymers and Textiles, Tsukuba, Japan
  1991 - 92	Researcher	Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Acad. Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  1987 - 91 and 1983 - 85	Research Assistant	Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Memberships

• Materials Research Society
  American Chemical Society
  American Association for Crystal Growth
  American Association for the Advancement of Science

Honors and Service to the Scientific Community

• Organizer, Symposium R: Morphology and Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces in Molecular and Colloid Systems, 2001 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, April, 2000, San Francisco, California
• Proceedings Editor, 8-th International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM-8) Destin, Florida, 2000
• Member, Program Committee, ICCBM - 8, Destin, Florida, 2000
• Session Chair, ICCBM - 8, Sandestin, Florida, May 2000.
• Session Chair, 2000 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, April, 2000, San Francisco, California
• Tutorial Instructor, 2000 MRS Spring Meeting, April, 2000, San Francisco, California
• Member, Program Committee, 11 American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ACCGE-11), Tuscon, AZ, 1999
• Session Chair, Protein Crystallization, ACCGE-11, Tuscon, AZ, 1999
• Discussion Leader, Protein Crystal Growth, Gordon Conference on Gravitational Effects in Physicochemical Systems, Henniker, New Hampshire, USA, 1999
• Discussion Leader, Atomic and Molecular Processes at Surfaces, Gordon Conference on Thin Films and Crystal Growth Mechanisms, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA, 1999
• Member, Program Committee, 1999 American Crystallographic Association Conference, Buffalo, NY
• International Union of Crystallography Young Scientist Award, Sixth International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, Hiroshima, Japan, 1995
• Session Chair, International Workshop on Protein Crystallization, Fukuyama, Japan, 1995
• Councilor, General Assembly of the International Organization for Crystal Growth, 1992-95
• Research Award by the International Human Frontiers Science Program, 1993
• Research Award by the Science and Technology Agency, Government of Japan, 1992
• First Prize in General Research Contest, Institute of Crystallography, RAS, 1990
• Shubnikov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1986
• M.S. Diploma with Honors, First of the Year in the School of Chemistry (class of 180), Moscow State University, 1985
• Gold Medal, Ministry of Highest Education of the USSR, 1984
• Participant, Twelfth International Chemical Olympiad, Linz, Austria, 1980

Peer Review

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Physical Review Letters
• Physical Review E
• Biophysical Journal
• Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
• Advances in Space Research
• Surface Science
• Acta Crystallographica Section D
• Journal of Crystal Growth
• NASA STAC program
• Canadian Space Agency

University Service

Teaching

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Ph.D. Students

Post-doctoral Associates

Fulbright Scholars Hosted

Collaborations

Domestic

Bill R. Thomas, USRA, Marshal SFC, Huntsville: protein purification and crystallization
Alexander A. Chernov, USRA, Marshal SFC, Huntsville: step bunching; microgravity effects
R. Michael Banish, Physics, UAH: space experimentation hardware
J. Iwan D. Alexander, Case Western: instabilities and crystallization
Joseph Ng, Biology, UAH: protein interactions and biological implications
James Baird: Chemistry, UAH: protein nucleation
Mischa Machius, UT-Southwestern, Dallas: crystallization tools for structural genomics
Rhoda Hirsch, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: hemoglobin C crystallization: related pathologies
Ronald Nagel, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: molecular mechanisms of sickle cell anemia

Foregn

Sevil Weinkauf, TU-Munich, Germany: molecular order, defects and solution flows; protein crystals
Juan Manual Garcia-Ruiz, Univ. of Granada, Spain: transport processes and protein crystal quality
Adalbert Bacher, TU-Munich, Germany: bio-nanotechnology; coupling of enzymes and semiconductors
Leonid Rashkovich, Moscow State Univ., Russia: molecular processes in two dimensions
Katsuo Tsukamoto, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan: interferometric techniques
Christo Nanev, Bulgarian Acad. Sci., Sofia, Bulgaria: solubility and nucleation

^* amonium dihydrogen phosphate