Summary
I am a theoretician working on a wide range of topics in molecular spectroscopy, from ab intitio many-body theory of attosecond electron dynamics to biomolecular mass spectrometry
in the field of attosecond physics. I study fundamental ultrafast electronic processes that occur in molecules and clusters following excitation and/or ionisation, for example by a laser pulse. These electronic transitions, such as Auger decay, interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay (ICD) and others, are driven by electron-electron interaction and are the basic manifestation of the electron correlation in nature. They are of high practical importance for estimation and understanding of the radiation damage done by high-frequency radiation. My group is developing and using first principles many-electron theoretical methods to investigate the complex dynamics of the known electronic rearrangements and to predict new physical phenomena of this type. The ab initio computational method developed in my group recently, B-spline algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC), allows us to look inside the radiative and non-radiative many-electron transitions in order to study the onset and the effect of quantum coherence on these phenomena.
More recently, I have become interested in bioinformatics, especially in the numerical simulations and software development for the new type of biomolecular mass spectrometry.
I was an EPSRC Research Fellow in 2010-2015, was appointed a Lecturer in 2011, Senior Lecturer in 2014, Reader in Molecular Physics in 2018 and Professor of Molecular Physics in 2022 .
Commercial activity
Scientific Consultant, Maxeler Technologies Ltd, London (now part of Groq, US). Brokering and supervising technological development projects with Imperial College London (Chemistry, Physics), The Institute of Cancer, CERN, European XFEL, UK and foreign government.
Teaching
2011-2019 Linear Algebra module in the Mathematics for Controlled Quantum Dynamics course for the CDT students
2011-2014 Quantum Optics (Year 3, together with Jon Marangos)
2015-2019 Group Theory (Year 3)
2020-present Complex Analysis (Year 1)
Publications
Journals
Driver T, Pipkorn R, Averbukh V, et al., 2023, Identification of Cofragmented Combinatorial Peptide Isomers by Two-Dimensional Partial Covariance Mass Spectrometry., J Am Soc Mass Spectrom, Vol:34, Pages:1230-1234
Ruberti M, Averbukh V, 2023, Advances in modeling attosecond electron dynamics in molecular photoionization, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, ISSN:1759-0876
Schwickert D, Ruberti M, Kolorenc P, et al., 2022, Charge-induced chemical dynamics in glycine probed with time-resolved Auger electron spectroscopy, Structural Dynamics-us, Vol:9
Tarrant J, Khokhlova M, Averbukh V, 2022, Interferometry of quantum revivals (vol 157, 054304, 2022), Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol:157, ISSN:0021-9606
Tarrant J, Khokhlova M, Averbukh V, 2022, Interferometry of quantum revivals, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol:157, ISSN:0021-9606