CURRICULUM VITAE
Antonina N. KRAVTSOVA
Born
Azov, Rostov region (Russia) 20 April 1979
Education and Degrees
2004 Ph.D. in Physics, Rostov State University (Russia) with Thesis “Electronic Structure of
Some Compounds of Transition Metals”
2001 Distinction Diploma in Physics, Rostov State University (Russia)
Research activity
2002-today
Researcher at Laboratory of X-ray spectroscopy, Rostov State University
(Russia)
Position
2005-today
Assistant at Faculty of Physics, Rostov State University
Address
Office: Faculty of Physics, Rostov State University, 5 Sorge, Rostov-on-Don, 344090,
Russia
phone: +7- 863-2975126
E-mail: kravcovaa@mail.ru
Fields of interest
 theoretical and experimental investigation of local atomic geometry and electronic structure in
various types of condensed matter including:
- solids (advanced alloys, geological materials)
- nano-structures (nanoalloys, nanotubes, catalysts)
- biological materials with active metal centers (hemoglobin)
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effects and properties under the study:
- local structure of nanoalloys
- local structure of complex condensed materials
- electronic structure (density of states and fine details of hybridization of electronic
states) of condensed materials
- polarized XANES analysis
- spin-dependent XANES analysis
Methods:
 Advanced theoretical analysis of X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) and X-ray
Emission Spectroscopy (XES)
Scientific publications
Published 13 papers in refereed journals, 3 papers are in press:
1.
A.N. Kravtsova, I.E. Stekhin, A.V. Soldatov, X.Liu, M.E. Fleet.
B1
Phase of FeS in
Mg1-xFexS Solid Solution: X-ray Absorption Study. Physica Status Solidi (b) 234, No. 2
(2002) R4-R5.
2.
S.P. Farrel, M.E. Fleet, I.E. Stekhin, A. Kravtsova, A.V. Soldatov.
Evolution of Local
Electronic Structure in Alabandite and Niningerite Solid Solutions [(Mn,Fe)S, (Mg,Mn)S,
(Mg,Fe)S] using Sulfur K- and L-edge XANES Spectroscopy. American Mineralogist 87
(2002) 1321-1332.
3.
W. Drube, T.K Sham, A. Kravtsova, A.V. Soldatov. Fine Structure of Unoccupied Ag dstates near the Fermi Level in Ag and AgPd Studied by High-Resolution Partial Auger
Yield Spectroscopy at the Ag L3-edge.
4.
Physical Review B 67 (2003) 035122.
A.N. Kravtsova, I.E. Stekhin, A.V. Soldatov, X. Liu, M.E. Fleet.
Fine Structure Analysis
of X-ray Absorption at S L2,3-edge in MgS, CaS, MnS. Surface investigation: x-ray,
synchrotron and neutron techniques N 11 (2003) 73-76.
5.
A.N. Kravtsova, I.E. Stekhin, A.V. Soldatov, X. Liu, M.E. Fleet. Sulfur K-edge XANES
Study in Iron Sulfide. Frascati Physics Series XXXII (2003) 173-178.
6.
A.N. Kravtsova, A.V. Soldatov, I.E. Stekhin, S.Q. Wei,
W.S. Yan.
Local Structure of
Fe100-xCux Nanoalloys: X-ray Absorption Spectra Analysis. Crystallography Reports. 49,
Suppl. 1 (2004) S148-S152.
7.
A.V. Soldatov, A.N. Kravtsova, M.E. Fleet, S.L. Harmer. Electronic Structure of MeS (Me
= Ni, Co, Fe): X-ray Absorption Analysis. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 16
(2004) 7545-7556.
8.
A.V. Soldatov, A.N. Kravtsova, I.S. Rodina, A.N. Mansour.
Study of the Local Structure
of the Cathode Material LixNiO2 (x= 0.7): Analysis of the Near-Edge Fine Structure of the
X-ray Absorption Spectra. Optics and spectroscopy 96 (2004) 929-932.
9.
A.N. Kravtsova, I.E. Stekhin, A.V. Soldatov, X. Liu, M.E. Fleet .
Electronic Structure
of MS (M = Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn): X-ray Absorption Analysis. Physical Review B 69 (2004)
134109.
10.
A.V. Soldatov, A.N. Kravtsova, M.E. Fleet, X. Liu. Unoccupied Electronic States of MgS,
CaS, FeS: X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Theoretical Analysis. Physica Scripta
T115
(2005) 323-325.
11.
A.V. Soldatov, A.N. Kravtsova, E.N. Fedorovich, A. Ankudinov, A. Moewes,
E.Z.Kurmaev. Analysis of the Electronic Structure of Human
X-ray Emission.
Hemoglobin from Soft
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 144-147
(2005) 279-282.
12.
A.N. Kravtsova, I.E. Stekhin, A.V. Soldatov, M.E. Fleet, S.L. Harmer. Local and Electronic
Structure of FeS, CoS, NiS: Ultrasoft Sulfur L2,3 X-ray Absorption Spectra Analysis.
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 144-147 (2005) 525-527.
13.
M.C. Feiters, G.A. Metselaar, B.B. Wentzel, R.J.M. Nolte, S. Nikitenko, D.C. Sherrington,
Y. Joly, G.Yu. Smolentsev, A.N. Kravtsova, A.V. Soldatov. X-ray Absorption
Spectroscopic Studies on Nickel Catalysts for Epoxidation. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 44 (2005)
8631-8640.
14.
A.V. Soldatov, A.N. Kravtsova. Analysis of the Polarization Dependence of the N K-edge
X-ray Absorption Fine Structure in InN. Optics and Spectroscopy (2006) in press.
15.
A.V. Soldatov, G. Smolentsev, A. Kravtsova, G. Yalovega, M.C. Feiters, G.A. Metselaar,
Y. Joly. X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopic Study of Nickel Catalysts. Radiation
Physics and Chemistry (2006) in press.
16.
A.V. Soldatov, A. Guda, A. Kravtsova, M. Petravic P.N.K. Deenapanray, M.D. Fraser, Y.W. Yang, P.A. Anderson, S.M. Durbin. Nitrogen Defect Levels in InN: XANES Study.
Radiation Physics and Chemistry (2006) ) in press.
Attracting of external funding
2006 Ti nanoclusters: Local and electronic structure, President of Russian Federation, grant MK4486.2006.2
Workshop participation
2006 12th WIEN2k workshop (Vienna, Austria)
Conference participation
2003 International Conference on Using of X-rays, Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons and
Electrons for Materials Study (Moscow, Russia)
2006 International Conference on Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Transmission Electron
Microscopy (TEM) (Vienna, Austria)
Participation in international projects:
2003-2004 Researcher for joint NSCF (China) – RFBR (Russia) project "Local and electronic
structure of quantum nano-objects Ge/Si Fe/Cu: analysis of x-ray absorption" (0202-39015-a)
2003-2005 Researcher for joint NWO (Netherlands) - RFBR (Russia) project "X-Ray absorption
spectroscopic studies of changes in the Ni environment of polymerization and
epoxidation catalysts during turnover (03-03-89010_NWO)
Joint works abroad
2003
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France)
2004
University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China)
2005
University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)