Physicist Ilia Solov'yov appointed

Prof. Dr. Ilia Solov'yov has been appointed Professor of Theoretical Molecular Physics at the Institute of Physics. The chair is a Lichtenberg Endowed Professorship. His research group ”Quantum Biology and Computational Physics”, which he set up in 2013 at the University of Southern Denmark, has relocated to the University of Oldenburg.

Solov'yov studied physics in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Frankfurt. He earned his PhD from the University of Frankfurt in 2008 with a thesis on magnetoreception in birds. In 2009 he received another doctorate for a thesis in theoretical physics at the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. He then held research posts at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, before moving to the University of Southern Denmark in Odense to take an assistant professor position in 2013. In 2014, he was awarded a lifetime professorship there.

Solov'yov's research interests extend from theoretical and computational physics to biophysics.