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Dr. habil. Kristina Kvashnina

Nominated by

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
AcademiaNet member since 18.03.2021
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Employed by

Rossendorf Beamline, The European Synchrotron ESRF
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Academic Discipline/Fields

Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

Field

Physical sciences

Area of specialisation

Synchrotron-based analytical methods: X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in high energy resolution fluorescence detection (HERFD) mode, X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), Resonant Inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS/RXES), Electronic structure of f-electron systems (lanthanides and actinides)

Research interests

Physico-chemical properties of actinide and lanthanide nanomaterials, Applied materials, containing f-electron systems, Synchrotron-based techniques for material characterization, Electronic Structure Calculations by various approaches

Distinctions and Awards

Named Top 10 strong female scientists by Forbes Russia, 2021
Megagrant Holder, 2019 – 2021
European Research Council (ERC) Grant Holder, 2018 – 2023

Languages

English, French, Russian

Doctorate

2007: Physics with specialization in Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics

PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

2017: Physics

Short CV/Education and training

Since 2015

ERC Group Head at the Rossendorf Beamline of ESRF, funded by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
2010 – 2015

Beamline Scientist at ID26 Beamline of ESRF, France
2008 – 2010

Post-Doctoral Fellow at ID26 beamline of ESRF, France
2006 – 2008

Post-Doctoral Fellow at BM26 beamline of ESRF, funded by NWO, The Netherlands

Education

2017

HDR (Physics) - Université Grenoble Alpes, France
2007

PhD (Physics) – Uppsala University, Department of Physics, Sweden
2000

MS (Physics) - Ural State Technical University, Theoretical Physics, Russia

Selected publications

Kvashnina, K. O., Butorin, S. M. & Glatzel, P. Direct study of the f-electron configuration in lanthanide systems. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 26, 1265 (2011).
Kvashnina, K. O., Butorin, S. M., Martin, P. & Glatzel, P. Chemical State of Complex Uranium Oxides. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 253002 (2013).
Cafun, J.-D., Kvashnina, K. O., Casals, E., Puntes, V. F. & Glatzel, P. Absence of Ce3+ sites in chemically active colloidal ceria nanoparticles. ACS Nano 7, 10726–32 (2013).
Kvashnina, K. O., Kvashnin, Y. O. & Butorin, S. M. Role of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in high-resolution core-level spectroscopy of actinide materials. J. Electron Spectros. Relat. Phenomena 194, 27–36 (2014).
Butorin, S. M., Kvashnina, K. O., Vegelius, J. R., Meyer, D. & Shuh, D. K. High-resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a probe of crystal-field and covalency effects in actinide compounds. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 113, 8093–8097 (2016).
Kvashnina, K. O. et al. A Novel Metastable Pentavalent Plutonium Solid Phase on the Pathway from Aqueous Plutonium(VI) to PuO 2 Nanoparticles. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 58, 17558–17562 (2019).
Gerber, E. et al. The missing pieces of the PuO 2 nanoparticle puzzle. Nanoscale 12, 18039–18048 (2020).

Complete list of publications

Selected projects

ERC project "Towards the Bottom of the Periodic Table (TOP)"
Profile of Kristina Kvashnina

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

Main editor of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (IUCr journal)
Member of the Project Review Panel (PRP) at Petra III (Hamburg, Germany)
Member of the advisory group for PANAMA (Plasma Accelerators for Nuclear Applications and Materials Characterization) facility, at University of Strathclyde, UK
Selection committee member of the Joint Research Center (JRC) proposals of the European Commission