E-mail: elena.savchenko@gmail.com  savchenko@ilt.kharkov.ua

The main topic of the research by Prof. Dr. E.V. Savchenko is elucidating of a role of excited states in formation and modification of physical and chemical properties of solids. Her studies are focused mainly on model solids – cryomaterials and cryomatrices. E. Savchenko pioneered studies into the electronically induced lattice rearrangement resulting in discovery of new mechanisms of defect formation and a novel phenomenon – anomalous low-temperature desorption of atoms from pre-irradiated solids. Crucially new aspects of cross-connection between nuclear and electronic relaxation processes resulting in a change of physical and chemical properties of solids have been revealed. An up-to-date method of stimulating the relaxation cascades by chemiluminescent reactions has been developed.