Department of Condensed System Spectroscopy

Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Lenin Avenue 47, 61103 Kharkov
Ukraine

Phone: 38 (057) 341 0836
Fax: 38 (057) 345 0593
E-mail: elena.savchenko@gmail.com savchenko@ilt.kharkov.ua

Born 1942 (Ekaterinburg/Russia)

Kharkov State University: faculty of Physics and Mathematics (1959-1964)

Msc in Physics (1964)

Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering (since 1965)

Leader of Cryocrystal Spectroscopy research group (since 1970)

Candidat of sciences: solid state physics (1976)

Doctor of Sciences: solid state physics (1990)

Visiting Scientist/Technical University of Munich, Germany (1996)

Visiting Scientist/Gakushuin University, Tokyo and Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan (1997)

Visiting Scientist/University of Helsinki, Finland (2004)

Visiting Scientist/Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Germany (2008)

Member of the Expert Board in Molecular Physics (ILTPE)

Member of the Expert Board in Optics and Laser Physics (University Kharkov)

Member of the International Organizing Committees of the conferences on "Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals" and "Low Temperature Chemistry".

Member of the Physical Society of Ukraine

Awards

Prikhot’ko’s prize on Spectroscopy of Solids (2003)

Editorial activity

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Low Temperature Physics" (since 1995)

Guest Editor of the Special Issues:

"Low-Temperature Physics and Chemistry in Cryomatrices" (Guest Editors V.E. Bondybey and E.V. Savchenko), Low Temperature Physics, 26, 9/10 (2000);

"4^th International Conference on Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals (CC 2002)" (Guest Editors V.E. Bondybey and E.V. Savchenko), Low Temperature Physics, 29, 9/10 (2003);

"Phenomena Induced by Electronic Transitions: Low-Temperature Aspects" (Guest Editors P. Feulner and E.V. Savchenko), Low Temperature Physics, 29, 3 (2003);

"Low-Temperature Spectroscopy and Optics" (Guest Editors V.M. Loktev and E.V. Savchenko), Low Temperature Physics, 32 (2006).

Fields of scientific interests

Spectroscopy of condensed matter, material and surface sciences, radiation physics and chemistry.

Publications

She is co-author of books "Cryocrystals" and "Physics of Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation" (Naukova Dumka, Kiev) and has more than 150 original publications in International journals.

Current Projects

Collaborative project between DFG and Natinal Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Solvation Effects and Electron-Driven Processes" UKR 113/31/0-3