Emil S. Božin

Scientific Interests Investigating relationship between local atomic structure/short range order and physical properties of complex quantum and functional materials vis-à-vis charge, orbital and spin sectors. Characterization of electronically driven nanoscale heterogeneities and their role in systems displaying emergent phenomena such as strongly correlated electron oxides and related compounds with colossal responses, charge density wave systems, materials displaying topological behaviors, novel high performance thermoelectric systems, and other structurally disordered and crystallographically challenged materials. On technical side, my interests include pushing the boundaries of the available applicable tools and development of new ones for structural studies on a nanoscale. Expertise Advanced Fourier methods. Neutron and X-ray powder total scattering and associated atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis, single crystal X-ray total and differential 3D-PDF, time-resolved X-ray PDF, utilization of various data processing and data analysis software for reciprocal and direct space structure modeling.