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BIOGRAPHY

1997:
M.S. in Chemistry, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
2003: Ph.D. in Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University
2003-2005: Postdoctoral
Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2005-2009: Assistant
Professor, Georgia Southwestern State University
2009-present: Associate
Professor, Georgia Southwestern State University
COURSES

Principles of Chemistry I -
CHEM 1211 Principles of Chemistry
I - CHEM 1212
Principles of Chemistry Lab I -
CHEM 1211L
Principles of Chemistry Lab II -
CHEM 1212L
Quantitative
Analysis - CHEM 3250
Quantitative Analytical Lab -
CHEM 3250L
Instrumental Analysis
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CHEM 4450
Instrumental Analysis
Lab -
CHEM 4450L Molecular Modelling - CHEM 4350
Special Problems - CHEM 4470
Chemistry Seminar I - CHEM 4491
CURRENT PROJECTS

- Electronic structure and
properties of conducting polymers
- Symmetry breaking in
polymethine dyes
- Self-Consistent-Polarization Hartree-Fock method
- Volatile compounds in water
droplets
PUBLICATIONS

T. D. Iordanov, J. L.
Davis, A. E. Masunov, A. Levenson, O. V. Przhonska, A. D. Kachkovski
"Symmetry breaking in cationic
polymethine dyes, Part 1: Ground state potential energy surfaces,
equilibrium and non-equilibrium solvent effects on electronic
spectra of streptocyanines" accepted, International Journal of
Quantum Chemistry
T. D. Iordanov "A Case Study in Performance Evaluation of
Density Functional Tight Binding Method in Two Layer ONIOM Method,"
J. Molec. Structure: THEOCHEM, 850 (1-3),152-159, 2008
T. D. Iordanov, G. K. Schenter, M. Dupuis and B. C. Garrett
“Self-Consistent-Polarization Hartree-Fock method (SCP-HF)”, in
progress
Shiyu Du and J. S. Francisco, G. K.
Schenter, T. D. Iordanov, B. C. Garrett, M. Dupuis and Jun Li:
“The OH radical – H2O molecular interaction potential”,
J. Chem. Phys.,
124; 224318 (2006)
T. D. Iordanov, G. K. Schenter and
B. C. Garrett, "Sensitivity analysis of thermodynamic properties of
liquid water: A general approach to improve empirical potentials",
J. Phys. Chem. A,
110(2);
762-771
(2005)
T. Iordanov
and S. Hammes-Schiffer, "Vibrational Analysis for the
Nuclear-Electronic Orbital (NEO) Method", J. Chem. Phys.,
118, 9489-9496 (2003).
S. P. Webb, T. Iordanov, and
S. Hammes-Schiffer, "Multiconfigurational nuclear-electronic orbital
approach: Incorporation of nuclear quantum effects in electronic
structure calculations", J. Chem. Phys., 117, 4106-4118
(2002).
S. R. Billeter, S. P. Webb, T.
Iordanov, P. K. Agarwal, and S. Hammes-Schiffer, "Hybrid
approach for including electronic and nuclear quantum effects in
molecular dynamics simulations of hydrogen transfer reactions in
enzymes", J. Chem.
Phys., 114, 6925-6936
(2001).
T. Iordanov,
S. R. Billeter, S. P. Webb, and S. Hammes-Schiffer, "Partial
multidimensional grid generation method for efficient calculation of
nuclear wavefunctions", Chem. Phys. Lett., 338, 389-397
(2001).
S. R. Billeter, S. P. Webb, P. K.
Agarwal, T. Iordanov, and S. Hammes-Schiffer, "Hydride
transfer in liver alcohol dehydrogenase: quantum dynamics, kinetic
isotope effects, and the role of enzyme motion", J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 123, 11262-11272 (2001).
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Method and algorithm development
applicable to large-scale quantum mechanical computations.
Ab-initio electronic structure
calculations.
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