Mgr. Petr Ashcheulov, Ph.D.

Dr. Petr Ashcheulov, Ph.D is a research scientist in the Materials for Nanosystems and Biointerfaces (MNB) Research Group at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU). He completed his Ph.D. in 2015 at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT) in collaboration with FZU under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network where he focused his research work on the development of nanodiamond coatings for nuclear and solar energy applications. He continued to strengthen his expertise in the diamond research through a postdoctoral position in the MNB group since 2015 and further gained the experience in the field of electrochemistry during 2017 in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne-Switzerland in the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials (LIMNO) lead by Prof. Kevin Sivula, PhD. 

Dr. Ashcheulov’s research activities are focused on the synthesis of thin diamond coatings for a variety of potential applications, including the development of (i) protective nanodiamond coating for zirconium alloy-based nuclear fuel rods, (ii) diamond layers as electrically conductive and water impermeable coating for the protection of silicon solar cells used in the photo-assisted water splitting, (iii) 3D porous diamond electrodes for the application in the electrochemical water treatment, (iv) optically transparent and electrically conductive diamond thin film electrodes, (v) low temperature synthesis of diamond coatings for the application on temperature sensitive materials, (vi) diamond electrodes for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to useful chemical compounds, and (vii) the development of gas sensors based on hybrid structures with functional diamond thin layers.