Dr Edward George Timoshenko

Dr Edward George Timoshenko
IMG_2213.jpeg IMG_2213.jpeg Dr Edward G. Timoshenko
Born	1969-09-24
🏳️ Nationality	Irish
Other names	Edward Axont
🏫 Education	Ph.D., M.Sc.
💼 Occupation	Scientist, Writer, Educator
👔 Employer	TEdQz Research, University College Dublin
🌐 Website	www.EdTim.Live
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Edward George Timoshenko
Эдуард Георгиевич Тимошенко

Edward George Timoshenko
Эдуард Георгиевич Тимошенко

Scientist, researcher, Dr, educator, writer. Irish, born in USSR

Summary

Dr E.G. Timoshenko worked on Polymer Physics, Computer Simulations Modelling, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics,Yang-Mills Gauge Field Theory, Color Confinement in Quantum Chromodynamics, General Relativity and theories of grand unification (Theory of Everything) beyond the Standard Model.

Author of 5 textbooks Series: “Concise Lecture Notes in Physical Chemistry” and of scientific fiction under the pseudonym Edward Axont Series: “HOCIjump. Adventures of Raymond and Simon.”

Scientific Areas

General Relativity: black holes, gravitational waves, Quantum Mechanics Quantum gauge Yang-Mills theory, Hamilton Fock-Schwinger formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Chromodynamics, Color confinement-deconfinement phase transition in QCD, Statistical Mechanics of Polymer Physics: conformations, dynamics, kinetics of polymers, dendrimers, proteins, and DNA

Research Work

Dr Timoshenko’s undergraduate and postgraduate University education has been in the area of Theoretical Physics with emphasis on the Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Computer Simulations, and their applications to a broad range of interdisciplinary problems in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
His early research was on caustics type of gravitational singularities and waves in General Relativity and a new gauge field model of the fifth interaction. Further doctoral studies were on the Hamiltonian and Path Integrals Fock-Schwinger gauge formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics, its boundary effects and variables at infinity, and especially the Confinement-Deconfinement phase transition in non-abelian Quantum Gauge Theory. A novel mechanism of colour confinement has been proposed for SU(N) gauge fields. The quarks string tension has been calculated via path integrals. A PhD degree in theoretical physics has been awarded in 1995 from the Nuclear Physics Institute of Moscow Lomonosov State University.
Further, Dr Timoshenko headed Theory and Computation Group at University College Dublin, Ireland. The main area of his research was on kinetics and dynamics of macromolecular and biomolecular conformational changes in dilute solutions. Gaussian Self-Consistent (GSC) approach for the equilibrium and kinetics was proposed for a single homopolymer chain in solution. This has led to elucidation of the kinetic laws at the collapse, or coil-to-globule transition, of a homopolymer – an elusive problem of fundamental importance – and to the discovery of the `necklace of pearls’ polymer collapse process.
These theoretical studies by Monte Carlo simulations, were first performed on a lattice and then in continuous space, based on the Metropolisalgorithm. Other methods, such as Molecular Dynamics and Stochastic Dynamics simulations, have been also utilised to understand the behaviour of macromolecular systems in solution and to make a reliable connection between the theory, simulations and experiment. In the consequent years, these techniques have been further generalised and extended to increasingly complex polymeric systems.
For a semi-flexible, or persistent, homopolymer a novel phase diagram with a number of distinct toroidal globules distinguished by the winding number and with complex kinetics of transitions between them has been discovered. This was experimentally found to apply to the conformational structure of a DNA condensed in the presence of counter-ions.
For amphiphilic heteropolymers, involving hydrophobic and hydrophilic units synthesised in a given primary sequence (e.g. di-block, tri-blocks or random), an emergence of non-trivial conformational structures, such as micro-phase separated globules and frustrated glassy states, with a corresponding multi-stage complex kinetics of folding on a rugged free energy landscape, have been discovered. The latter findings permitted one to make a connection to the problem of protein folding at a coarse-grained level.

Later on, study of amphiphilic copolymers at higher concentrations has lead the Group to the explanation of the mechanism of mesoglobules formations, earlier observed for PNIPAM polymers experimentally. These are hydrophobically self-assembled nano-sized spherical particles with a rather size monodispersed distribution and thermodynamically controlled mean size, resulting from equilibrium collapse and phase-separation arising in certain areas of the phase diagram, as opposed to kinetically controlled aggregation, within the two-phase separation region.
Further works involved theoretical and simulation studies of polymers with non-trivial macromolecular architectures such as stars, combs and dendrimers, as as well attempts to include iono-mers and, more generally, to account for Coulomb and more specific bonded interactions in macromolecular solutions at a higher level of detail.
One particularly successful collaborative project with the University of Leeds, UK involved the modelling of the nano self-assembly of short rigid oligo-peptides into a hierarchy of ribbons, tapes and fibrils conformations and structures.
Dr Timoshenko’s recent interests involve functional integrals and symbols of operators in a more systematic approach to the Quantum Measurements theory, self-perpetuating networks and artificial intelligence. Insights from the string and membranes theories, as well as other attempts at Theories of Grand Unification beyond the Standard Model. These are being developed based on Differential Geometry, proto-geometry and Category Theory ideas.

Achievements, International Collaboration

Tenure track position
Dr Edward Timoshenko has been a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, UCD since 1997. His research interests were in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: development and application of statistical mechanical and computational techniques for studying the conformational structure and dynamics of biological and synthetic polymers.

Visiting Professor
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) of the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, Paris, France
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia

Awards
1992. Rem Khokhlov first top award for the best graduate MSc thesis, Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University.
1993. Personal award from the George Soros Fund, International Science Foundation.
2000. UCD President's Research award.

Chartered Professional Qualifications
CChem MRSC, EurPhys, CPhys MInstP, Member of ACS, APS.

Publicity
Led a series of radio podcasts ‘Science of ordinary things’ presented by Paddy O’Gorman on RTE radio 1 prime time, 2004.
Article on QSH, Dutch TEX Users Group, no 2, p. 63, 1993.
Interview and photo in an article in the Irish Times, 30 Oct 1995, p. 4.
Article in the Irish Scientist, Oct 1995, p. 34.
Article in Chemistry in Ireland, Irish Chemical News, Vol. 25, No 2, p.7, 2009.

Referee for the journals
Physical Review Letters, Physical Reviews E and B, and the Journal of Chemical Physics (published by the American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society),
Refereed for the Hong-Kong Research Grants Council, China,
1996-1998 – served on the Management Board of the ICCSB (Irish Centre for Colloid Science and Biomaterials).

PhDs supervised to completion at UCD 
Nikolaj Georgi, 2005. "Advanced numerical techniques for computer simulations in statistical mechanics of synthetic polymers and biopolymers." 
Giovanni Bellesia, 2005. "In silico study of conformational properties of self-assembled structures formed by rationally designed oligopeptides." 
Ronan Connolly, 2003. "Conformations of branched polymers." ("BOC gases" award).
Roman N. Basovsky, 2002. "Computer simulations of conformational transitions in macromolecular solutions." 
Alan A. Byrne, 1999. "The nature of the phase transitions of polymers." 
Yuri A. Kuznetsov, 1998. “Theoretical study of equilibrium structures and kinetic phenomena in macromolecular solutions." 
Deirdre E. Jennings, 1998. "Conformational transitions of three-component mixtures of polymer, amphiphile and solvent: A Monte Carlo study." 

Main References

ORCID profile
ResearchGate works
Google Scholar profile (i10-index: 35, h-index: 19)
Semantic Scholar profile
ArXiv works

External Links

Dr E.G. Timoshenko worked with late Professor D.D. Ivanenko, Professor G.A. Sardanashvily, Professor N.A. Sveshnikov and previously with Professor K.A. Dawson

Scientific publications
Published scientific books
Books under the pseudonym Edward Axont
Main web page
Staff list

Public Personal Interests

Ed Tim TV
Nature photographer

Reviewed in Books

P. 442 in “Spin Glasses And Random Fields”, edited by Peter A Young, World Scientific, 1997.
P. 126 in “Protein Folding, Evolution and Design”edited by Eugene I. Shakhnovich, R. A. Broglia, G. Tania. IOS Press, 2001.
In “Spin Glass Theory and Beyond. An Introduction to the Replica Method and Its Applications”, World Scientific, 1987.
In “Folding Aggregation Mesoglobule Copolymer Solutions”. By G. Zhang. Springer, 2006.

Ancestors

Genealogical Tree

Mother. Мать Тамара Сергеевна Бедулина.
Бабушка Юлия Викторовна Бедулина.
Прадед Виктор Станиславович Борсук.
Прабабушка Розалия Якубовна Любецкая
Дед Сергей Петрович Бедулин.
Прадед Пётр Бедулин. Погиб на войне.
Прабабушка Домна Капустина. Прожила 95 лет.
Father. Отец Жорж Иванович Тимошенко.
Дед Иван Сидорович Тимошенко.
Прадед Сидор Тимошенко. Из Одессы.
Прабабушка ?
Бабушка Антонина Андреевна Филиппович.
Прадед Андрей Матвеевич Филиппович. Погиб на войне.
Прабабушка Мария Лукьяновна Синкевич. Прожила 90 лет.

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