Education

• BA, MA, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
• PhD, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology & Institute of Chemical Physics, RAS, Moscow

Selected Recent Publications

• J. Niklas, O. G. Poluektov, ​“Charge Transfer Processes in OPV Materials as Revealed by EPR Spectroscopy”, Advanced Energy Materials, Invited Review, 2017, 7, 1602226
•  S. Soltau, J. Niklas, P. Dahlberg, K. Mulfort, O. Poluektov, L. Utschig, ​“Charge Separation Related to Photocatalytic H2 Production from a Ru-apoflavodoxin-Ni Biohybrid” ACS Energy Letters, 2017, 2, 230-237.
• M. Ortiz, S. Cho, J. Niklas, S. Kim, O. G. Poluektov, W. Zhang, G. Rumbles, J. Park ​“Through-Space Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer Dynamics of a C₇₀-Encapsulated Bisporphyrin Covalent Organic Polyhedron in a Low-Dielectric Medium” JACS, 2017, 139, 4286−4289.  
• J. Ho, E. Kish, D. Méndez-Hernández, K. Wong-Carter, S. Pillai, G.Kodis, J. Niklas, O. G. Poluektov, D. Gust, T. A. Moore, A. L. Moore, V. S. Batista, B. Robert, ​“Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer in Artificial and Natural Photosynthetic Antennas”, PNAS, 2017, 114 (28), E5513-E5521.
•  D. Basu, S. Mazumder, J. Niklas, H. Baydoun, D. Wanniarachchi, X. Shi, R.J. Staples, O.G. Poluektov, H.B. Schlegel, C.N. Verani ​“Evaluation of the coordination preferences and catalytic pathways of heteroaxial cobalt oximes towards hydrogen generation” Chemical Science, 2016, 7, 3264-3278.
•  C. Yu,  M. Graham, J. Zadrozny, J. Niklas, M. Krzyaniak, M. Wasielewski, O. Poluektov, D. Freedman, ​“Long Coherence Times in Surface-Compatible Nuclear Spin-Free Vanadium Qubits”, JACS, 2016,  138(44),  14678–14685.
•  Poluektov, O. G., Utschig, L. M. ​“Low Temperature Bidirectional Electron Transfer in F_X removed photosystem I”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119(43), 13771-13776.
• Niklas, S. Beaupré, M. Leclerc, T. Xu, L. Yu, A. Sperlich, V. Dyakonov, O.G. Poluektov, ​“Photoinduced Dynamics of Charge Separation:  From Photosynthesis to Polymer-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunctions”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119 (24), 7407-7416.