# Dmitry Vinichenko Graduate Student ![dmitryvinichenko.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum7796/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/friend-lab/files/dmitryvinichenko.jpg?itok=aR7CEgKD) location\_on Friend Research Group Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 12 Oxford Street, M018 Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617 495 3331]() email Dmitry, an alumnus of Moscow State University, entered Harvard's Chemical Physics graduate program in 2012. In his research Dmitry takes advantage of the twenty-first century's rapidly developing computational resources in order to obtain atomic level insights into mechanisms of surface reactions from *ab initio* simulations of environmentally and industrially relevant processes catalyzed by the transition metal oxides, particularly, titania: photochemical splitting of water, reduction of carbon dioxide, oxidation of environmental pollutants. Dmitry's research is directed towards the fundamental microscopic understanding of chemical processes through first principles simulations using modern quantum theory of matter. More specifically, studying heterogeneous catalyzed photochemical reactions on surfaces of semiconductors and more complex hybrid structures. The ultimate goal is to devise first principles based methodologies for prediction and modeling the mechanisms of heterogeneous processes, and, eventually, for the computational design of catalytic materials. - ## People [Former Group Members 2010 to present](/people/former-group-members-2010-to) [Graduate Students](/people/graduate-students-1)