Educational Background

Bachelor: Physics – Research activities (2015, BSU)

Master: Physics (2016, BSU)

Ph.D.: Condensed Matter Physics (2020, BSU)

Work Experience

- Belarusian State University, Faculty of Physics, research position: Fellow Researcher (since 08.2015), Senior Researcher (since 01.2021), Leading Researcher (since 04.2022 until now)

- Belarusian State University, Faculty of Physics, educator position: Senior Lecturer (since 04.2019), Associate Professor (since 02.2021 until now)

- Belarusian State University, Faculty of Physics, administration: Vice-Dean for Science and International Cooperation (since 03.2021 until now)

- Secretary of the Scientific Technical Council of the “Scientific and Educational Equipment” subprogram, “National Standards and High-Tech Research Equipment” State Scientific Technical Program, State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, since 06.2023

- Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Technical Council of the “Scientific and Educational Equipment” subprogram, “Scientific, Methodological and Resource Support for the Educational Process” State Scientific Technical Program, State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, since 01.2026

Teaching Experience

1. Small System Thermodynamics (2019-2024), Bachelor course

2. Fundamentals of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics (since 2025), Bachelor course

3. Research Work on the Topic of the Dissertation (since 2025), Master course

4. Research Seminars (since 2025), Master course

5. Workshop “Computer Simulation in Solid State Physics” (since 2025), Bachelor course

International experience (especially in English language countries)

1 BRFFR-RFFR international project with MIPT, Russia (supervisor)

5 commercial international projects with JINR, Russia (executor)

Research Interests

2D materials, vibrational properties, electronic structure, structural modification by ion irradiation, Raman and PL spectroscopy, ab-initio simulations, molecular dynamics

Research Projects

1. Belarus-JINR (Russia) International Cooperation project, Ion irradiation of solid materials, 2025.

2. Belarus-JINR (Russia) International Cooperation project, Ion irradiation of solid materials, 2024.

3. International project “Electronic and phonon properties of graphene on substrates functionalized with donor and acceptor impurities”, 2021-2023 (Belarus-Russia) (Project Supervisor)

4. Belarus-JINR (Russia) International Cooperation project, Ion irradiation of solid materials, 2023.

5. Belarusian State Research Program project “Effect of defects on the mechanisms of electron and phonon transport in metal-graphene structures”, 2019-2020.

6. Belarusian State Research Program project “Structural, optical and electrical properties of thin films based on chalcogenides and elements of the carbon subgroup, promising for the creation of solar cells”, 2019-2020.

7. Belarus-JINR (Russia) International Cooperation project, Ion irradiation of 2D materials, 2019.

8. Belarus-JINR (Russia) International Cooperation project, Ion irradiation of 2D materials, 2018.

9. Belarusian Ministry of Education grant “Phonon anharmonicity in supported graphene”, 2018 (Project Supervisor)

10. Belarusian State Research Program project “Electrical, thermal and optical properties of composite materials based on carbon nanotubes and graphene”, 2016-2018.

Honors and Awards

1. Winner of the 23rd National Student Research Competition of Belarus, 2016.

2. Award from the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for Social Support of Gifted Students, 2017.

3. Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Belarus for postgraduate students, 2019.

4. A.N. Sevchenko Prize winner in the category “Ph.D. under 35 years of age” in the “Science” nomination for the series of papers “Phonon Properties of Supported Graphene”, 2021.

5. Letter of Gratitude from BSU, 2023.

Publications (selected)

1. E.A. Kolesov et al., Low-temperature anharmonic phonon properties of supported graphene, Carbon 111, 587-591 (2017).

2. E.A. Kolesov et al., Defect formation in supported graphene irradiated by accelerated Xenon ions, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 29, 3296-3303 (2018).

3. E.A. Kolesov et al., The effect of atmospheric doping on pressure-dependent Raman scattering in supported graphene, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 9, 704-710 (2018).

4. E.A. Kolesov et al., Phonon anharmonicities in supported graphene, Carbon 141, 190-197 (2019).

5. E.A. Kolesov, Choosing the substrate for ion irradiation of two-dimensional materials, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 10, 531-539 (2019).

6. E.A. Kolesov et al., Atmospheric adsorption on pristine and nitrogen-doped graphene: doping-dependent, spatially selective, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 53, 045302 (2020).

7. E.A. Kolesov et al., Ion irradiation of supported graphene: defect formation and atmospheric doping, Materials Science and Engineering B 284, 115918 (2022).

8. E.A. Kolesov et al., Graphene on SiO2/Si and Al2O3 under thermal annealing and electric current: competition of dopant desorption and conformation to substrate, Diamond and Related Materials 139, 110362 (2023).

9. E.A. Kolesov et al., Composition- and Thickness-Dependent Electronic and Phonon Properties of Monolayer to Few-Layer MoxW1-xSe2 Alloys, Small, e12331 (2026).

10. E. A. Kolesov, Dielectric substrates as defect sources in two-dimensional materials under ion irradiation, Russ. Phys. J., 10.1007/s11182-026-03720-3 (2026).