Chemistry Instrumentation Facility

X-ray Lab

	Dr. Arkady Ellern
		1711 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University, Chemistry Department, Ames, 50011, IA, USA
		+1-515-2947956
		+1-515-2945717
		ellern@iastate.edu

Arkady Ellern was born and raised in Moscow USSR , studied chemistry at Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology (graduated with honors) and received his PhD studies at the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Inorganic Chemistry. In 1992 he moved to Israel and began to work in Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Chemistry Department in the position of a Senior Crystallographer. Beginning 2001 he he is working at Iowa State University as Senior Crystallographer. The detailed information can be found in Curriculum Vitae

As a Chemist and  X-ray Crystallographer he authored and coauthored more than 120 papers and review articles, mostly on synthesis, sophisticated crystal growth of wide variety of extremely unstable and aggressive substances under low temperatures and high pressures including in situ  crystallization. He determined structures of halogen fluorides oxifluorides and their derivatives as well as a range of xenon amd bromine derivatives with coordination number exceed 6.  His recent research interest is focused on crystal polymorphism, ionic liquids and precise X-ray structure determination of nano-structures.

As a University Crystallographer he is the only person who is responsible for  maintenance of lab equipment including "SCINTAG" Powder Diffractometer, "Bruker SMART CCD" diffractometer with low temperature device and local network of 7 computers. More than a hundred structures a year with "ready-for-publication" quality is the traditional routine result for X-Ray Lab.

His areas of scientific consulting are polymorphism in small-molecule chemistry,  sophisticated crystal growth, solid state chemistry and crystallography, thermo-chemistry and solid state phase transition.   

Arkady Ellern  was awarded with prestigious Humboldt Fellowship in 1991 and he successfully spent a 16 months  in Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Berlin Free University, Lab of Professor Dr. Konrad Seppelt  in 1994 and 5 months in 1999.

Olga Ellern, his wife since works as a PCR team leader in Pioneer Hi-Bred Company, (DuPont) in Des-Moines, IA. They have  daughter Elizabeth Kleiman  - PhD. student (Math and Computer Sciences Iowa State University) and son Ilya - undergraduate student (Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University).  All member of family love to perform classic music (piano, cello, guitar and vocal).

Arkady Ellern's numerous  hobbies include volleyball, table tennis, singing Russian country songs, furniture design etc.  The most unusual hobby is still building and repair of classic guitars using high-end exotic solid woods.