Artem R. Oganov (born 3 March 1975) is a Russian theoretical crystallographer, mineralogist, chemist, physicist, and materials scientist.Oganov's laboratory site. Uspex-team.org. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. He is known mostly for his works on computational materials discovery and crystal structure prediction, studies of matter at extreme conditions, including matter of planetary interiors.
Education
Oganov graduated from Moscow State University in 1997 with magna summa cum laude and diploma in Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry. In 2002 he obtained a PhD degree in Crystallography from University College London, and in 2007 got a Habilitation degree from ETH Zurich.
Career
In 2008–2017 he was a professor at Stony Brook University. In 2012 Oganov received the "1000 talents" professorship in China. In 2013, having won a megagrant awarded by the Russian Government, Oganov opened a laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Since 2015 he is a Professor (since 2024 - Distinguished Professor) at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
Awards and honours
He is a laureate of several prestigious awards, including an ETH Latsis Prize, Research Excellence Model of the European Mineralogical Union.2007 Research Excellence Medal. Eurominunion.org. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. In 2012, Oganov won a "1000 talents professor" title in China and in the same year became a Professor Honoris Causa of Yanshan University (China), in 2013 elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Association of America,List of MSA Fellows. Minsocam.org. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. In 2016 and 2017 he was named as one of the most cited Russian scientists in Chemistry 2016 Russian Highly Cited Researcher Award . Indicator.ru. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. and Physics,Clarivate Analytics awarded highly cited Russian researchers . Clarivate.com. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. respectively. In 2022, 2024 and 2025 he was included in the list of Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate).Highly Cited Researchers He was elected a Fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2024., in 2025 becoming a member of its Academic Council.
In 2017 he was awarded the Gamow prize Kabanov and Oganov won the Gamow award . Indicator.ru. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. and Concord prize,Concord prize award . Sarinfo.org. Retrieved on 25 March 2018. In 2019, he received the Friendship Award,Oganov receives the Friendship Award the highest award given by Chinese government to foreign experts. In 2015 Oganov was elected Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.,Elected Professors of RAS. Ras.ru (29 December 2015). Retrieved on 25 March 2018. and in 2017 he became a member of the Academy of Europe Academia Europaea, and in 2020 elected Fellow of the Royal Society of ChemistryOganov elected Fellow of the RSC and Fellow of the American Physical Society.Oganov elected Fellow of the APS In 2011 he founded the Commission on Crystallography of Materials at the International Union of Crystallography, which he chaired until 2017. In 2017-2020 he served as a member of the Presidential council for science and education.Presidential council for science and education. Kremlin.ru (1 January 1991). Retrieved on 25 March 2018. In 2021-2024 he was a chairman of the Department of Semiconductors and Dielectrics of MISIS and head of the newly founded Laboratory of Crystal Chemistry of the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Oganov has held over 10 invited professorships (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Lille'Polytech, University of Paris, University of Poitiers, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, etc.). In 2011, Forbes magazine listed Oganov among "50 Russians who conquered the world".Forbes names 50 Russians who "conquered" the world. Themoscowtimes.com (25 October 2011). Retrieved on 25 March 2018. In 2012, highly acclaimed cinema director, Laureate of State Prize Vladimir Gerchikov made a film "The color of a crystal" about Oganov,«The color of a crystal». YouTube.com (25 October 2015). Retrieved on 25 March 2018. in 2015 the celebrated TV journalist Leonid Parfenov made a film "Made by Russians" about him.Made by Russians. YouTube.com (14 September 2015). Retrieved on 25 March 2018 and two other films about him appeared in 2018 on Kultura-TV channel Artem Oganov (the TV-film). YouTube.com (19 October 2018) and on NTV channel Cool Story: Return of the Professor. In 2019, as part of the 150th commemoration of Mendeleev's Periodic Table, yet another film came out,A New Element of the Russian Table where Oganov is one of the central characters. In 2013, magazines "Russian reporter" and "Expert" have listed Oganov among 100 most influential Russians today.100 people of modern Russia. Rusrep.ru. Retrieved on 25 March 2018.
Research
Oganov has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles (many in top journals, e.g. Nature, Science) and book chapters and 5 patents. He is a coauthor of 3 monographs and the author of 1 popular science book. His works have >43500 citations, h-index 100 (Google scholar, as of November 2025).Google scholar citation. Scholar.google.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2025.
His most important works are in fields of computational materials discovery, in particular the effects of pressure on chemical bonding, and state of matter at extreme conditions (e.g. inside the Earth and other planets). He has developed novel and highly efficient methods of crystal structure prediction that became basis of the USPEX code,USPEX code site. Uspex-team.org. Retrieved on 30 January 2022. used by more than 8500 researchers worldwide. Among the highlights are the discovery of the structure of a superhard phase of boron, gamma-B, transparent phase of sodium, new carbon allotrope, prediction of MgSiO3 post-perovskite and its stability in the Earth's mantle, prediction of other planet-forming minerals, prediction and synthesis of "forbidden" compounds (e.g., Na3Cl), discovery of helium chemistry, and creation of borophene - a 2D-monolayer of boron atoms, with great promises for future technologies. Oganov has proposed a new scale of electronegativities of the chemical elements.
Extending the definition of electronegativity to high pressures and tabulating electronegativities and chemical hardness for all elements (up to Cm, #96), Oganov and colleagues were able to explain many unusual phenomena of high pressure chemistry, as well as predicting new phenomena and compounds. Prediction of the new high pressure hydrous compound Mg2SiO5H2 has inspired a new hypothesis on the origin of the Earth's hydrosphere. Oganov and colleagues have predicted and studied (theoretically and experimentally) a number of novel superconductors, which are among the highest-temperature superconductors known to date: ThH10 and ThH9, YH6, (La,Y)H6 and (La,Y)H10. Computational methods developed by Oganov open up the way to discovery of materials with desired properties.
Personal life and family
Oganov speaks 5 languages (Russian, English, French, German, and Italian), is married, has four children and is a parishioner of St. Louis Catholic Church in Moscow.Артем Оганов: "Будущее есть только у тех, кто в него верит". http://рускатолик.рф (22 November 2013) His mother is Jewish and his father is Armenian.
Select interviews and popular science "Theory and experiment meet, and a new form of boron is found - New York Times" "Superharte Form des Elements Bor entdeckt - Spiegel" "Chemie Extrem: Forscher bringen Salz aus der Fassung - Spiegel" «Newly created helium compound could completely change chemistry - futurism.com» «Pressing helium discovery as gas reacted with sodium - Chemistry World» «Des cristaux de sel qui sortent de l'ordinaire - La Recherche» «La chimie de l'hélium, inconnue sur Terre, pourrait exister dans les planètes géantes - futura-sciences.com» «Science et recherche en Russie, en manque d'innovation - rts.ch» «Seltsame Bindung eint Natrium und Helium - Spektrum der Wissenschaft» "New ordering of the elements could help find materials with desired properties" "Neptune et Uranus auraient bien des manteaux de diamant!"
References
External links
Artem Oganov at Google Scholar