Dr. Kilin has over ten years>' experience in modeling of excited state dynamics in photoactive nanomaterials. Kilin completed his undergraduate (1994) and Masters degrees (1996) in Physics from Belarus State University (Minsk, Belarus) and received a doctoral degree from the Chemnitz University of Technology (Chemnitz, Germany) in 2000. After subsequent postdoctoral internships at the University of Oregon, University of Washington, and University of Florida, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Dakota as faculty. His current research interests are focused on modeling the photo-induced dynamic processes of charge transfer, nonradiative charge carrier relaxation, and surface reactions at catalytic sites and interfaces of metal and semiconductor nanomaterials for photovoltaic and photocatalytic solar energy conversion.