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Konstantin V. Tretiakov graduated summa cum laude in Industrial Electronics from the The Pavel Sukhoi State Technical University (Gomel, Belarus) in 1994. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Institute of Molecular Physics Polish Academy of Science (Poznan, Poland) in 2000. He is a recipient of the 2000 Institute of Molecular Physics Award for Ph.D. dissertation. In 2002-2004, Dr. Tretiakov was a Postdoctoral Fellow (with Prof. S. Scandolo) in the Condensed Matter and Statististical Physics Section at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy). In 2007-2009, Dr. Tretiakov worked with Prof. Grzybowski in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University (Evanston IL, USA). He is a staff member of Prof. Wojciechowski group and a member of Scientific Council of the Institute of Molecular Physics for 2011-2014. He specializes in statistical physics and computer simulation of many body systems, with research focusing on non-equilibrium self-assembling systems, transport properties of soft-matter, elastic properties of solids in particular materials exhibiting negative Poisson's ratio.