General information

Name: Volodymyr Vovchenko
Address: Physics Department
University of Houston
Science and Research Building 1
3507 Cullen Blvd
77204 Houston, TX, USA
Email: vovchenko@uh.edu
Phone: (713) 743-4328

Research Interests:
  • Heavy-Ion Collisions
  • Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  • Scientific Computing and Visualization

For detailed CV see PDF or HTML version.

Experience

Research and Education

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Physics Department, University of Houston

Dec 2022 – Present Houston, TX, USA
Leading a research group on theory of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant Professor

Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington

Apr 2022 – Nov 2022 Seattle, WA, USA

The position is also known as Junior INT Fellow.

Theoretical research of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions.

 
 
 
 
 

Feodor Lynen Research Fellow

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nuclear Science Division

Feb 2020 – Mar 2022 Berkeley, CA, USA

Nuclear theory group

Theoretical research of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions:

  • Freeze-out of fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions
  • Pion condensation

Funded by the Feodor Lynen Program of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.

 
 
 
 
 

Research Associate

Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Theoretical Physics

Jan 2017 – Feb 2020 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Theoretical research of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions:

  • QCD equation of state and phase structure under constraints from lattice gauge theory
  • Freeze-out in small and large systems created heavy-ion collisions
  • Development of hadron resonance gas model package Thermal-FIST

Teaching:

  • Seminars in various Theoretical Physics courses at the Physics Department of Goethe University Frankfurt
 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Student

Goethe University Frankfurt & FIAS

Apr 2014 – Mar 2018 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

PhD work Quantum statistical van der Waals equation and its QCD applications with Prof. Dr. Horst Stoecker at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Goethe University Frankfurt and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Doctoral Student

GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

Dec 2013 – Sep 2015 Darmstadt, Germany
Algorithm design and implementation for online physics analysis in the CBM experiment at FAIR. High performance computing using SIMD and OpenMP.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Help Micro Company

Jul 2013 – Nov 2013 Kyiv, Ukraine

Software development for cash registers

  • Driver development (C++)
  • Support software maintenance (Delphi)
  • Graphical user interface (Qt)
 
 
 
 
 

Internship

Institut Matériaux Microélectronique Nanosciences de Provence

Feb 2012 – Apr 2012 Marseille, France

Funded through a grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

 
 
 
 
 

MSc Student

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Physics Department

Sep 2011 – Jun 2013 Kyiv, Ukraine

Phenomenology of heavy-ion collisions

  • Space-time structure of fireball
  • Dynamics of partition into spectators and participants

Awards

Giersch-Excellence-Grant for outstanding work and progress in the PhD thesis project

Giersch-Excellence-Grant for outstanding work and progress in the PhD thesis project

Award for best scientific works of young scientists and students in 2012

Teaching

This is the list of courses that I taught as well useful links.

Spring 2025: Computational Physics (PHYS6350)

Physics Department at the University of Houston
Class size: 13 students
Syllabus
Lecture notes and code

Fall 2024: College Physics II (PHYS1302)

Physics Department at the University of Houston
Class size: 90 students
Syllabus
OpenStax College Physics Textbook

Spring 2023: Computational Physics (PHYS6350)

Physics Department at the University of Houston
Class size: 15 students
Syllabus
Lecture notes and code