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Volodymyr Vovchenko
Physics Department
University of Houston
Science and Research Building 1
3507 Cullen Blvd
77204 Houston, TX, USA
Heavy-Ion Collisions; QCD Equation of State; Scientific Computing and Visualization
University of Houston
Physics Department
Assistant Professor
University of Washington, Seattle
Institute for Nuclear Theory
Research Assistant Professor
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nuclear Science Division
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow (Humboldt Foundation)
Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Associate
PhD, Theoretical Physics; Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Thesis: Quantum statistical van der Waals equations and its QCD applications
Grade: summa cum laude (with distinction)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Horst Stoecker
MSc, Physics; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dmitry Anchishkin
Member of the CBM collaboration at FAIR-GSI
On-line event reconstruction and physics analysis for heavy-ion collisions
Summer student at CERN School of Computing
Braga, Portugal
Intensive lectures and exercises in different subjects of high-performance scientific computing
Software engineer at Help-Micro Company
Kyiv, Ukraine
Software development for cash registers
Internship at Institut Matériaux Microélectronique Nanosciences de Provence
Marseille, France
Quantum chemistry calculations on a computer cluster for molecules and polymer sheets
Theoretical description of a time-dependent transport through a quantum dot
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.
Prize of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Goethe University for Young Scientists for best dissertation in the natural sciences. (link)
Giersch-Excellence-Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis.
Giersch-Excellence-Grant for outstanding work and progress in the PhD thesis project within the past year.
Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the best scientific works of young scientists and students in 2012.
Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Program “100+100+100” for studying and training abroad in 2011/2012).
Co-authored around 60 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, first author in more than half of them, 2 are single authored, 1 invited review. Among journals 2 PRL, 6 PLB, 1 JHEP, 35 PRC, 2 PRD, and 1 CPC.
Full publication list here or at INSPIRE
h-index: 24 (INSPIRE), 24 (Google Scholar)
Citations: 1570 (INSPIRE), 1738 (Google Scholar)
Around 40 talks at international conferences and workshops, including Quark Matter, SQM, CPOD, XQCD, ~15 of them invited. (link to full list)
Tutorials in various Theoretical Physics courses for undergraduates at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2016-2018
Referee for Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C & D, Physics Letters B, European Physical Journal A, Journal of Physics G, and other journals
Grant proposal reviewer for National Science Centre Poland
C/C++, Java, Python, Mathematica, LaTeX, CERN-ROOT, Fortran, CUDA, OpenGL, Qt
GitHub (profile link)
Top 1000 finish in 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013 at Google Code Jam
TopCoder (profile link) and CodeForces (profile link)
2nd place at Hackathon@HOLM (2016), 3rd place at Hackathon Darmstadt (2015)
Ukrainian, Russian
English
German
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