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Personal information

Name

Volodymyr Vovchenko

Address

Physics Department
University of Houston
Science and Research Building 1
3507 Cullen Blvd
77204 Houston, TX, USA

Research Interests

Heavy-Ion Collisions; QCD Equation of State; Scientific Computing and Visualization

Positions

From Dec 2022

University of Houston
Physics Department
Assistant Professor

Apr-Nov 2022

University of Washington, Seattle
Institute for Nuclear Theory
Research Assistant Professor

2020-2022

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nuclear Science Division
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow (Humboldt Foundation)

2017-2020

Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Associate

Education

2014-2018

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

2011-2013

MSc, Physics; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dmitry Anchishkin

2007-2011
BSc, Physics; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Experience

2014-2017

Member of the CBM collaboration at FAIR-GSI
On-line event reconstruction and physics analysis for heavy-ion collisions

Aug-Sep 2014

Summer student at CERN School of Computing
Braga, Portugal
Intensive lectures and exercises in different subjects of high-performance scientific computing

Jul-Nov 2013

Software engineer at Help-Micro Company
Kyiv, Ukraine
Software development for cash registers

Mar-Apr 2012

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

Honors

2019

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.

2018

Prize of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of Goethe University for Young Scientists for best dissertation in the natural sciences. (link)

2018

Giersch-Excellence-Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis.

2016 & 2017

Giersch-Excellence-Grant for outstanding work and progress in the PhD thesis project within the past year.

2013

Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the best scientific works of young scientists and students in 2012.

2011

Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Program “100+100+100” for studying and training abroad in 2011/2012).

Professional Activities

Publications

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)

Presentations

Around 40 talks at international conferences and workshops, including Quark Matter, SQM, CPOD, XQCD, ~15 of them invited. (link to full list)

Teaching

Tutorials in various Theoretical Physics courses for undergraduates at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2016-2018

External service

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

Computer skills

Languages

C/C++, Java, Python, Mathematica, LaTeX, CERN-ROOT, Fortran, CUDA, OpenGL, Qt

Activities
Source codes

GitHub (profile link)

Competetive programming

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)

Languages

Native

Ukrainian, Russian

Advanced

English

Basic

German


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