About
Employment:
- Neutronics Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Second Target Station, Oak Ridge, TN, 08/2023 – present
- Applications Physicist II, Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA, 09/2015–Present
- Applications Physicist I, Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA, 09/2012–09/2015
- Research Associate, Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA, 02/2010–09/2012
- Senior Scientist, Scientist, Junior Scientist, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, 05/1994–02/2010
Education:
- PhD, Philosophy of Science and Technology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, 2017
- PhD, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, 2005
- MSc, Nuclear Technology, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia, 1994
Mentoring:
- Mentor, summer undergraduate intern project (SIST program) for the Mu2e experiment, 2017
- Mentor, summer undergraduate intern project (SULI program) for the RedTop experiment, 2016
- Mentor, summer undergraduate intern project (SULI and IMSA programs) for the Mu2e experiment, 2015
- Mentor, summer undergraduate intern project (SULI program) for the Mu2e experiment, 2014
Instructional Experience:
- Illinois Institute of Technology, November 2017
Presented colloquium for faculty and students Learning from Physics Experiments: Challenges and Solutions. - Brno University of Technology, University of West Bohemia, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Prague, and Nuclear Physics Institute, Rez, Czech Republic, 2011
Invited to present series of lectures on Mu2e experiment for both faculty and students within educational project CENEN-NET. - Moscow Institute of Radio Equipment, Electronics, and Automation, Dubna, Russia, 2006 – 2008
Adjunct Instructor
Developed syllabi, selected appropriate instructional methods and assessment approaches for graduate level courses.
Courses taught: Physics for Enrollees and Theoretical Basics of Electrotechnology - High School of Humanities and Aesthetics #11, Dubna, Russia, 2002 – 2003
Adjunct Teacher
Delivered instruction on multiple branches of physics including mechanics, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics, developing syllabi and assessment methods.
Selected Academic highlights:
Bruno Pontecorvo Fellowship for young scientists, Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 2002
Membership in associations:
American Physical Society, American Nuclear Society, Philosophy of Science Association
Grants:
- NSF Travel Grant for the 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association held in Baltimore, Maryland, November 11–14, 2021.
- NSF Travel Grant for the 2022 HSS Annual Meeting, 17-20 November 2022, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Soros Grants (1994-1995) and NATO Travel Grants (2006-2007) in nuclear physics research as a member of the teams.
- Travel support from NSF to attend 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Rio-de-Janeiro and present a talk on history of physics, 2017.
- Grant in Aid of the Center for History of Physics, 2017.
- RFBR project #18-011-00046 “Sociological and historical study of the first proto-megascience chain of joint JINR (Dubna) – Fermilab (USA) experiments in high-energy physics (1970-1978)”, 2018-2020.