CV
Academic degrees
2021, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (=Habilitation)
Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)
Thesis: Dynamic evolution of asteroids under non-gravitational forces
Advisor: Prof. I. Belskaya
2012, PhD in Astronomy (cum laude)
Heidelberg University (Germany)
Thesis: Modelling the Milky Way disc
Advisor Prof. A. Just
2008, Master degree with honors in specialty Experimental nuclear physics and plasma physics
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
2006, Bachelor degree with honors in specialty Applied Physics
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
Job Experience
2014-present
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
School of Physics and Technology, Department of Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Higher Mathematics
and School of Physics, Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics
- associate professor (docent) (2014-2018, 2020-present)
- habilitation candidate (doctorand) (2018-2020)
2013-present
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
Institute of Astronomy
- leading scientific researcher (2022-present)
- senior scientific researcher (2020-2021)
- scientific researcher (2018, 2019)
- junior scientific researcher (2013-2015)
2013-2019 (3.5 years total)
University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
- research associate (2017-2018)
- visiting scholar (2013-2014, 2017)
- short-term visitor (2016, 2018-2019)
2009-2022 (4 years total)
Heidelberg University (Germany)
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut
- short-term visitor (2017, 2022)
- postdoc (2012-2013)
- teaching assistant (2010-2011)
- PhD student (2009-2012)
2008-2009
National Science Center "Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology" (Ukraine)
Akhiezer Institute for Theoretical Physics
- research engineer
Honours and Scholarships
2019, Asteroid 17700 Oleksiygolubov
2019, Grant for the visit of Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (France)
2017, SFB grant for the visit of Heidelberg University (Germany)
2015, 3rd V. N. Karazin prize of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2009-2012, PhD Scholarship of Max-Planck Society
2005, Scholarship of Kharkiv Sapronov Charitable Foundation
Professional Service and Organization Membership
Reviewer for Astrophysical Journal (impact factor 8.4), Astrophysical Journal Letters (7.7), Astronomy & Astrophysics (5.6), Astronomical Journal (5.5), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2.0), New Astronomy (1.2), Emergent Scientist.
Science collaborator in OSIRIS-REx space mission (NASA, USA), since 2018
Associate member of RAVE (Radial Velocity Experiment), 2011-2013
Co-organizer of conferences Athmosphereless Solar System Bodies in the Space Exploration Era (2018, Ukraine - LOC member), Multiwavelength astrophysics from radio to gamma-rays (2018, Ukraine - LOC member), International Conference for Young Professionals in Physics and Technology (2021, Ukraine - program committee member)
Chairperson at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021, USA, online format), the International Conference for Young Professionals in Physics and Technology (2021, Ukraine)
Administrator of the Ukrainian section of the site of the International Physicists' Tournament
Teaching
Heidelberg University, Germany: teaching assistant in Theoretical Astrophysics (2010)
Department of Astronomy, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine: lecturer in History of Astronomy (2014), General Astrophysics (2020, 2021), Problems of Modern Astrophysics (2020, 2021)
School of Physics and Technology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine: lecturer in Partial Differential Equations (2021), Numerical Methods (2016, 2021), Probability Theory (2015, 2016), Analytic Geometry (2014-2016), Continuum Mechanics (2015), Introduction to Astrophysics and Cosmology (2015, 2018), practical exercises in Complex Analysis (2015, 2018), Theoretical Mechanics (2018), Mathematical Statistics (2018), Analytic Geometry (2014-2016), Differential Equations (2014, 2015, 2021), Quantum Mechanics (2015)
Advising 6 bachelor’s theses and 3 master’s thesis
Organizer and Instructor of Kharkiv Winter School in Astrophysics (2017), Kharkiv Summer School in the Solar System Physics (2018)
Team leader of team Ukraine at the International Physicists' Tournament (2015, 2017, both times 1st place).
Jury member at the International Physicists' Tournament (2015, 2017, 2020), as well as other school and university olympiads and tournaments of regional and national level.
Outreach
Popular science talks at the Free University Maidan Monitoring (2017, 2019, 2020), Intellect Networking (2017, 2020), 15x4 (2019), Asteroid Day (2019-2021), Kharkiv Night of Science (2021)
Interviews for “Ukrainian Radio”, news agency “Objectiv”, newspaper “Kharkiv University”
Scientific editor of the Ukrainian edition of the “Space Encyclopaedia” issued by printing house “Pegas” (Ukraine)
Patroller in Ukrainian Wikipedia, closer in Russian Wikipedia, principal author of over 300 Wikipedia articles