Curriculum Vitae

Current position: Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy

Education:

• Moscow State University, Russia. M.S. (with honours) in Astronomy 2006

• Special Astrophysical Observatory. Ph. D. in Astrophysics 2009 ``candidate of sciences'' (PhD equivalent) thesis: ``Ultraluminous X-ray sources and their optical counterparts'', supervisor Prof. S. N. Fabrika

• a number of research schools in astrophysics, especially SOMA, CSC school in high-performance computing, Spanish courses in Mester Academia

Scientific employment:

• Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia: PhD student, 2006-2009

• Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia: Researcher, 2009 -- 2015 (Relativistic Astrophysics Division, research group of prof. Nikolai Shakura)

• Tuorla Observatory, Turku, Finland: post-doc, 2015 -- 2021 (high-energy research group of prof. Juri Poutanen)

• Tel Aviv University, Israel: 2021 -- present (maybe the group will have its own site one day; working with Omer Bromberg and Ehud Nakar)

Languages, human: Russian (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic, A2 level), elementary Finnish and Hebrew.

Languages, computing: mostly Python, C/C++ and Fortran. Codes written include the 1D hydro code for accretion column simulations HACol and two-dimensional spectral code SLayer designed for the flows on a spherical surface. 

Publications, talks, awards ...

Publications in general:

I have about 50 publications, the list may be viewed at ADS, most interesting were listed above. Total number of citations about 1000, Hirsch index 14.
Selected interesting publications are listed in Research Highlights. 

Selected talks on conferences and seminars:

• ``Simulating the shock dynamics of a neutron star accretion column'' P. Abolmasov & G. Lipunova, Magnetism and Accretion, Cape Town, January 14-16 2023

• ``Explaining kHz QPOs in LMXBs with inertial Rossby waves'', PA, Nättilä & Poutanen, Future of X-ray Timing, Amsterdam, October 21-25 2019

• ``Magnetic angle evolution in accreting neutron stars'' A. Biryukov & P. Abolmasov, Accretion Onto Magnetized Neutron Stars , NORDITA, Stockholm, 21-25 March 2016

• ``Structure of magnetized transonic accretion disks'' P. Abolmasov &A. Chashkina, 28 Texas symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Geneva, 13-18 December 2015

• ``Resolving the structure of QSO disks through microlensing effects'' P. Abolmasov, Black Hole Universe -- 2012, 18-22 July 2012

• ``Accretion disk structure in microlensed quasars'' P. Abolmasov & N. I. Shakura, High Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow -- 2011, Moscow, 13-16 December 2011

• ``Supercritical accretion onto compact objects'' P. Abolmasov, CompStar-2011, Catania, 3-13 May 2011

• ``Global weather forecast simulations on top of neutron stars: kilohertz QPOs as spreading-layer inertial modes''  Abolmasov, P., Nättilä, J. , Poutanen, J. The Future of X-ray Timing, Amsterdam, 21-25 October 2019

Grants and awards:

• Dynasty foundation grant, 2014

• ``Volnoe Delo'' Oleg Deripaska Foundation award, 2013

Teaching:

• Introduction to HARM code and practical sessions during  SOMA-2017 summer school

•  Theoretical astrophysics course in the University of Turku (2018-2021)

• Lecturer on "Traektoria" astrophysical schools for school children (Turku 2018 and Yerevan 2022)

Student supervision:

• Mikhail Pirogov, Saint-Petersburg University,  ``Gravitational microlensing simulations'', 2020; resulted in the beautiful code calculating microlensing maps in large-optical-depth regime 

• Bagration Megrelishvili, Moscow State University, ``Modelling pulse shapes of X-ray pulsars'' , project currently running

• Oz Amiel, Tel Aviv University, ``Instabilities in weakly magnetised jets'', project currently running

Promotion of science:

• ``Real and unreal in the `Gravity' movie'' (in Russian), 2014

• ``Did Hawking renounce black holes?'' (in Russian), 2014

• Unofficial press-release in ``gazeta.ru'': ``Lampshade for a quasar'' (in Russian), based on our paper ``Microlensing Evidence for Super-Eddington Disc Accretion in Quasars'' (Abolmasov&Shakura 2012, see above)