Introduction

Dr. Igor Shovkovy is a theoretical physicist with expertise in theoretical nuclear physics, high-energy physics, and condensed matter physics. He is interested in a range of problems related to the matter under extreme conditions inside neutron stars, quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, physics of the early universe, as well as electronic properties of novel condensed matter materials (e.g., graphene, Dirac, and Weyl semimetals, as well as topological insulators), aspects of mathematical physics, etc. Prof. Shovkovy received a visiting professorship award for senior international scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. He published over 120 articles, reviews, book chapters, and dozens of contributions in conference proceedings. He is one of the co-authors of the book "Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals"published by World Scientific in 2021.

Professor Shovkovy is known for his work on magnetic catalysis of symmetry breaking in quantum field theory and its applications in graphene, for studies of color superconductivity in dense quark matter, as well as his research on chiral (quasi-) relativistic plasmas. For additional details, see Research Highlights.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1997

M.Sc. in Physics, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1993

For more details, see Resume

External links: Google Scholar or ORCID Profile

Research Group

Postdocs

• • • Dr. Ritesh Ghosh (Nov. 2023 - Oct. 2025)

Former Ph.D. students

• Denys Rybalka (Aug. 2015 - May 2019), Ph. D. thesis defended on March 25, 2019

• Lifang Xia (Aug. 2013 - May 2016), Ph. D. thesis defended on April 13, 2016

• Xinyang Wang (Aug. 2009 - Aug. 2013), Ph. D. thesis defended on July 2, 2013

• Lang Yu (Jun. 2010 - May 2012), Ph. D. thesis defended on April 6, 2012

Selected Publications

Book

• • • Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals, E. V. Gorbar, V. A. Miansky, I. A. Shovkovy, and P. O. Sukhachov, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2021) ISBN: 978-981-120-734-1, DOI: 10.1142/11475

Reviews

• • • Anomalous plasma: chiral magnetic effect and all that, I. A. Shovkovy, published in Peter Suranyi 87th Birthday Festschrift A Life in Quantum Field Theory, edited by P. Argyres, G. Dunne, G. Semenoff, and R. Wijewardhana, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2022) pp. 291-316
      e-Print Archive: arXiv:2111.11416

    • Quantum field theory in a magnetic field: From quantum chromodynamics to graphene and Dirac semimetals, V. A. Miansky and I. A. Shovkovy, Physics Reports 576 (2015) pp. 1-209
      e-Print Archive: arXiv:1503.00732

    • Magnetic Catalysis: A Review, I. A. Shovkovy, Lect. Notes Phys. 871 (Springer, Berlin, 2013) pp. 13-49
      e-Print Archive: arXiv:1207.5081

    • Two lectures on color superconductivity, I. A. Shovkovy, Found. Phys. 35 (2005) 1309
      e-Print Archive: nucl-th/0410091

For more details, see Publications

External links: INSPIRE, arXiv, ADS, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar

Presentations

For details, see Presentations

Teaching Experience

2008-present: Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, AZ

2006-2008: Western Illlinois University, Macomb, IL

For more details, see Teaching

Research Highlights

For details, see Research Highlights