Date of Birth: February 9, 1990
Place of Birth: Botfalva, Ukraine
Marital status: married
Positions and degrees
- 01/12/2020 – present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Université de Rennes, Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) – UMR 6251, Rennes, France, in the group of François LIQUE
- 2019 – 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Université Le Havre Normandie, LOMC – UMR 6294, Le Havre, France, in the group of François LIQUE
- 2017 – 2019: Assistant Research Fellow, MTA ATOMKI (Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Debrecen, Hungary. Research advisors: Zoltán JUHÁSZ and Erika BENE
- 2015 – 2017: Visiting PhD Student (IVF EAP Scholarship), MTA ATOMKI (Institute for Nuclear Research, currently HUN-REN ATOMKI) Debrecen, Hungary. Research advisor: Erika BENE
- 2019: PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Institute of Electron Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Research advisor: Eugene Yu. REMETA
- 2013: MSc in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude), Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Grants and fellowships
- 2017 – 2019: “Young Researcher” Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2015 – 2017: International Visegrad Fund Eastern European Partnership Scholarship (twice for 10-months periods)
- 2013 – 2015: “Collegium Talentum” Scholarship Program
- 2012 – 2013: Prominent Transborder Students Fellowship Program
- 2011 – 2012: “Márton Áron” Student Excellence Support Programme
Teaching and Mentoring
- Autumn Semester 2023: Responsible for teaching the course “Monte Carlo Simulations” for Master 2 Medical Physics students at Univ Rennes.
- Spring Semester 2022: Mentor for a Bachelor (Year 2) internship project at the University of Rennes 1, IPR.
- Spring Semester 2021: Mentor for a Bachelor (Year 3) internship project at the University of Rennes 1, IPR.
Short-term visits
- Spring 2022: University of Szeged (Hungary), group of Gábor CZAKÓ (2 weeks)
- Autumn 2022: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland), group of Dariusz KĘDZIERA (2 weeks)
Reviewer activities
- Scientific Reports
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- ACS Earth & Space Chemistry
- International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
- Canadian Journal of Physics
Skills and expertise
- Programming languages: Fortran, Python (NumPy), C, Bash, UNIX shell
- Computational and quantum chemistry: MOLPRO, GAUSSIAN, GAMESS-US, ORCA, NWCHEM, CRYSTAL, QUANTUM ESPRESSO
- Quantum scattering and dynamics: HIBRIDON, MOLSCAT, EIKONXS, ELSEPA
- Radiative transfer modelling: RADEX
- Parallel programming and HPC: OpenMP/MPI, MKL, SLURM/SGE job schedulers
- Git and GitHub version/revision control
- Data analysis and visualisation: Matplotlib (Python), OriginLab, SciDavis, MATLAB
- Molecular visualisation: Chemcraft, Avogadro, GaussView, MacMolPlt
- Numerical environments: Wolfram Mathematica, MATLAB, GNU Octave, Mathcad
- Bibliographic data management: Zotero, Mendeley, BibTeX
- Word processing and office tools: LaTeX, Markdown, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office
Languages
Hungarian: Native language
English: Fully proficient
Ukrainian: Fully proficient
French: Intermediate level
Russian: Basic/Intermediate level
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