Evgeny Shulga

Detector development, construction of scientific equipment (tracking and particle identification) for particle physics and nuclear experiments, detector performance optimization, in-situ detector performance control systems, detector aging.

Physics of high-energy interactions, global event characterization, analysis of experimental data, particle tracking and particle identification at high particle density and high luminosity.

Software for fast data reconstruction (tracking, identification) and detector calibration involving AI/ML techniques.

Assistant Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory

• Leading STAR experiment data analysis (C++, Bash, HTCondor)
• Leading detector development for beam monitoring for the safety of the future Electron Ion Collider detector (C++, Bash, Python)
• Led detector development for the GridPix detector based on Timepix technology (LDRD C 2025 project)
• Design and development of silicon detectors for polarimetry
• Control-Account Manager (CAM) for ePIC detector non-beam commissioning: 17 FTE, $11M

Senior Postdoctoral Associate at Stony Brook University

• Led construction and commissioning of the sPHENIX Time Projection Chamber (TPC)
• Led technical maintenance of the TPC, worth $0.5 million, keeping it fully functioning
• Led R&D for ion-backflow (IBF) suppression for the EIC 2nd detector's GridPix TPC
• Developed the calibration strategy for detector subsystems as a member of the sPHENIX calibration task force
• Developed sPHENIX TPC calibration and tracking software (C++, Bash, HTCondor)
• Built a DAQ system for the modules testing setup at Stony Brook University: script-based control of the gas system, x-ray tube, picoammeters, and high-voltage supply (C++, Bash, Python)

Postdoctoral Researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science

• Led the laboratory effort for detector development and production for the sPHENIX TPC; produced 130 framed GEMs
• Designed and developed the bipolar mesh, improving ion-backflow suppression in the TPC down to 0 (published 2020)
• Produced detector components under ISO 6 class 1000 conditions for the sPHENIX TPC
• Developed the calibration strategy for all detector subsystems as a member of the sPHENIX calibration task force
• Developed simulations of charge-flux distributions in the detector for electric field distortion calculations (C++, Python, Bash, HTCondor)

Research Staff Member at NRNU MEPhI

• Led the analysis of experimental data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN (statistical methods, C++, ROOT)
• Maintenance and calibration of the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) of the ATLAS experiment
• Developed a unique Monte Carlo simulation of radiation detection for detector R&D, published in 2019 (statistical methods, C++, ROOT)
• Suggested and developed a social networking portal for scientific collaboration at NRNU MEPhI

Graduate student at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia (NRNU MEPhI)

Ph.D. in Physics of Atomic Nucleus and Elementary Particles: “Charged particle spectra and nuclear modification factors in proton-nucleus (p+208Pb) interactions at an energy of 5.02 TeV per pair of nucleons in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC” under the supervision of Dr. A. Romaniouk, defended 19.03.2018.

Undergraduate student at NRNU MEPhI

Diploma equivalent to the M.S. in Atomic Nucleus and Particle Physics: “Study of the four-lepton decay of the Higgs boson by Monte Carlo simulations in the ATLAS experiment at the initial LHC energies” under the supervision of L.R. Flores Castillo (University of Wisconsin), NRNU MEPhI internal supervision of S. Smirnov, defended 01.05.2010.

High school student at “Lyceum” № 1523, and high school № 1640, Moscow, Russia

Teaching Assistant at NRNU MEPhI

• Lectures and classes on “Selected chapters of nuclear physics”;
• Students supervision: bachelors 2, master 1

STAR experiment at the RHIC facility at BNL

Cold QCD group: single spin asymmetry for J/ψ production in p+p and p+Au collisions.

sPHENIX experiment at the RHIC facility at BNL

sPHENIX TPC design, construction and commissioning with the reduced Ion Back Flow; simulation studies of the space charge in the TPC.

ATLAS experiment at the LHC CERN

Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) performance studies: software development, detector performance optimization; Preparation for the TRT test beams at the SPS (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018); Research for the Heavy Ion working group: data validation, physics data analysis

Visiting scientist at CERN (2–4 months per year)

Detector maintenance and performance studies; physics data analysis; data-taking shifts.

Visiting student at the Weizmann Institute of Science (about 2 months each)

Physics data analysis; preparation of results for publication.

4th Berkeley School on Collective Dynamics in High-Energy Collisions

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States, May 14–18, 2012.

15th Moscow International ITEP School of Physics

Moscow, Russia, February 14–21, 2012.

ePIC & EICUG meeting, “Connecting the Dots: Polarimetry from the BNL Booster to the EIC”

APS Global 2025, “sPHENIX Tracking performance and Related Physics Studies”

CPAD 2024 workshop, “Viability of GridPix TPC for the EIC second detector”

CPAD 2023 workshop, “sPHENIX TPC in the 2023 commissioning run”

CPAD 2022 workshop, “Design and construction of the sPHENIX TPC”

RD51 Collaboration Meeting, “Ion backflow suppression by the passive bi-polar grid”

New Trends in HEP 2019, “Status and prospects of heavy-ion physics at the LHC”

The 2nd International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA2016), “Charged particle spectra in pPb collisions”

XXV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2015), “Charged particle production in proton-lead collisions measured by the ATLAS detector”

XV International Conference on Strangeness In Quark Matter (SQM2015), “Charged particle production in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions measured by the ATLAS detector”

Collider Cross Talk, “Charged hadron production in p+Pb collisions at √s_NN=5.02 TeV measured at high transverse momentum by ATLAS”

Nuclear Physics Section of the annual meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Charged particle production in proton-lead collisions measured by the ATLAS detector”

II International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (IS2013), “Centrality dependence of charged particle production in proton-lead collisions measured by ATLAS”

RHIC/AGS Merit Award: “In recognition of numerous key contributions to the design, construction, commissioning, and analysis of the sPHENIX time projection chamber”

The Sir Clore Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2018–2019

Competition of scientific projects carried out by young scientists: “Study of prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector”

LDRD C project: “Gating grid for the GridPix detector”

Russian Science Foundation: “Development of Transition Radiation detectors for hadron identification in TeV energy range”. Research grant number 16-12-10277 (executant)

CRDF Mini-Grant: “Gaseous Pixel Detectors for the ATLAS Inner Detector upgrade for the future sLHC at CERN”. Research grant number BG1311 (executive)

I have vast experience working in the research teams of only a few people and of dozens of scientists, engineers, and technicians. I greatly value good relations at work and do my best to prevent conflicting situations.

Working at the university and in large international collaborations, like ATLAS and sPHENIX, requires good communication skills that I fully possess. In the past years, I actively participated in hundreds of planned and ad-hoc meetings of all different levels: from very technical day-by-day discussion to meetings with management.

Scientific Computing: C++, Python (PyTorch), Git, Bash, ROOT, Garfield++, GEANT
Engineering/CAD: Altium, Inventor, LabVIEW
Platforms: UNIX, MS Windows, Linux
Other: LaTeX, MS Office

Gas-mixing systems, HV power supplies, radioactive sources, GEMs, large magnets, MCA, LabVIEW

Russian: native
English: fluent
Hebrew: beginner

• Volunteer at BNL open days: guiding groups of students and visitors
• Volunteer at CERN open days: guiding groups of students and visitors
• Development of a website for graduate and undergrad students on modern methods of experimental data analysis in particle physics: particle.mephi.ru
• Development of the NRNU MEPhI Information portal for young scientists: scif.mephi.ru

Hiking; Running; Reading books