Career in weeks

Experimental physicist who builds particle detectors and the software around them. Looking for R&D roles in instrumentation, data or ML.

Each box is one week, each row a calendar year: 1,153 weeks in physics so far.

This week · 30 Oct 2026Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Periods

Early years and school, Moscow · 1987–2004
Undergraduate, NRNU MEPhI · 2004–2010 · 294 weeks
Simulated Higgs → four-lepton decays for ATLAS at early LHC energies (M.S. thesis).
- Monte Carlo
- C++
- ROOT
- ATLAS
PhD and research staff, NRNU MEPhI · 2010–2018 · 410 weeks
Measured charged-particle production in p+Pb collisions at the LHC; maintained and calibrated the ATLAS TRT.
- Data analysis
- Statistics
- C++/ROOT
- Detector calibration
- ATLAS paper on charged-particle production in p+Pb collisions (Phys. Lett. B) · 2016
Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science · 2018–2022 · 197 weeks
Led GEM production for the sPHENIX TPC (130 GEMs) and designed the bipolar mesh that cut ion backflow.
- Detector R&D
- Clean-room production
- Simulation
- Python
- PhD defended · 19 March 2018
- Sir Clore Postdoctoral Fellowship · 2018
- First transition-radiation spectra with a Timepix3 pixel sensor (NIM A) · 2019
- Passive bipolar grid paper (IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.) · 2021
Senior Postdoc, Stony Brook University · 2022–2024 · 104 weeks
Led construction and commissioning of the sPHENIX TPC; RHIC/AGS Merit Award 2023.
- Project leadership
- Commissioning
- DAQ
- Tracking software
- sPHENIX TPC commissioned; RHIC/AGS Merit Award · 2023
Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory · 2024–now · 148 weeks
Lead STAR data analysis and EIC beam-monitoring detector R&D; CAM for ePIC non-beam commissioning.
- Team leadership
- Detector R&D
- Data analysis
- C++/Python
- LDRD grant: gating grid for the GridPix detector · 2025