Vladimir Zhdankin

I received my BS (2011) and PhD (2015) in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder (2015-2018), a NASA Einstein postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University (2018-2021), and a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute (2021-2023). I will be joining the physics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024 as an assistant professor. My research mainly focuses on the basic physics of plasma turbulence, including in collisionless and high-energy (relativistic, radiative) regimes. I apply theory and kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to understand the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of turbulent plasmas, including intermittency, nonthermal particle acceleration, radiative emission, and instabilities.