Summary
Sergii Nichenko is a research scientist with 8+ years of experience developing and applying molecular dynamics and thermodynamic models to unravel material behavior from microscopic to macroscopic scales. Currently at ETH Zürich, he builds multiphysics tools that couple CFD, thermodynamic and phase-field modelling to study reactor water chemistry and CRUD processes, and previously led software-driven studies of irradiated nuclear fuel and molten salts at PSI. He is both a hands-on developer of MD (AMoDy) and thermodynamic (ThermoSOL/GEMS) software and a scientist who embeds novel data-processing algorithms directly into modeling workflows. Comfortable managing international projects and multidisciplinary teams, he blends experimental insight with theoretical rigor and has a track record of translating simulation code into practical understanding of extreme conditions. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he combines deep thermophysics expertise with production-grade scientific software engineering, enabling reproducible, extensible research tools.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Thermophysics and industrial thermoenergetics, A, Ph.D., Thermophysics and industrial thermoenergetics, A at Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German