Volodymyr Vovchenko
Assistant Professor at University of Houston
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVolodymyr Vovchenko is an Assistant Professor of Physics and theoretical nuclear physicist with a decade of experience modeling and simulating heavy-ion collisions for experiments at facilities like the LHC and RHIC. He combines analytic theory, scientific computing, and data visualization to develop and test models of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, with a PhD focused on QCD applications of the quantum van der Waals equation. His career spans research and postdoctoral roles at leading institutions including Berkeley Lab, Goethe University, and the Institute for Nuclear Theory, and he has hands-on software engineering experience building simulation and analysis code. Comfortable bridging theory and computation, he often translates complex physics into reproducible code—aptly summarized on GitHub as “(De)coding physics.” Based in Houston, he brings both foundational theoretical insight and practical numerical expertise to collaborations probing the smallest scales of matter.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (14)
nuclear-physics10
sampler9
collision8
simulation8
modeling8
hydrodynamics7
audio6
dynamics6
opengl5
visualization5
cuda5
molecular-dynamics-simulation4
gpu3
gpu-acceleration2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vlvovch/CSM
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
vlvovch/lennard-jones-cuda
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Molecular dynamics simulation and visualization of the Lennard-Jones system utilizing CUDA-enabled GPU's
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cudamolecular-dynamics-simulationgpu-accelerationmolecular-dynamicsgpu
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