My CV

I just had a paper accepted and was updating my publications list, so I thought I'd post my full CV for the pedalo's worth of people googling me.

For anyone interested, I would recommend Number 5, Number 12 and Number 16 in my publications list (which are also open access).

Education and Employment

2024-Present	Teaching Fellow - School of Computing, Mathematics and Data Science, Coventry University High Performance Computing
2019- 2024	Postdoctoral Research Associate - Division of Mathematics, University of Dundee Simulations of the slow Solar wind
2018- 2019	Postdoctoral Research Associate - Space Research Centre, University of Leicester SMILE & SVOM space missions
2016- 2018	Postdoctoral Research Associate - MIT PSFC - Seconded to Joint European Torus Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic
2012- 2016	PhD in Plasma Physics - York Plasma Institute, University of York Thesis title: “Extreme ultraviolet lasers and their interactions with matter”
2008- 2012	MPhys - University of Oxford First Class Master’s thesis title: “Phase retrieval techniques for longitudinal bunch profiling using coherent Smith-Purcell Radiation”

Selected publications

1. V. Aslanyan and G. J. Tallents “Local thermodynamic equilibrium in rapidly heated high energy density plasmas” Physics of Plasmas 21, 062702 (2014)

2. V. Aslanyan and G. J. Tallents “Opacity bleaching by extreme ultraviolet radiation incident on solid density targets” Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers

3. A. K. Rossall, V. Aslanyan, G. J. Tallents, I. Kuznetsov, J. J. Rocca, and C. S. Menoni “Ablation of Submicrometer Holes Using an Extreme-Ultraviolet Laser” Physical Review Applied 3, 064013 (2015)

4. V. Aslanyan and G. J. Tallents “Ionization rate coefficients in warm dense plasmas” Physical Review E 91, 063106 (2015)

5. V. Aslanyan, I. Kuznetsov, H. Bravo, et al. “Ablation and transmission of thin solid targets irradiated by intense extreme ultraviolet laser radiation” APL Photonics 1, 066101 (2016)

6. V. Aslanyan and G. J. Tallents “Efficient Calculation of Atomic Rate Coefficients in Dense Plasmas” AIP Conference Proceedings 1811, 080001 (2017)

7. V. Aslanyan, A. G. Aslanyan, and G. J. Tallents “Efficient calculation of degenerate atomic rates by numerical quadrature on GPUs” Computer Physics Communications 219, 261 (2017)

8. V. Aslanyan, M. Porkolab, et al. “Progress and first measurements from the upgraded Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic on JET” Proceedings of the 44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (2017)

9. V. Aslanyan, S. E. Sharapov, D. A. Spong and M. Porkolab “Two Species Drag/Diffusion Model for Energetic Particle Driven Modes” Physics of Plasmas 24, 122511 (2017)

10. F. Nabais, V. Aslanyan, D. Borba, et al. “TAE stability calculations compared to TAE antenna results in JET” Nuclear Fusion 58, 082007 (2018)

11. V. Aslanyan, S. Taimourzadeh, L. Shi, et al. “Gyrokinetic simulations of Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmodes excited by energetic ions and external antennas on the Joint European Torus” Nuclear Fusion 59, 026008 (2019)

12. V. Aslanyan, K. Keresztes, C. Feldman, et al. “Design and implementation of electron diverters for lobster eye space-based X-ray optics” Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 124502 (2019)

13. V. Aslanyan, D. I. Pontin, et al. “Effects of Pseudostreamer Boundary Dynamics on Heliospheric Field and Wind” The Astrophysical Journal 909, 10 (2021)

14. V. Aslanyan, D. I. Pontin, et al. “The Dynamic Coupling of Streamers and Pseudostreamers to the Heliosphere” The Astrophysical Journal 929, 185 (2022)

15. V. Aslanyan, D. I. Pontin, et al. “The Dynamic Structure of Coronal Hole Boundaries” The Astrophysical Journal 931, 96 (2022)

16. V. Aslanyan, K. A. Meyer, et al. “A Near-half-century Simulation of the Solar Corona” The Astrophysical Journal Letters 961, L3 (2024)

17. V. Aslanyan, R. B. Scott, et al. “A New Field Line Tracer for the Study of Coronal Magnetic Topologies” The Astrophysical Journal 971, 137 (2024)

Selected conference attendance

COSPAR 2022 - 44th Scientific Assembly (Athens, Greece, July 2022) - contributed talk.

59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2017) - contributed talk.

44th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (Belfast, UK, June 2017) - poster presentation.

58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (San Jose, California, October 2016) - poster presentation.

19th International Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas (Paris, April 2016) - contributed talk.

57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (Savannah, Georgia, November 2015) - contributed talk.

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced School on Modern Methods in Plasma Spectroscopy (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, March 2015) - poster presentation.

14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (Colorado State University, May 2014) - poster presentation.