Wednesday 5 December 2018

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 and Number 12 in my publications list (which are also open access).

Education and Employment

2019-Present 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



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




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








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.