Vasily Kostin
research scientist, Department of Plasma Physics , Ph.D

Date of birth: June 2, 1985
Place of birth: Gorky, Soviet Union

ducation:
2008: graduated with honors from Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (faculty: Advanced School of General and Applied Physics; Master in physics).
2008—2011: postgraduate study at IAP RAS (specialty: 01.04.08 — «plasma physics»; supervisor: V. B. Gildenburg).
2012: Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics; the Ph.D. thesis: «Excitation of natural oscillations and generation of electromagnetic radiation in plasma strucutres formed by femtosecond laser pulses» (specialties: 01.04.08 — «plasma physics» and 01.04.21 — «laser physics»; supervisors: N. V. Vvedenskii and V. B. Gildenburg).

Scope of professional interests:
Plasma electrodynamics, interaction of strong electromagnetic fields with matter, ionization-induced phenomena, nonlinear dynamics.

Professional career:

2006—present — IAP RAS:
2006—2007 — senior laboratory assistant, Department of Ultrafast Processes,
2007—2008 — senior laboratory assistant, Department of Plasma Physics,
2008—2012 — junior research scientist, Department of Plasma Physics,
2012—present — research scientist, Department of Plasma Physics.

2012—present — Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod:
2012—2013 — research assistant, Department of Control Theory and Dynamics of Machines (Faculty: Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics),
2013—2015 — senior lecturer, Department of Control Theory and Dynamics of Machines (Faculty: Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics),
2015—present — senior lecturer, Department of Control Theory and Dynamics of Systems (Institute of Information Technologies, Mathematics, and Mechanics).

Awards, prizes, grants:
Presidential stipend for young scientists and postgraduates (2012—2014).

Pedagogical activities:

• Senior lecturer, Department of Control Theory and Dynamics of Machines, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod:
• Concepts of Modern Natural Science (practical classes, 2012—2014);
• Control theory (practical classes, 2015—2016);
• Linear and Nonlinear Waves (lectures and laboratory classes, 2012—2014);
• Introduction to Wave Theory (lectures and laboratory classes, 2016).

Publications:
17 articles in peer-reviewed journals

Most significant papers and results:
1. N. V. Vvedenskii, A. I. Korytin, V. A. Kostin, A. A. Murzanev, A. A. Silaev, A. N. Stepanov. Two-Color Laser-Plasma Generation of Terahertz Radiation Using a Frequency-Tunable Half Harmonic of a Femtosecond Pulse. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 055004 (2014).
2. V. A. Kostin, N. V. Vvedenskii. Dc to ac field conversion due to leaky-wave excitation in a plasma slab behind an ionization front. New J. Phys. 17, 033029 (2015).
3. V. A. Kostin, N. V. Vvedenskii. Ionization-induced conversion of ultrashort Bessel beam to terahertz pulse. Opt. Letters 35, 247 (2010).
4. V. B. Gildenburg, V. A. Kostin, I. A. Pavlichenko. Excitation of surface and volume plasmons in a metal nanosphere by fast electrons. Phys. Plasmas 23, 032120 (2016).
5. V. B. Gildenburg, V. A. Kostin, I. A. Pavlichenko. Resonances of surface and volume plasmons in atomic clusters. Phys. Plasmas 18, 092101 (2011).
6. V. A. Kostin, G. V. Osipov. Transient and periodic spatiotemporal structures in a reaction-diffusion-mechanics system. Chaos 26, 013101 (2016).
7. V. A. Kostin, N. V. Vvedenskii. Generation of terahertz radiation by superluminous ionization front. Czech. J. Phys. 56, B587 (2006).