Alexander Nozik

Director of the centre

PhD in particle physics.
Director of Scientific Programming Centre.
Teacher of General Physics, Data Analysis and Kotlin at MIPT.

I am against the war in Ukraine. It must be stopped.

I did not vote for Putin. I do not think that Putin is the legitimate president of Russia.

I hope for the better future. I publicly express my position in my twitter.

I do not speak for the whole laboratory.

About me

When I finished the school, I had two choices: I liked physics and I liked programming. In the end I decided that physics is more interesting. Now I am doing programming in physics. Currently, I am doing software and physical data analysis for a number of experiments in particle physics (Troitsk nu-mass, IAXO and other experiments). I am leading development of scientific libraries and leading the development of new simulation software and models.

The laboratory and the centre at MIPT, we created in the last years include young passionate researchers in different fields. My aim is to prepare the new generation of researchers, familiar with modern scientific software tools and able to develop new ones.

Social

Education

Lyceum “2nd school” 1997 - 2002
MIPT (bachelor, problems of physics and energetics) 2002 - 2006. Finished with honors.
MIPT (master, fundamental particles and cosmology) 2006 - 2008
PhD in physics, INR RAS 2012 .

Work experience

INR RAS Laboratory assistant, 2004–2008
INR RAS Researcher, 2008–2012
INR RAS Senior researcher, 2012–present
MIPT Assistant, 2013–2018, The department of general physics laboratory practice and seminars. Special courses on programming and statistics.
MIPT Associate professor, 2019–present
MIPT Senior researcher, 2019–2022, Deputy head of the nuclear physics methods laboratory.
JetBrains Research, 2020–2022, Head of the research group.
SPC MIPT, 2022-present, Director.

Other experience

Society of Scientific Workers, 2012-2022, member, board member, secretary of the board.
Google Developer Expert in Kotlin, 2021-2022.

The code

Private GitHub account: https://github.com/altavir (blocked by GitHub for working at MIPT).
The Centre GitHub account: https://github.com/SciProgCentre

Achievements

The best (until 2020) limit on electron neutrino mass: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5034
The best limit on sterile neutrino contribution to the electron neutrino with masses up to 2 keV: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5687, https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10779
The data acquisition and analysis software in Troitsk nu-mass experiment.
The Reactor model for TGF generation in thunderclouds.
KMath library: https://github.com/mipt-npm/kmath.

Publications

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9075-0080
Scopus ID: 24071435300
Web of Science ID: H-3844-2019

Keywords

Scientific programming, Java, Kotlin, Particle physics, Neutrino, Data analysis, Mathematical statistics