Denis Zolotuhin

Education:

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics: Ph.D. in Physics (Physical Electronics) Thesis title: Parameters and characteristics of beam plasma generated in fore-vacuum pressure range by plasma-cathode electron source (defended on 21st of December, 2016, in Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia). Supervisor: Professor, Dr. Sc. Efim Oks

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics: M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (with First Class Honors), average grade 5.0/5.0 (GPA 4.0)

Research Interests:

Low temperature plasma physics, electron-beam-generated plasma, plasma sterilization, plasma propulsion, vacuum arc thrusters, fore-vacuum plasma-cathode electron sources, ion mass spectrometry, inductively coupled RF plasma, plasma diagnostics: Langmuir probe, microwave diagnostics of plasma (cut-off probe and interferometry). Employment: September, 2017 –

Present:

Postdoctoral Fellow at Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA January, 2017 – Present: Senior Research Fellow at Plasma Electronics Laboratory, Physics Department at TUSUR, Tomsk, Russia October, 2013 – Present: Associate Professor, Physics Department at TUSUR, Tomsk, Russia Sept., 2013 – Dec., 2016: Junior Scientist at Plasma Electronics Laboratory, Physics Department, TUSUR August, 2013 – Dec., 2016: PhD Student, TUSUR Sept., 2015 – April, 2016: Visiting Scholar, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Scholarship in Plasma Physics Laboratory under leadership of Prof. Yakov Krasik Sept., 2010 – Sept., 2013: Technician at Plasma Electronics Laboratory, Physics Department, TUSUR