Curriculum Vitae of Alexander MOLOCHKOV

⊲ Personal information Name: MOLOCHKOV Alexander E-mail: [email protected] WoS ResearcherID: A-8594-2014 Place of birth: Vladivostok, Russia Date of birth: 11 February 1970 Nationality: Russian Family status: married, two children

⊲ Administrative status Principal/Research Status: Principal Researcher at Far Eastern Federal University Establishment: Far Eastern Federal University Vladivostok, Russia Temporal/Teaching Status: Professor (2016 till present) Establishment: Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia

⊲ Professional experience 2019 - present Head of Paciﬁc Quantum Center, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia 2014 - present Chief Researcher, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia 2011 - present Head of Laboratory of Physics of living matter, School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia 2011 - present Vice director for research of the School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia 2009 - present Professor of the Chair of Theoretical and Nuclear Physics, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia 2017 - 2019 Head of Center of Chiral Biophotonics, School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia 2009 - 2019 Leading Researcher, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia 2007 – 2011 Dean of Physics Department Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia 2004 – 2009 Associated Professor of Chair of Theoretical and Nuclear Physics, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia 2003 – 2004 Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Theoretical and Nuclear Physics, Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok, Russia 2003 – 2004 Senior Researcher of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 2002 – 2003 Center of Excellence Professor in Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, 2

Osaka, Japan 2000 – 2001 Post Doc in Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy 2001 – 2003 Senior Researcher in Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physiscs, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 1998 – 2001 Researcher in Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physiscs, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 1994 – 1998 Junior Researcher in Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physiscs, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 1992 – 1994 Junior Researcher, Chair of Theoretical and Nuclear Physics, Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok, Russia

⊲ Academic degrees Doctor of science 2009 Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia ❜ Ph.D. 1998 Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physiscs, ❜ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia Master 1992 Chair of Theoretical and Nuclear Physics, ❜ Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok, Russia

⊲ Awards and Honours: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany. (2003)

⊲ Hobbies and sports: Aikido, Sailing Sport and Free-diving

⊲ Scientiﬁc activity, key numbers

Publications 44 (in WoS journals) 66 (total number of publications according INSPIRE)

⊲ Scientific activity, keywords High energy physics; quantum field theory; quark-gluon plasma; heavy-ion collisions; local parity violation; strong magnetic fields; numerical simulations of lattice gauge theories; topological objects in field theories: instantons, monopoles, vortices; non-perturbative phenomena; phase transitions in field theories; Casimir effect. 3

⊲ Current research interests My current research interest are in the interdisciplinary area that brings together ex- periences gained in the theoretical high-energy and particle physics, experimental and theoretical solid-state and protein physics, what can establish a new domain of interdisciplinary research that will have an innovative impact on material science, biology, pharmacy and medicine. It is interesting to address, on the same footing, problems in biological, high-energy and solid-state branches of physics in utilising a unifying role of numerical simulations to be done in lattice gauge theories. The gauge theories have a plethora of interesting physical phenomena such as appearance of anomalies, thermodynamic phases, finite-size Casimir effects and existence of topologically stable classical solutions. My present research’s main directions are in anomalous transport, zero-point energies in particle physics and quantum field theory, and, also, its application to problems of cosmology, high energy and condensed matter physics, and protein folding in biology. Understanding the properties of quark-gluon plasma at finite density is one of the most challenging modern high-energy physics tasks. Due to the so-called sign problem, dense plasma’s physical characteristics cannot be studied even with the most advanced numerical methods. My research in this direction is concentrated on the employment of the lat- est information processing methods for the mathematical study of the finite-temperature properties of QCD plasma at a high baryon chemical potential, corresponding to the con- ditions created in central and off-center collisions of heavy ions at modern accelerators. I am interested in the development of the Monte-Carlo numerical simulation enhanced by machine learning methods such as Deep Neural Networks enhanced by Supervised Learn- ing, and Generative Adversarial Networks in conjunction with Variational Autoencoders. Using this approach, I am studying the QCD phase diagram and its thermodynamic properties with nonzero density, magnetic field, and high temperature, which are currently unavailable for either analytical or numerical approaches. Within the anomalous transport phenomena part, I study the anomalous occurrence of electric currents due to the conformal anomaly, gravitational and electromagnetic fields, and their possible experimental manifestations: the appearance of an anomalous electric current and anomalous magnetization of physical systems during their deformations, new types of hydrodynamic excitations (anomalous sound) in the system, and attenuation acoustic oscillations due to the conformal anomaly. The work is carried out both analyti- cally in the framework of effective infrared field theories and numerical methods based on the first principles of the theory using supercomputers. The part of my research program, related to the Casimir effect, includes an in-depth study of different external environments given by temperature and background magnetic fields, highlight effects on the Casimir forces due to the geometry and dimensionality of the systems (relevant to particle physics and cosmology problems), and, to the traditionally posed questions on the geometry and materials of the nanosized cavities in quantum materials (graphene, Dirac and Weil semimetals). One of the promising applications is a study of the phase transitions due to the Casimir effect in the bag models of hadrons. Within the protein folding part of my research, I am interested in study the structure and dynamics of the α-helixes, β-sheets, and transient structures for the representative set of proteins: myoglobin, ribonuclease, and some receptor proteins. The stability of the protein tertiary molecular structures against quantum/thermal fluctuations are to be explored. Another exciting subject - the interaction of proteins with external irradiation. In particular, I am interested in analysis of the activation of membrane proton pumps (rhodopsins) and the topological mechanism of charge transport in biopolymers. 4

⊲ Management of research (from 2008) One of the important results of the research collaboration development is the new mul- tidisciplinary research center - Paciﬁc Quantum Center. It was founded and developed under my supervision. The research part of the center consists of two laboratories - 1) Mathematical and numerical modeling of complex systems; 2) Physics of living matter. The staﬀ of the Laboratories is about 30 researchers. From 2015, the annual budget that the Laboratories are receiving on a competitive basis from external sources is about 500 thousand euros per year.

Leader: Project “Development of the fundamental foundations of advanced quantum (2020-2023) materials using high-performance computing and machine learning”, research project supported by Ministry of Science and Higher education (Russia) within the framework of the State Assignment. Leader: Project ” Phase diagram of dense quark-gluon plasma from first-principles (2019-2021) simulations enhanced by machine learning techniques.” Research project supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the initiative ”Fundamental properties and phase transformations of hadron and quark-gluon matter: facilities of the Mega-Science class - NICA Complex”. Leader: Project “Modelling of the tertiary and quaternary structure of (2017-2019) proteins by methods of gauge field theory”, research project supported by Ministry of Science and Higher education (Russia) within the framework of the State Assignment. Leader: Chinese - Russian project “Conducting joint research on modelling the structure, (2015-2017) dynamics and properties of proteins in the framework of lattice gauge field theory in conjunction with the Beijing Institute of Technology” International research project supported within the framework of the Federal Target Program ” Research and development on priority directions of scientific-technological complex of Russia for 2014-2020” (Russia). Key researcher: Project ”Investigation of quark-gluon plasma by the methods of lattice QCD” (2015-2017) supported by the grant 15-12-20008 of the Russian Science Foundation, Russia Responsible: Founding director of the Pacific Quantum Center of the (2019 - present) Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Responsible: Founding director of the Center of Chiral Biophotonics of the (2017 - 2019) Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Responsible: Director of the Laboratory of Physics Live Matter, School of Biomedicine (2015 - present) Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Responsible: Leader of Nuclear Medicine Project, (2011-2014) Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Responsible: Dean of Physics Department, (2006 - 2015) Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Responsible: Member of Scientific Council of University (2013-present) Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. 5

⊲ Organisation of conferences Member of Nobel Symposium 167 ”Chiral Matter”, International Committee: ❜ Stockholm, June 28 - July 2, 2021. Member of Workshop ”Integrability and Chaos in Multicomponent Systems”, Organising Committee: ❜ Vladivostok, Russia, 2-7 October 2017 International Workshop “Monte Carlo methods in computer simulations Chairman: of complex systems”, ❜ Vladivostok, Russia, 2014 - 2017. Scientific Secretary: 15th International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics ❜Problems: Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics. 11-16 Sep 2000. Dubna, Russia Scientific Secretary: 14th International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics ❜Problems: Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics. 17-22 Aug 1998. Dubna, Russia Scientific Secretary: 13th International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics ❜Problems: Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics. 2-7 Sep 1996. Dubna, Russia

⊲ Coordination of PhD Theses Direction: Mr. GOY Vladimir (Vladivostok, Russia) (2011-2015) Title: “Study of SU (2) gluodynamics in the framework of the lattice approach”. Direction: Mr. NIKOLAEV Alexander (Vladivostok, Russia) (2013-2017) Title: “Study of lattice quantum field theory with a gauge group SU (2) at nonzero baryon density”. Direction: Mr. BOYDA Denis (Vladivostok, Russia) (2014-2018) Title: “Study of strongly interacting systems within lattice quantum field theory” Co-Direction: Mr. BEGUN Alexander (Vladivostok, Russia - Tours, France) (2017 - 2020) ”Non-hermitian hamiltonian systems” Co-Direction: Mr. KORNEEV Anatoly (Vladivostok, Russia - Tours, France) (2017 - 2020) ” Spheromaks in non-centrosymmetric superconductors” Direction: Mr. GERSIMENYUK Nicolai (Vladivostok, Russia) (2018 - 2021) ”Lee-Yang Zeros in QCD at finite density and temperature” Direction: Mr. TANASHKIN Alexei (Vladivostok, Russia) (2018 - 2021) ”Lattice field theory in curvature space” Direction: Mr. LYUBIMOV Sergei (Vladivostok, Russia) (2019 - 2022) ”Machine learning in lattice gauge theory”

⊲ Participation in the thesis juries 2014 - present Member of the Dissertation Council for Mathematical modelling in Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok, Russia 2012 - present Member of the Dissertation Council for Theoretical Physics in Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia

15.09.2020 Member of the PhD examination Jury for Theoretical Physics in Tours University, Tours, France

⊲ Teaching and educational activities 6

2004 - 2008 Dozent position in the Far East Federal University 2006 - 2012 Dean of Physics Department of the Far Eastern Federal University 2008 - present Professor of Theoretical Physics Chair in the Far Eastern Federal University 2004 - present Supervising PhD students - Goy V.A. (defended in 2015), Bekzhanov A.V., Yuriev S.A., Nikolaev A.A. (defended in 2017), Boyda D.L. (defended in 2018), Silionov V.I., Begun A.M., Korneev A., Geraseminyuk N., Fadeev D., Polikarpov A. 2004 - present Supervising master theses of graduate students - 15. 2004 - present Lecture courses - Quantum Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Geometric Methods of Mathematical Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics, Mathematical Modelling of Complex Systems

Invited talks (last 3 years)

1. ”Study of the phase diagram of dense quark-gluon plasma from the first principles of the theory, enhanced by machine learning methods” Plenary talk presented at the Conference ”RFBR Grants for NICA”, Dubna, Russia; 2020.10.20-23 2. ”Nonperturbative Casimir Effects in Lattice Gauge Theories” Plenary talk presented at the 9th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2020), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 2020.09.4-12 3. ”Vacuum Restructuring in Finite Geometries: Nonperturbative Casimir Effects in Lattice Gauge Theories” Plenary talk presented at the Asia-Pacific Symposium for Lattice Field Theory (APLAT 2020), Tokyo, Japan; 2020.08.04-07

4. ”Equilibrium and near-equilibrium dynamics of proteins: Eﬀective ﬁeld theory approach” Plenary talk presented at EUTOPIA: Second meeting of the European Topology interdisciplinary Initiative, San Sebastian, Spain; 2019.11.03-07

5. ”Conformal magnetic effect at the edge”, Plenary talk at Quantum Connections in Sweden 7: Quantum Topology and Time 24-28 June 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. 6. ”Nonperturbative Casimir Effects: Structure of gauge theories vacuum in finite systems” Invited Lecture at RCNP Osaka University, 1 April 2019, Osaka, Japan 7. ”Nonperturbative Casimir Effects: Structure of gauge theories vacuum in finite systems”, Invited Lecture at Nordita Niels Bohr Colloquium, 19 February 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. 7

8. ”Nonperturbative Casimir Eﬀects: Structure of gauge theories vacuum in ﬁnite systems” Invited lecture at Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris 31 October 2018, Paris, France

9. ”Gauge Theory: Protein Topology and Dynamics” Plenary talk at Symposium ”Biomembranes-18”, 1 - 05 October 2018, Dolgoprudniy, Russia 10. ”Lattice gauge theories as a Numerical Laboratory for study of strongly correlated systems with boundaries”, Plenary talk at Quantum Connections in Sweden 3: Quantum Topology and Time 25-29 June 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. 11. ”Protein secondary and tertiary structure study within a gauge ﬁeld theory approach” Plenary talk at Workshop Physics and Biology of Proteins 12-30 June 2017, Natal, Brazil 12. ”Integrability and Chaos in Proteins” Invited open Lecture at the Beijing Institute of Technology, 12 November 2017, Beijing,China

13. ”Low temperature QCD phase structure study within lattice gauge ﬁeld theories” Invited lecture at Ecole Normale Superiore, Paris 7 December 2017, Paris, France 8

Publications for the last 5 years (peer-reviewed)

[1] A.Begun, S.Liubimov, A.Molochkov, A.J.Niemi “On topology and knotty entanglement in protein folding”, PLoS ONE 16(1): e0244547 (2021), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244547 [2] D. L. Boyda, M. N. Chernodub, N. V. Gerasimeniuk, V. A. Goy, S. D. Liubimov and A. V. Molochkov, “Finding the deconfinement temperature in lattice Yang-Mills theories from outside the scaling window with machine learning,” [arXiv:2009.10971 [hep-lat]] Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) no.1, 014509, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.014509 [3] M. N. Chernodub, H. Erbin, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Topological defects and confinement with machine learning: the case of monopoles in compact electrodynamics,” [arXiv:2006.09113 [hep-lat]]. Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 5, 054501, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.054501 [4] M. N. Chernodub, H. Erbin, I. V. Grishmanovskii, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Casimir effect with machine learning,” [arXiv:1911.07571 [hep-lat]]. Phys.Rev.Res. 2 (2020) 3, 033375, doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033375 [5] K. Kachlishvili, A. Korneev, L. Maisuradze, J. Liu, H. Scheraga, A. Molochkov, P. Senet, A. Niemi, and G. Maisuradze, “New Insights into Folding, Misfolding, and Nonfolding Dynamics of a WW Domain,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 19, 3855-3872 doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c00628 [6] V. Braguta, M. Chernodub, A. Y. Kotov, A. Molochkov and A. Nikolaev, “Finite-density QCD transition in a magnetic background field,” Phys. Rev. D 100 (2019) no.11, 114503 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.114503 [arXiv:1909.09547 [hep-lat]]. [7] A. Begun, A. Molochkov and A. Niemi, “Protein tertiary structure and the myoglobin phase diagram,” Sci Rep 9, 10819 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-47317-y [8] M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Conformal magnetic effect at the edge: a numerical study in scalar QED,” Phys. Lett. B 789, 556 (2019) doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.01.003 [arXiv:1811.05411 [hep-th]]. [9] M. Wakayama, V. G. Bornyakov, D. L. Boyda, V. A. Goy, H. Iida, A. V. Molochkov, A. Nakamura and V. I. Zakharov, “Lee-Yang zeros in lattice QCD for searching phase transition points,” Phys. Lett. B 793 (2019), 227-233 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.04.040 [arXiv:1802.02014 [hep-lat]]. [10] M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Phase structure of lattice Yang-Mills theory on T2 R2,” Phys. Rev. D 99, no. 7, 074021 (2019) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.074021 × [arXiv:1811.01550 [hep-lat]]. [11] M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy, A. V. Molochkov and H. H. Nguyen, “Casimir Ef- fect in Yang-Mills Theory in D=2+1,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, no. 19, 191601 (2018) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.191601 [arXiv:1805.11887 [hep-lat]]. [12] V. G. Bornyakov, V. V. Braguta, E.-M. Ilgenfritz, A. Y. Kotov, A. V. Molochkov and A. A. Nikolaev, “Observation of deconfinement in a cold dense quark medium,” JHEP 1803, 161 (2018) doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2018)161 [arXiv:1711.01869 [hep-lat]]. [13] M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Casimir effect and deconfinement phase transition,” Phys. Rev. D 96, no. 9, 094507 (2017) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.094507 [arXiv:1709.02262 [hep-lat]]. [14] M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Nonperturbative Casimir effect and monopoles: compact Abelian gauge theory in two spatial dimensions,” Phys. Rev. D 95, no. 7, 074511 (2017) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.074511 [arXiv:1703.03439 [hep-lat]]. 9

[15] D. L. Boyda, V. G. Bornyakov, V. A. Goy, V. I. Zakharov, A. V. Molochkov, A. Nakamura and A. A. Nikolaev, “Novel approach to deriving the canonical generating functional in lattice QCD at a finite chemical potential,” JETP Lett. 104, no. 10, 657 (2016) [Pisma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 104, no. 10, 673 (2016)]. doi:10.1134/S0021364016220069 [16] V. A. Goy, V. Bornyakov, D. Boyda, A. Molochkov, A. Nakamura, A. Nikolaev and V. Za- kharov, “Sign problem in finite density lattice QCD,” PTEP 2017, no. 3, 031D01 (2017) doi:10.1093/ptep/ptx018 [arXiv:1611.08093 [hep-lat]]. [17] V. G. Bornyakov, D. L. Boyda, V. A. Goy, A. V. Molochkov, A. Nakamura, A. A. Niko- laev and V. I. Zakharov, “New approach to canonical partition functions computation in Nf = 2 lattice QCD at finite baryon density,” Phys. Rev. D 95, no. 9, 094506 (2017) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094506 [arXiv:1611.04229 [hep-lat]]. [18] M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy and A. V. Molochkov, “Casimir effect on the lattice: U(1) gauge theory in two spatial dimensions,” Phys. Rev. D 94, no. 9, 094504 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.094504 [arXiv:1609.02323 [hep-lat]]. [19] V. V. Braguta, E.-M. Ilgenfritz, A. Y. Kotov, A. V. Molochkov and A. A. Nikolaev, “Study of the phase diagram of dense two-color QCD within lattice simulation,” Phys. Rev. D 94, no. 11, 114510 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.114510 [arXiv:1605.04090 [hep-lat]]. [20] V. V. Braguta, V. A. Goy, E.-M. Ilgenfritz, A. Y. Kotov, A. V. Molochkov, M. Muller- Preussker and B. Petersson, “Two-Color QCD with Non-zero Chiral Chemical Potential,” JHEP 1506, 094 (2015) doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2015)094 [arXiv:1503.06670 [hep-lat]].