Andrey V. Volotka Priv.-Doz. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Helmholtz Institute Jena, Fro¨belstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany Phone: +49 3641 947-618 e-mail: [email protected] www.atomic-theory.uni-jena.de

Main fields of research

• Quantum electrodynamics of ions and atoms • Probe of fundamental interactions and symmetries in atomic physics • Multi-photon processes in atoms • Scattering and collisional processes with atoms

Education June 2000 B.Sc., Summa Cum Laude, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Thesis: “Nuclear size correction to the hyperfine splitting in hydrogenlike ions”, Supervisor: Vladimir M. Shabaev Feb. 2003 M.Sc., Summa Cum Laude, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Thesis: “Some effects of the hyperfine interaction in hydrogen- and heliumlike ions”, Supervisor: Vladimir M. Shabaev June 2006 Ph.D. (Candidate of Science), St. Petersburg State University, Russia Thesis: “QED and interelectronic-interaction corrections to the transition probabilities in multicharged ions”, Supervisor: Vladimir M. Shabaev

Nov. 2006 Dr. rer. nat., Magna Cum Laude, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Thesis: “High-precision QED calculations of the hyperfine structure in hydrogen and transition rates in multicharged ions”, Supervisors: Ru¨diger Schmidt and Gu¨nter Plunien Nov. 2014 Dr. rer. nat. habil., Dresden University of Technology, Germany Thesis: “Many-electron QED effects in highly charged ions”, Advisor: Walter T. Strunz

Employment history 2000 – 2004 Student researcher, Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia 08/2004 – 07/2005 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 07/2005 – 02/2010 Research associate, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 10/2008 – 12/2014 Research associate (unpaid appointment), Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia 03/2010 – 06/2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany 07/2010 – 11/2014 Principal investigator (DFG, “Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators”), Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 12/2014 – 06/2015 Research associate, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

1 07/2015 – now Senior scientist (group leader), Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany

Short-term research visits 2001, 2002, 2003 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 2004 Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Prizes and Stipends 2002, 2003, 2004 Scholar awards of St. Petersburg Government 2003, 2004 Scholar awards of Soros Science Educational Program 2003 Scholar grant of Russian Ministry of Education and Science 2003 – 2004 Doctoral scholarship of the President of Russian Federation 2004 Doctoral scholarship of “Dynasty” foundation 2004 – 2005 Research fellowship of German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ) Publications 64 peer-reviewed publications, including 10 in Physical Review Letters. Total of 700+ citations; h-index = 17. Main publications: • Screened QED corrections in lithiumlike heavy ions in the presence of magnetic fields, A. V. Volotka, D. A. Glazov, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and G. Plunien, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033005 (2009) • Test of many-electron QED effects in the hyperfine splitting of heavy high-Z ions, A. V. Volotka, D. A. Glazov, O. V. Andreev, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and G. Plunien, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 073001 (2012) • Many-electron QED corrections to the g factor of lithiumlike ions, A. V. Volotka, D. A. Glazov, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and G. Plunien, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253004 (2014) • Nuclear polarization study: New frontiers for tests of QED in heavy highly charged ions, A. V. Volotka and G. Plunien, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 023002 (2014) • Nuclear excitation by two-photon electron transition, A. V. Volotka, A. Surzhykov, S. Trotsenko, G. Plunien, Th. St¨ohlker, and S. Fritzsche, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243001 (2016); Editors’ Suggestion Invited talks • 3rd SPARC Topical Workshop, Paris, France, 2007 • SPARC Theory Group Meeting, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, 2007 • 426th WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Bad-Honnef, Germany, 2009 • 5th SPARC Collaboration Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009 • 16th Internat. Conf. on Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI 2012), Heidelberg, Germany, 2012 • 11th European Conf. on Atoms, Molecules and Photons (ECAMP11), Aarhus, Denmark, 2013 • Helmholtz Institute Jena & ExtreMe Matter Institute Workshop, Jena, Germany, 2013 • MITP Workshop on Low-Energy Precision Physics, Mainz, Germany, 2013 • Internat. Conf. on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems (PSAS 2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014 • 81th Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society (81. DPG-Tagung), Mainz, Germany, 2017

• Internat. Conf. on Precision Physics, QED, and Fundamental Interactions, Cargese, Corsica, France, 2017

2 Community engagement and media • University of Jena, Research News, 23 Jan. 2017, “Einblicke ins Atom” also at www.chemie.de and www.analytica-world.com

• Helmholtz Institute Jena, Newsletter, Feb. 2017 , “Insight into nuclear excitations by two-photon electron decay”

Other services • Referee for scientific journals, including Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. A, Comput. Phys. Commun., EPL, Eur. Phys. J. D, Int. J. Quantum Chem., J. Phys. B • Member of the German Physical Society (DPG), since 2010 • Member of the russian “Expert Corps” in the atomic physics, since 2015 • Co-organizer of Seminar of the Helmholtz Institute Jena, 2016 – current • Co-editor of Annual Reports of the Helmholtz Institute Jena, 2016 – current • Co-organizer of Workshop “Atomic Physics with (super) Heavy Atoms and Ions”, together with Th. St¨ohlker and S. Fritzsche, Helmholtz Institute Jena, Oct. 26, 2016

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