Vladimir Zhdankin, Ph.D.

Vladimir’s research is at the interface between plasma physics and astrophysics. He uses numerical simulations and analytical theory to model basic physical processes, such as turbulence and instabilities, in high-energy astrophysical regimes. Much of his work involves building an understanding of the kinetic processes responsible for heating, nonthermal particle acceleration, and radiation emission in collisionless plasmas.

Vladimir received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015, and had postdoctoral appointments at University of Colorado at Boulder (2015-2018) and Princeton University as a NASA Einstein postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2021, before his appointment as a Flatiron Research Fellow (2021-2023). He then returned to UW-Madison as an assistant professor of physics.