Denys Poda's Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, The Faculty of Physics, Nuclear Physics Department (Kyiv, Ukraine): September 1999 - June 2004. Fields of study: general physics, nuclear, particle and high energy physics.
Post-graduate courses in Institute for Nuclear Research of NAS Ukraine: November 2004 - November 2007. Fields of study: experimental nuclear, particle and high energy physics.

M.Sc. with distinction (nuclear and particle physics) Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Kyiv, 2004 (Thesis title: "Optimization of detector based on cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator"). Advisor: Ph.D. F.A. Danevich.
Ph.D. (nuclear, particle and high energy physics), Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv, 2009 (Thesis title: "Double beta decay of ^{64, 70}Zn and ^{180, 186}W isotopes"). Advisor: Dr.Sci. F.A. Danevich.

December 2002 to June 2004: Technician in the Lepton Physics Department (LPD) of the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Kyiv, Ukraine.
July 2004 to October 2007: Engineer in the LPD INR, Kyiv, Ukraine.
November 2007 to February 2008: Senior Engineer in the LPD INR, Kyiv, Ukraine.
March 2008 to October 2009: Junior Scientific Researcher in the LPD INR, Kyiv, Ukraine.
November 2009 to present: Scientific Researcher in the LPD INR, Kyiv, Ukraine.

from 2006 to 2009: I worked one month per year in Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Assergi, Italy) and Dipartimento di Fisica Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Rome, Italy) within DAMA Collaboration (full time: 4 months)
May 2010 to present: Post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (INFN, Italy).

from 2007 to present: Member of the Council of Young Scientists of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the NASU.

Annual Prize of President of Ukraine for young scientist (2010, together with S.S. Nagorny, O.G. Polischuk and S.S. Yurchenko) for the cycle of experimental studies "Rare nuclear and subnuclear processes".

Non-accelerator nuclear and particle physics (search for double beta decay; investigation rare alpha and beta decays);
Astroparticle physics (development of detectors to search for dark matter);
Development of low-radioactive technique and low-background scintillation detectors;
Scintillation counting, HP Ge gamma spectrometry, and data analysis.

I have contributed so far to the activities of the group headed by Dr.Sci. F.A. Danevich at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine) in various collaborations and in the Solotvina Underground Laboratory. In particular, since 2005 I have been participating to the collaboration efforts to realize various kinds of highly radiopure scintillators and small scale experiments in the DAMA/R&D set-up and in the Laboratory of Ge detectors at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the INFN. Many achievements have already been reached. At present, I am taking a part in the experiment with radiopure enriched ¹¹⁶CdWO₄ scintillators to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹¹⁶Cd.

Investigation of two neutrino double beta decay of ¹⁰⁰Mo to the first excited 0⁺ level of ¹⁰⁰Ru and determination its half-life with a better accuracy than in other measurements.
The best half-lives limits on the double beta processes in ⁶⁴Zn, ⁷⁰Zn, ¹⁰⁶Cd, ¹⁰⁸Cd, ¹¹⁴Cd, ¹⁸⁰W, and ¹⁸⁶W isotopes.
Investigation of four-fold forbidden beta decay of ¹¹³Cd and determination its half-life with a better accuracy than in other measurements.
Development and study of many inorganic crystal scintillators (tungstates and molybdates) as detectors to search for double beta decay and dark matter. Development of isotopically enriched ¹⁰⁶CdWO₄, ¹¹⁶CdWO₄, and Ca¹⁰⁰MoO₄ crystal scintillators to search for double beta processes.