1998-Present	Associate Research Professor at Physics Department of University of Nevada, Reno
1995-1998	Postdoctoral Research Associate at Physics Department of University of Nevada, Reno
1994	Visiting Scholar, Physics Department of University of Nevada, Reno (May-December)
1993	Guest worker at Nihon University in Japan (December)
1989-1994	Senior Scientific Researcher at Institute of Technical Glass, Moscow, Russia; Head of Research Group
1982-1989	Junior Scientific Researcher at the Technical Institute “Volna”, Moscow, Russia
1979-1982	Graduate student of the Physical Lebedev Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

International Activity Grant, UNR foundation, Reno, Nevada, 1999

International SOROS Long-Term Research Grant, “Study of the Influence of Suprathermal Electron Beams on Linear Spectra and Polarization of Soft X-ray Radiated by Laboratory Plasma Sources” International Science Foundation, Washington, DC (1994)

International SOROS Short-Term Research Grant, 1993.

Theoretical plasma and atomic physics; modeling of radiation from HED z-pinch and ultrashort-pulse laser plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, and from Electron Beam Ion Trap; theory of line polarization and modeling of polarized spectra produced by different radiation sources; theoretical study of Z-pinch plasma implosions through extensive computations: development of models and codes to understand plasma evolution in time and in space and plasma anisotropy through polarization spectroscopy, and to diagnose high-energetic electron beams and magnetic fields in HED plasmas.

A. Safronova, V. Kantsyrev, N. Ouart, F. Yilmaz, D. Fedin, A. Astanovitsky, B. LeGalloudec, S. Batie, D. Brown, V. Nalajala, I. Shrestha, S. Pokala, T. Cowan, B. Jones, C. Coverdale, C. Deeney, P.D. LePell, D. Jobe, D. Nielson. “Spectroscopic modeling of radiation from Cu and Mo X-pinches produced on the UNR 1 MA Zebra Generator”, JQSRT 99, pp. 560-571 (2006).

V. Kantsyrev, A. Safronova, V. Ivanov, D. Fedin, R. Mancini, A. Astanovitsky, B. LeGalloudec, S. Batie, D. Brown, V. Nalajala, I. Shrestha, S. Pokala, N. Ouart, F. Yilmaz, A. Clinton, M. Johnson, T. Cowan, B. Jones, C. Coverdale, C. Deeney, P.D. LePell, D. Jobe, D. Nielson. “Radiative properties of asymmetric and symmetric X-pinches with two and four wires recently produced on the UNR 1 MA Zebra Generator”, JQSRT 99, pp. 349-362 (2006).

A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyrev, D.A. Fedin, G. Osborne, M.F. Yilmaz, T. Hoppe, J.D. Douglass, R.D. McBride, M.D. Mitchell, L.M. Maxson, D.A. Hammer, “Spectroscopic and imaging study of combined W and Mo X-pinches at 1 MA Z-pinch generators”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 34, pp. 2256-2262 (2006).

U.I. Safronova, A.S. Safronova, P. Beiersdorfer, “Multipole (E1, M1, E2, M2, E3, M3) transition wavelengths and rates between 3l-15l’ excited and ground states in nickel-like ions”, J. Phys. B 39, pp. 4491-4513 (2006).

U.I. Safronova, A.S. Safronova, S. Hamasha, P. Beiersdorfer “Relativistic many-body calculations of multipole (E1, M1, E2, M2, E3, M3) transition wavelengths and rates between 3l4l” excited and ground states in nickel-like ions”, Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables 92, pp. 47-104 (2006).

S. B. Hansen, A. S. Safronova, P. D. LePell, J. Apruzese, C. Coverdale, C. Deeney, K.B. Fournier, U.I. Safronova, “Analysis of radially resolved spectra and potential for lasing in Mo wire array Z pinches” , Phys. Plasmas 12, 094502 (2005).

P.D. Lepell, S.B. Hansen, A.S. Shlyaptseva, C. Coverdale, C. Deeney, J.P. Apruzese, K.B. Fournier, U.I. Safronova, “Axial and temporal gradients in Mo wire array Z pinches”, Phys. Plasmas 12, 032701 (2005).

S.B. Hansen and A.S. Shlyaptseva, “Effects of the electron energy distribution function on modeled x-ray spectra”, Phys. Rev. E 70, 036402 (2004).

S.B. Hansen , A.S. Shlyaptseva, S.A. Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko, D.B. Sinars, K.M. Chandler, and D.A. Hammer, “Analysis of L-shell line spectra with 50-ps resolution from Mo X-pinch plasmas”, Phys. Rev. E 70, 026402 (2004).

P. Neill, C. Harris, A.S. Safronova, S. Hamasha, S. Hansen, U.I. Safronova, and P. Beiersdorfer, “The study of X-ray M-shell spectra of W ions from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Electron Beam Ion Trap”, Can. J. Phys. 82, pp. 931-942 (2004).

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