2007-Present	Research Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
1999-2007	Associate Research Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
1998-1999	Senior Engineering Instructor, CDMA University, Qualcomm Incorporated
1997-1998	Visiting Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada
1995-1997	Senior Scientist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic
1991-1994	Visiting Scientist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles
1988-1991	Associate Professor of Physics, Moscow State University of Transport, Russia
1986-1988	Assistant Professor of Physics, Moscow State University of Transport, Russia
1977-1986	Research Scientist, Space Research Institute, Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

Oscar Buneman Award for the presentation "Hybrid Simulation of Z-Pinches". International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas, Cape Code (September 2003).

Awarded Fellowship of High Category (6 months), Observatoire de Paris, Department of Space Physics and Simulation, CNRS, Meudon, France (1996).

Elected as External Member of the Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research at UCLA (1995).

Awarded Fellowship of High Category (3 moths), Laboratory of Space Physics and Chemistry, CNRS, Orleans, France (1990).

Theory and simulations of collective phenomena in laboratory and space plasmas, linear analysis and hybrid simulations of Z-pinch instabilities, plasma and hydrodynamic turbulence, laser plasma interactions, collective methods of particle acceleration in space and laboratory plasmas, active space experiments, radiation and propagation of electromagnetic waves.

"Investigation of regimes of wire array implosion on the 1 MA Zebra accelerator" V.V. Ivanov, V.L. Kantsyrev, V.I. Sotnikov, D.A. Fedin, A.L. Astanovitskiy, B. Le Galloudec, V. Nalajala, I. Streshta, T. E. Cowan, C. Coverdale, B. Jones, C. Deeney, P.D. LePell, Investigation of regimes of wire array implosion on the 1 MA Zebra accelerator, Phys. Plasmas, 13, 1 (2006).

"Hybrid simulation of Z-pinches in support of wire array implosion experiments at NTF" V.I. Sotnikov, V.V. Ivanov, T. E. Cowan, J.N. Leboeuf, B.V. Oliver, C. Coverdale, B. Jones, C. Deeney, T.A.Mehlhorn, P.D. LePell, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, Accepted by the Journal of Plasma Physics, August 2006.

"Investigation of Electromagnetic Flute Mode Instability in a High Beta Z-pinch Plasma" V.I. Sotnikov, V.V. Ivanov, T.E. Cowan, J.N. Leboeuf, B.V. Oliver, C. Coverdale, B. Jones, C. Deeney, T. A. Mehlhorn, G. S. Sarkisov and P.D. LePell, , IEEE Transactions in Plasma Science, 34, 5, 2006.

"Excitation of electromagnetic flute modes in the process of interaction of plasma flow with inhomogeneous magnetic field,"V.I. Sotnikov, R. Presura, V.V. Ivanov, T.E. Cowan, J.N. Leboeuf, B.V. Oliver, Accepted by the Astrophysics and Space Physics, 2006.

"Dynamics of mass transport and magnetic fields in low-wire-number-array Z-pinches", V.V. Ivanov, V.I. Sotnikov, G.S. Sarkisov, T.E. Cowan, S.N. Bland, et al., Accepted by the Physical Review Letters, 97, 125001, 2006.

"Particle-in-cell guiding center models of ion velocity space shell instabilities in space and fusion plasmas", J.N. Leboeuf, M. Ashour-Abdalla, J.M. Boqued, N. Cornilleau-Wihrlen, D. Schriver, V.Sotnikov, Particle-in-cell guiding center models of ion velocity space shell instabilities in space and fusion plasmas, Accepted by the Journal of Plasma Physics, 2006. "Investigation of magnetic fields in 1-MA wire arrays and X-pinches", V. Ivanov, G.S. Sarkisov, P.J. Laca, V.I. Sotnikov, V.L. Kantsyrev, et al., , Accepted by the IEEE Transactions in Plasma Science, 2006.

"Decay Instability of a Laser Pulse During Perpendicular Propagation in Magnetoactive Plasma V.B. Krasovitskiy, V.G. Dorofeenko, V.A.Turikov, V.I. Sotnikov", Decay Instability of a Laser Pulse During Perpendicular Propagation in Magnetoactive Plasma, Plasma Physics Reports, V. 32, pp. 26-32, January, 2006.

"Collisional Relaxation of Super Thermal Electrons Generated by Relativistic Laser Pulses in Dense Plasma", A.J. Kemp, Y. Sentoku, V. Sotnikov, S.C. Wolks, Accepted by the Physical Review Letters, 2006.

"Hybrid simulation of collisionless shock formation in support of laboratory experiments at UNR", V.I. Sotnikov, H. Ruhl. R. Presura, T. Cowan, J.N. Leboeuf, P. Hellinger and P.Travnicek, , Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 298, Numbers 1-2, 369-374, 2005.

"Laboratory Simulation of Magnetospheric Shocks", R. Presura, V. V. Ivanov, Y. Sentoku, V. I. Sotnikov, P. J. Laca, N. Le Galloudec, A. Kemp, R. Mancini, H. Ruhl, A. L. Astanovitskiy, T. E. Cowan, T. Ditmire, C. Chiu, W. Horton, P. Valanju, S. Keely, , Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 298, Numbers 1-2, 299-303, 2005.

"Self-organization observed in numerical simulations of a hard-core diffuse Z-pinch" V. Makhin, R.E.Siemon, B.S.Bauer, A. Esaulov, I.R. Lindemuth, V.I. Sotnikov, D.D. Ryutov, P.T. Sheehey, "Self-organization observed in numerical simulations of a hard-core diffuse Z-pinch", Physics of Plasmas, 12, 042312, April 2005.

"Linear analysis of magnetic and flow shear stabilization of Z-pinch instabilities L. Wanex, V.I. Sotnikov, J.N. Leboeuf, Linear analysis of magnetic and flow shear stabilization of Z-pinch instabilities, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 042101 (2005).

"Electron cyclotron heating by whistler waves generated during the interaction of a laser pulse with a magnetized plasma", V.I. Sotnikov, Y. Sentoku, V.B. Krasovitskiy, , Physics of Plasmas , 12, 1 (2005).

"Hybrid simulation of the Z-pinch instabilities for profiles generated in the process of wire array implosion in the Saturn pulsed power generator", V. I. Sotnikov, J. N. Leboeuf, C. Deeney, C.A. Coverdale, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, and V. Fiala, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 092701 (2005).


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