Full Name: Violetta V. Sagun

Position: Researcher

Office: D.42 - Centre for Physics of the University of Coimbra (CFisUC)

Phone: (+351) 239 410 616

Email: violetta.sagun (at) uc.pt

ORCID:  0000-0001-5854-1617

Degrees: 
- Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine (2009) (B.Sc) in Physics;

- Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine (2011)  (M.Sc) in Astrophysics;

- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine (2015) Ph. D. (C. Sc.) in Theoretical Physics.

 

Employment:
2011 - 2014   Ph.D. Student, BITP, Kyiv, Ukraine
21.02.2015 - 30.11.2016 Junior Scientific Researcher, BITP, Kyiv, Ukraine
01.12.2016 - 30.11.2017 Post-Doctoral FCT Fellowship, Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofı́sica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade
de Lisboa, Portugal
01.12.2017 - 31.01.2018 Junior Scientific Researcher, BITP, Kyiv, Ukraine
01.02.2018 - 31.12.2018 Post-Doctoral FCT Fellowship Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofı́sica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade
de Lisboa, Portugal
04.01.2019 - present day Researcher, CFisUC - Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Portugal

 

Main Research Interests:

• Neutron, hybrid and quark stars

• Strongly interacting matter equation of state

• High-energy nuclear collisions

• Dark matter

 

List of publications 

INSPIRE HEP profile


Awards:

  •  2013 CERN scholarship for the best PhD students.
  • 2014 Prize of the V. P. Shelest Fund for young scientists for work “The statistical multifragmentation model for liquid-gas phase transition with a compressible nuclear liquid ”.
  • 2014 Prize of the V. P. Shelest Fund for young scientists for work “Realistic models of the hadron-nuclear interaction and strongly interaction matter properties under the extream conditions ”.
  • 2015 Eugene P. Wigner diploma for the best “New Talents” contribution “On chemical (non)equilibrium of strange hadrons at freeze-out stage of nuclear-nuclear collisions” during The International School of Subnuclear Physics “53rd Course: The future of our physics including new frontier”, Erice, Italy.
  • 2015 First Prize for the presentation “New Irregularities at Chemical Freeze-out of Hadrons” in the Nuclear and Plasma Physics Section on The International Young Scientists Forum (YSF-2015), Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
  • 2015 Best paper of the year in Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett. journal for the article “Thermodynamically anomalous regions as a mixed phase signal” published in Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett. 12, No 2, pp. 238 - 245 (2015).
  • 2016 Winner of Ukraine Presidential Scholarship for young scientists.
  • 2016 First Prize winner for the poster “Irregularities at chemical freeze-out of hadrons as an evidence of quark-gluon plasma formation” on The XII Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 August - 4 September, 2016.
  • 2017 Winner of Ukraine Presidential Scholarship for young scientists.
  • 2017 Best talk “Probing the neutron stars interior within the realistic equation of state” on the Young Scientists Conference “Problems of Theoretical Physics”, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 12 - 14, 2017.
  • 2018 Nuclear Physics A Young Scientist Award for the best theory talk “Neutron stars meet constraints from high and low energy nuclear physics” at Quark Matter 2018, Venice, Italy, May 13 - 19, 2018.

 

List of organized conferences:

  • September 2013 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at School-Practice on High Energy Physics “Lattice QCD and QCD Phenomenology”, BITP, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 9-13, 2013.
  • December 2013 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the V International Conference “Modern problems of Theoretical Physics”, BITP, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 24-27, 2013.
  • November 2014 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the VI International Conference “Modern problems of Theoretical Physics”, BITP, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 25-27, 2014.
  • July 2016 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the 5-th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2016), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, July 6 - 14, 2016.
  • August 2016 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the XII Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 August - 4 September, 2016.
  • August 2017 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the 6-th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2017), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, July 17 - 29, 2017
  • December 2018 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the International workshop “Dark matter and stars (IWDMS2018)”, CENTRA, Lisbon, Portugal, December 11 - 12, 2018
  • September 2019 Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the “XIX National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA)”, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, September 12 - 13, 2019