Viktoria Moskalenko
Their stories demonstrate that science makes no distinction between young men and women; what matters most is interest, perseverance, and the desire to pursue it. The laboratory supports its young staff members in their scientific development. DLNP JINR invites bachelors, masters, specialists, and postgraduate students for internships and to work on their final qualification theses. Information about the program is available on our website.
Our first story is the story of Viktoria Moskalenko, junior researcher of Sector 2 (Calorimetric and Hardware-Software Systems for Processing and Analysis of Physics Information) of the Department of Multiple Hadron Processes.
"I studied at Tomsk State University, where I graduated with honors from the bachelor's and master's programs at the Faculty of Radiophysics. Currently, I am a postgraduate student in the Department of Radio Electronics at the same university. My scientific work at the university has been closely tied to terahertz radiation, as well as the methods and instruments for its detection.
During the bachelor's program, all students at my university completed industrial internships, and many were looking for companies and institutes willing to host them. Some of my coursemates did their internships at JINR and later got jobs there. I first heard about this place from them.
Closer to the end of my master's program, I started thinking about work outside the university. A friend of mine, who moved to Dubna after completing his bachelor's degree, informed me about a vacancy for an engineer in the DLNP Sector of Calorimetric and Hardware-Software Systems for Processing and Analysis of Physics Information and suggested I go for an interview. A month later, at the end of 2022, I was already signing my employment documents. Since December 2024, I have been working as a junior researcher in the DLNP Department of Multiple Hadron Processes.
The main focus of my professional activity is electronics: circuit modeling, design, tuning and assembly of electronics, and testing of prototypes. Currently, I am involved in a project to create low-noise, radiation-hard preamplifiers based on discrete GaN (GaAs) elements for SiPMs, as well as research into their radiation hardness.
At the university, my scientific supervisor is Aleksandr Vladimirovich Badyin, Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) and Associate Professor of the Department of Radio Electronics at the Faculty of Radiophysics of TSU. At the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, my work is supervised by Yuri Ivanovich Davydov, head of the Department of Multiple Hadron Processes. I once heard a phrase that stuck with me: 'Science is an amazing world, full of discoveries and opportunities, and you have every right to take your place in it.' I would really like to wish all girls dreaming of a career in science courage and confidence in their abilities, success in finding like-minded people, and enjoyment in their work. After all, science is not only about achievements but also about the process!"
