The people behind the research.

Nikita leads the institute’s research and wrote its papers on the Bondi dipole and on wormhole dynamics. The work sits where general relativity meets high-performance computing: numerical relativity on GPUs, with CUDA and HPC clusters, and the analysis and visualisation of what the simulations produce. Nikita is also a researcher at Gravity Frontiers.

The path here started in aerospace engineering at the Moscow Aviation Institute, with a diploma project on a lunar CubeSat driven by its own electric rocket engine, and led to Roscosmos, to the power system of an electric propulsion engine for deep-space travel. A master’s in applied mathematics and physics at MIPT followed, in the theoretical physics department at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna: gravity first, then data analysis for the international DUNE neutrino experiment, then superconducting spintronics, where Nikita made an existing numerical method at least 60 times faster while improving its precision.